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   From: d@ray   
      
   New York, New York – Peaceful demonstrators at two different New York   
   universities that opposed the Israeli-led genocide of Gaza were subjected   
   to a brutal NYPD crackdown Tuesday evening.   
      
   The paramilitary incursion, which saw the use of armored vehicles, shields,   
   and batons, came just eight days after Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan   
   Greenblatt demanded protests be shut down to keep Jewish kids “safe” from   
   those opposing mass murder.   
      
   “Jewish students don’t feel safe on campus because they are not,” said   
   Greenblatt in a video to his personal X, formerly Twitter account last   
   week.   
      
   “We need President Minouche Shafik to do three things. Number one, we need   
   NYPD back on this campus or bring in the National Guard,” he continued.   
   “Number two, no masks on campus…And number three, the students who behave   
   this way need to be suspended immediately.”   
      
   On Tuesday, Greenblatt’s words appeared to echo as hordes of New York’s   
   finest converged to shut down nonviolent student protests at both Columbia   
   University and the City College of New York. Using armored vehicles   
   equipped with ladders, officers huddled in formation and forcibly evicted   
   demonstrators encamped inside Columbia’s Hamilton Hall.   
      
   The operation kicked off late Tuesday night, and culminated in the arrest   
   of nearly 300 people who opposed Israel’s war on Gaza. At Columbia, 119   
   arrests were made over minor charges, while 173 were arrested at CCNY.   
      
   At a news conference celebrating the crackdown, New York’s controversial   
   Black Mayor, Eric Adams, blamed an uptick in anti-Israeli rhetoric on   
   alleged “outside agitators” whose goal was to “radicalize young   
   people.”   
      
   Rebecca Weiner, the NYPD’s Jewish Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and   
   Counterterrorism—whose grandfather helped develop nuclear weapons later   
   used to obliterate Japan at the end of World War 2—said the crackdown was   
   necessary after individuals were spotted posing an “elevated concern.”   
      
   Shocking videos of the military-style assault quickly went viral on social   
   media, depicting scenes of armored shock troops clambering into the   
   school’s windows via a mobile “siege tower.” Officers were said to have   
   set   
   up a security cordon four blocks around Columbia University, using pepper   
   spray to neutralize those attempting to stop busloads of demonstrators from   
   being transported to central booking.   
      
   By the night’s end, masked members of the NYPD’s “counterterrorism”   
   unit at   
   CCNY placed a neighborhood on total lockdown, commandeering civilian buses   
   to facilitate the mass arrests of students. According to X/Twitter user   
   Jeremy Loffredo, the officers would later use the same buses for their own   
   transportation needs.   
      
   “This entire city-wide militarized operation was in response to college   
   students allegedly expressing “hateful” and “antisemitic” rhetoric   
   [hate   
   speech],” he commented.   
      
   Columbia University, like many prestigious American schools, has come under   
   fire from Jewish power figures for a perceived failure in raking in   
   anti-Israel rhetoric on campus. Columbia had previously escaped scrutiny,   
   however, thanks to rules that prevented pro-Palestine protestors from   
   acting unless they gave the school ten days’ notice.   
      
   When students defied the new rules and set up a pro-Palestine encampment   
   anyway, the school quickly became the focus of Zionist interests, which   
   triggered a site visit by Greenblatt.   
      
   Greenblatt’s ADL has waged war on growing pro-Palestine activism on   
   campuses across the country. Leaked audio obtained from a clandestine ADL   
   meeting late last month revealed the organization’s new report card system   
   for so-called “antisemitism,” which includes plans to launch massive   
   litigation campaigns against universities that fail to meet up to certain   
   rhetorical standards.   
      
   “Why do these groups get to promote Hamas propaganda?” Greenblatt can be   
   heard in the leaked audio. “We want to cast a bright light on these groups.   
   I think what they’re doing is a breach of the criminal code.”   
      
   Taking cues from the ADL and other Zionist interest groups, mainstream   
   politicians in states like Texas, California, and Florida have turned   
   student protests into veritable battlegrounds, using accusations of   
   “antisemitism” as the trigger. Republicans like Tom Cotton, Greg Abbott,   
   Josh Hawley, and others have emerged from the unrest, appearing all too   
   eager to flex state power to repress the First Amendment rights of their   
   own citizens.   
      
   The alarmingly widespread disregard for constitutional protections has   
   since sparked renewed debates on free expression and the legitimacy of the   
   American empire as a whole.   
      
   White Civil rights activist and staunch opponent of the state of Israel,   
   Mike Peinovich, used the opportunity to remind followers that heavy-handed   
   policing by the NYPD was nonexistent during the 2020 summer of racial   
   reckoning. He also suggested that operations like these were just part of   
   an overall strategy to make support of Palestine a forbidden subject in the   
   leftist milieu.   
      
   “Look at the tactics the NYPD is using. Tactics like this were never   
   deployed against BLM riots which were far more widespread and far more   
   violent,” said Peinovich on X/Twitter. “This began as a campus sit-in, and   
   the police and Jewish agitators have provoked all of the violence. This is   
   Jewish privilege.”   
      
   “From the perspective of Jews, these campus Palestine protests are just as   
   unacceptable as White Nationalism…That is why the same level of force is   
   being used, and they will follow up with similar legal and social   
   punishments,” he commented.   
      
   “We are about to see whether leftists are really better activists than   
   right-wingers or whether this appearance is purely the result of system   
   approval. When leftists engage in non-system-approved actions, will they   
   fall victim to the same systemic traps? I honestly don’t know,” he said.   
      
   As Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Gaza continues into 2024,   
   civil unrest tied to the conflict has only exploded internationally, with   
   no clear signs of it slowing down. At the time of press, more than 34,535   
   Palestinians are believed to have been killed from Israeli war strikes and   
   incursions, many of them innocent women and children. Additionally, 77,704   
   have been wounded.   
      
   To make matters worse, the Biden administration is currently mulling over a   
   strategy to relocate thousands of Palestinians to the US homeland, in a   
   move said to provide a “permanent safe haven” for refugees forced out of   
   their native homeland by Israeli Defense Forces.   
      
      
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