BREAKING: Students forced to exit Kirkland Hall, three arrested and 16 suspended

Students were escorted out under the guise of being arrested at approximately 6:34 a.m. CDT, sit-in to continue on steps of Kirkland.

By Aaditi Lele, Katherine Oung, Rachael Perrotta and Josh Rehders

Mar 27, 2024

Student protestors remain at steps of Kirkland Hall after sit-in broken up inside building (Hustler Multimedia/Josh Rehders).

Josh Rehders

Around 21.5 hours after it began, the sit-in inside Kirkland Hall over students’ ability to vote on the VSG BDS amendment ended at approximately 6:34 a.m. CDT. Two students left at various times last night due to medical or family emergencies, while the remaining 25 students forcibly left — with three being arrested — this morning after being woken up and escorted out by VUPD officers.

The rundown:

All 27 protesting students have left Kirkland Hall. Two left during the night due to medical emergencies and the rest were escorted out by VUPD at approximately 6:34 a.m. CDT. Three students were arrested, but one student had their charges dropped.
Last night, one student protesting outside was arrested after officers saw a shattered window at the building. Another student protesting inside, who had not been suspended, left due to a family emergency.
Students plan to continue protesting outside Kirkland until their demands are met.
At 9 a.m. CDT on March 26, a group of 27 undergraduate protestors from the Vanderbilt Divest Coalition rushed into Kirkland Hall. The students are calling for the administration to allow the student body to vote on an amendment to the VSG Constitution that would prevent VSG funds from being used on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s boycott targets.

UPDATED: March 27, 2024, 8:21 a.m. CDT

The students who were arrested this morning were taken to the Downtown Detention Center by MNDP, according to police records. Three students — senior Devron Burks, first-year Jack Petocz and sophomore Samuel Schulman — were arrested for assault and bodily injury to another, which is classified as a misdemeanor. Petocz is being held at a $2,000 bond, while Schulman and Burks are being held at a $1,000 bond. VDC is asking supporters to donate to their bail fund.

The Hustler reviewed the video released by Vanderbilt administration of students rushing into Kirkland Hall and identified the three students arrested. Schulman and Burks can be seen at the front of the group walking forward to enter Kirkland Hall as the officer attempts to stop them. Petocz can be seen near the back of the group, and does not appear to touch the officer. The officer can be seen shoving Schulman against the door.

Schulman told to The Hustler that the officer put his hands on his and Burks’s necks and that neither he nor Burks put their hands on the officer. The Hustler could not verify this claim due to blurring added to the video released by Vanderbilt administration. The university did not immediately respond to The Hustler’s request for the original, unblurred video.

The student who was arrested on the night of March 26 — being kept anonymous for protection from professional retribution — is currently being held in the Downtown Detention Center without bond for 12 hours, which will expire at 1:30 p.m. CDT today. Their charges are unlisted.

March 27, 2024, 7:42 a.m. CDT

In total, 11 of the original 27 protestors inside Kirkland Hall have not received interim suspension notices as of publication. Of the 16 that received interim suspensions, only three were arrested. Protestors being kept anonymous for protection from professional retribution who participated in the sit-in confirmed that the three arrested students were zip-tied when detained by VUPD and taken in a police vehicle to a police precinct off-campus. It is currently unclear if the students were taken to a VUPD or an MNPD vehicle and precinct.

The protestors state that they are unsure why only three of them were arrested and were originally under the impression that all were going to be arrested for trespassing. Police grabbed the sitting protestors around 5:30 a.m. CDT and told them that they were trespassing. Protesters state that police arrested three students for assault inside and took pictures of everyone’s IDs. In video footage reviewed by The Hustler, officers can be holding the rest of the protestors’ hands behind their backs as they steered them outside. Protesters can be seen asking officers where they will be taken and receiving no response. One student was warned that they could be arrested for “interfering with police business” if they did not leave.

Student protestors congregate outside Kirkland Hall after those sitting-in inside were forced to leave (Hustler Multimedia/Josh Rehders)

The Hustler and external press were not allowed inside Kirkland Hall for the duration of the sit-in.

In addition to the protestor who voluntarily left the building at around 10:45 p.m. CDT for a family emergency, another student voluntarily left the sit-in at around 2 a.m. CDT to seek medical care. The protestor who was said to have been experiencing symptoms of toxic shock syndrome did not leave until forcibly removed.

After those who were sitting in left Kirkland Hall, a crowd that has been continuously rallying outside began chanting on the steps of the building at around 7:10 a.m. CDT, stating that they will not leave until their demands are met. A few of those sitting in joined the rally when forcibly removed from the building.

The Hustler obtained video footage from inside Kirkland Hall taken at 7:44 p.m. CDT on March 26 that depicts Senior Advisor to Student Affairs Randy Tarkington warning students formerly inside Kirkland Hall that not abiding by the policies of interim suspension could affect them in their eventual Student Accountability hearing. Tarkington reports indirectly to Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and said he was tasked with talking to the protestors due to having “a lot of experience with protests.” He claimed he had “no knowledge” of the status of Vanderbilt allowing the VSG BDS referendum and did not agree to protestors’ demands that he send their demands up to other Vanderbilt leaders.

“I can’t give you a guarantee about what’s going to happen. If I could, I would,” Tarkington said.

Tarkington emphasized the importance of an unnamed student protestor accessing medical care and food.

At the time, the students emphasized to Tarkington that they were intent on staying in Kirkland Hall, chanting “We’re not leaving.” Tarkington left the scene during the chants.

This breaking piece will be updated as more information becomes available.

About the Contributors

Aaditi Lele, Former Editorial Director

Aaditi Lele ('24) is majoring in political science and climate science with a minor in South Asian Language and Culture in the College of Arts and Science. She previously served as News Editor. Outside of The Hustler, you can find her crocheting, practicing calligraphy or counting down the days until she can see her dog. She can be reached at [email protected].

Katherine Oung, Data Editor

Katherine Oung ('25) is majoring in political science and computer science and minoring in data science in the College of Arts and Science. They are from West Palm Beach, Fla., and were previously Deputy News Editor and Managing Editor. Katherine enjoys working on freelance journalism projects and making incredibly specific Spotify playlists. They can be reached at [email protected].

Rachael Perrotta, Former Editor-in-Chief

Rachael Perrotta ('24) is from Cranston, R.I., and majored in cognitive studies, political science and communication of science and technology and minored in gender and sexuality studies in Peabody College. She was also previously Senior Advisor and News Editor. If she's not pressing you for a comment, she's probably trying to convince you that she's over 5 feet tall, cheering on the Red Sox or wishing Nashville had a beach. She can be reached at [email protected].

Josh Rehders, Former Photography Director

Josh Rehders ('24) is from Houston and is studying computer science in the School of Engineering. When he is not shooting for The Hustler, Vanderbilt Athletics or freelancing, he enjoys finding new music and good food. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Bronx Guy

8 months ago

I was arrested and jailed in a protest in DC against the Vietnam War. I was treated pretty roughly, but I never thought to complain, because I figured that would probably happen when I tried to occupy a building.

1982 Alum

9 days ago

Reply to Bronx Guy

Well there were sit-ins at various campuses in the United States during the Vietnam war time and plenty of them were not arrested because I remember hearing about it from friends. You may have been arrested in DC (what building?, Was it a school or a government building, it can make a difference) — but that’s not the same experience everyone had.

In fact Vanderbilt had protests during the Vietnam war. I would be interested to know if there were any sit-ins back then and whether Vanderbilt arrested people during them because I highly doubt they did.

Nothing makes people more anxious to arrest people these days in the current bipartisan neocon protection of apartheid and imperial genocide.

Common Sense

Watched the video of students speaking after being escorted out of the building. To clarify, a “sit-in” cannot be described as “We were not there voluntarily, we were being held captive simply because the administration wouldn’t meet our demand.” A sit-in is in fact when you are there voluntarily as a form of protest. It hurts your cause when you cannot use basic terms correctly and makes you all look like whining toddlers.

Fartzo

Babies angry, low-T screeching, lel

Tw Hess

Quoting the article:
–“Protestors being kept anonymous for protection from professional retribution who participated in the sit-in confirmed …”

Why anonymous..?? I would think they would be proud of their participation.

Reply to Tw Hess

Give me a break. There are business people deliberately retaliating against ANY COLLEGE STUDENT who tries to speak opposing genocide or war funding in this era and these scumbags boast they are going to dox and ruin the lives of anybody whose pictures they get a hold of. This is a very intense McCarthy era with very active fascists running about shutting everybody up.

Last edited 9 days ago by 1982 Alum

Dale Everdale

I just hope everybody had fun 🙂

Jesus

Reply to Dale Everdale

From the river to the Sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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VU25

Thank you to everyone who wore their mask and are taking the virus seriously.

Reply to VU25

The masks are to protect anonymity and is a common safety tactic within protests and strikes.

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We will and Palestine will be Free 🇵🇸

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This insurrection is more shameful than January 6.

VU18

On the one hand, a domestic facist putsch. On the other, undergraduates upset about a war abroad.

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Reply to VU18

You mean a genocide

Anonymous

Reply to Jesus

Your use of the word “genocide” is a rhetorical strategy (using emotionally loaded terms) that most educated people easily spot. It is a very weak ploy that has little effect on people who take the issue seriously. Your use of the term to describe the current actions of the IDF in Gaza is inaccurate and lacks substance. For a history of the term and other information, see: https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/what-is-genocide

Reply to Anonymous

It is at the very least a massive ethnic cleansing operation punctuated by episodes of teen boys burning alive in hospital tents which was recently shown in a video from people who could not get any closer from the heat.

Whether you call it genocide or not, a substantial percentage of people have been killed and even more are under the rubble unable to be pulled out. Your glib Protection of warmongers is despicable. We know what you would be doing during the holocaust because you’re doing it now.

I am very sorry for these young people that their efforts to show a conscience is being squashed by people who don’t have one.

They are what’s left of our mindless idiocracy’s conscience. Instead of them what the future holds is people like you throttling speech and criticizing people for wanting an end to mass imperial land piracy operations.

It is certainly not an overreach to call it a apartheid whatever else you want to gripe about regarding the term genocide.

This is not the beginning of the efforts of Israel to obliterate the population of Palestine in order to move in and take the place of the people living there. This has been going on since not only 1948 but particularly picking up in the last 20 years with multiple massacres — Such as the 2014 killing of 2,350 Palestinians as shown in the documentary “Killing Gaza,” found on vimeo.com, A film by the journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal.

There have been a number of operations involved in the ongoing disgusting slaughter of thousands of Palestinians for years.

The reason they took hostages is that for years, Palestinians and in particular teenage boys have been snatched off the streets and imprisoned and tortured for years at a time. Some of the mothers of these young people have been interviewed including by the Israeli native Miko Peled. Hostagetaking was there only way they could think of to get tortured family and friends out of jail. In general young children are snatched off the street if they’re walking on the street at a time Israelis are walking by or notice somebody has thrown a rock in the same general area even though it wouldn’t be the same person who had thrown the rock that gets arrested.

And now after the debunked “baby beheadings” myths That came out the same time as the Rape claims, Israelis have taken to proudly raping a standard procedure in prisons. I will never see the state of Israel in the same way after what they have done the past year. They count on people who only turn on major media propaganda for all their news, but some of us have been keeping up a lot better than that about what’s been going on.

These depraved tactics to pressure Palestinians to leave their homes are lied about by the major media and the Israeli government so our public stay in the dark and they don’t try very hard to inform themselves.

an alumni

Vanderbilt admin has been heavy handed and insensitive for 20+ years; if you want action to be taken generate a lot of negative press both via news media and social network. That is the best approach to get action.

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Jonathan Elihu Burack

Reply to an alumni

The negative press is laughing at these ignoramuses. Check out the Free Press.

Reply to Jonathan Elihu Burack

Also if it’s a failure why tell them so u clearly fear uprising and we won’t stop at all not now not tomorrow not ever

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From the river to the sea Palestine will be free

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And we are mobilizing A24 got it wrong it won’t be maga who throw this nation down the well it will be us .
Morning will come victory is near and nothing will stop us

Morning will come, victory is neat!🇵🇸

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Good morning! Feeling victorious yet?

I applaud those young people for their principaled stand and I hope they keep their courage strong in an era of extreme depravity and corruption by both warmonger neocon parties.

Adam C

Admins love free speech when they’re paying war criminal George W. Bush tens of thousands to give a speech, but they call the cops when students want to vote on a non-binding resolution or have a sit-in. Anyone else remember when they expelled the president of the GSC for engaging in a peaceful divest protest?

Appalling, shameless hypocrisy.

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Reply to Adam C

Amen

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Jim Walker

From the picture they were blocking the entrance so moving them out of the way is understandable. Your right to protest does not have to impede other’s right to move freely. Protest off to the side. There were only a handful anyway.

Reply to Jim Walker

That’s not how a protest works but u clearly don’t agree with them in the first place so why bother acting like it’s about good sport.

MLK didn’t do it off to the side he did it face front or did u forget…. Or do u just simply not care

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Jake

MLK practiced civil disobedience – that’s where you openly and willingly subject yourself to arrest in the belief that the cumulative injustice will win support to the cause. That’s not what these protesters were doing.

MLK never impeded anyone’s freedom of movement. There’s a lot of difference between sitting at a lunch counter and ordering a sandwich and a Coke and not letting people get into a building.

Actually I was alive for this and that is not what happened. Martin Luther King Jr. marched and was involved in being attacked by people with bricks in places like Chicago. He didn’t just sit calmly. He also was a nonviolent person and so were these students. These students are more attended to the sit ins of the Vietnam war than the Martin Luther King protests anyway.

We don’t have anybody with a conscience willing to do anything about speaking up except these kids who are doing the best they can to figure out what they can do to help and all they get is people like you telling them to shut up. If you give a hoot then why don’t you go help them figure out how you think it should be done better. More likely you just want them to shut up.

Michal S

First of all, the claims of toxic shock syndrome are patently hysterical. In 2024, that’s a you problem and not the responsibility of anyone else. Speaks to the stupidity of the student (if true, which is more than debatable).

Secondly…welcome to the real world, where if you break laws and/or rules you’ve agreed to (which every student has within the student handbook)…..there are consequences. Don’t make this a 1A issue. It’s not. You don’t get to demand to be on private property because you feel like it.

Finally….it’s great these students found something that makes them feel good about themselves. It’s a shame it’s in support of a jihadist terror group…but good for them! That Vandy degree will be shut down by the pictures of them debasing themselves.

Dariush Qureshi

Reply to Michal S

You’re legitimately deranged and categorically useless. Nothing in the student handbook that says VU can violate student’s will to express their free speech, so they had to escalate from there. How else are they to be heard???

Also wow, didn’t know divesting from a genocidal ethnostate automatically means that you support “terror groups”. Your head is so far up your ass in cultural psychosis that you can’t comprehend wanting to do the right thing to stop a genocide that has killed 30,000+ people in counting.

25,000 Gazan children are ORPHANED within these past 5+ months because of the ideology of sniveling losers like you

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Reply to Dariush Qureshi

Your ineffective name-calling notwithstanding, let’s address the substance of your claims:

There are in fact policies in the student handbook related to gather in common spaces and related to using campus resources (including space). These students may have violated these policies.

Hamas is a terrorist organization by definition. They have recently targeted and attacked civilians and taken civilian hostages. While this does not excuse Israel’s actions, it is also a fact that is too conveniently ignored by those championing the Palestinian cause.

We don’t have any material ties to Hamas. Nothing I, or other protestors, say or do will affect what Hamas chooses to do. We have ties to the “Israeli” terrorist military. So we are working with what we have.

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“Israeli” does not need to be in quotes. Placing the word in quotes suggests that you, like Hamas, do not believe that Israel has a right to exist. BDS also interprets any engagement with Israel as being complicit in a genocide of Palestinians. That is to say that it does not believe that Israel has a right to exist. This is the fundamental issue.

There are certainly arguable points to be discussed in regards to that view, but the planned murder of 1400 civilians and taking of more than two hundred hostages is not an invitation to dialogue. It is a show of force being met with a show of force.

There was a ceasefire in place on October 6, 2023.

Dusty

Excellent post, my friend. But Israel’s right to exist, in situ, predates the madness of Islam by about 2000 years at the bare minimum. And that ceasefire that was in place apparently didn’t include “firing crap rockets at civilians” because hamas never quit doing that.

this simply is not true. US has funded Hamas in running Gaza via its contributions to UNRWA for one. Israel itself has spent millions on Gaza over the years helping to prop up Hamas in hopes of winning them over to the idea enthat life is better than death. It’s all be a huge waste, but the US has in fact been a part of it.

UNRWA isn’t Hamas but believing “Israel” to support your genocide is okay by your handbook

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The IDF is also a terrorist organization “by definition” and conducts terror raids every day the last many years and especially the last 20 years. The Hamas group runs the government and is more than what you are calling them.

Their non governmental, military wing is more or less a defensive resistance militia for people in an outdoor concentration camp being persecuted, bombed, tortured, and prison regularly for just walking outside at the wrong time, and a general disgusting apartheid environment with daily provocations which you think that they should sit there and just take for years on end without response. I personally do not favor any violent response but I understand the urge they had to stand up for themselves after daily comcentration camp abuse for YEARS.

The type of action that went on October 7 came after two Israeli assaults on worshipers at the third holy site in Islam including three days before the Hamas attack which some view as defensive. Everybody involved calls their as responses to the other as retaliation but when Israel is on occasion responded to they call everybody else a terrorist that strikes back after being pounded by Israel brutally using American weapons.

October 7 didn’t result in anything good for Gaza but giving Israel an excuse to do more thieving and piracy but it served as an apparent release of anger for the decades of misery, rapes, shelling, imprisonment, torture and massacres being inflicted on these people via what Israel calls “mowing the lawn” operations regularly.

Israel has killed hundreds of doctors, nurses, ambulance workers, journalist, and aid workers the past year and have exceeded the worst depravity a diabolical mind could conceive of.

Trying to shut these students up or shame them shows how lacking a conscience you and those like you are.

Susan K

You might want to actually read the Handbook. This temper tantrum violated at least a half a dozen university policies–perfectly legal and appropriate policies that protect the safety of all and the speech of others. You have a right to speech–you don’t have the right to force people to listen to you. Over entitled toddlers never bother to consider the Rights and well-being of other people. https://studenthandbook.vanderbilt.edu/

And because you probably live in a bubble and are unaware: The IDF in Gaza has the lowest civilian to combatant death rate in the history of modern urban warfare. Using civilians as human shields is a violation of Human Rights. Not condemning and placing blame where it belongs for those deaths means terrorists across the globe are noting that it is a successful tactic to be used in the future. You’re a tool for terrorists–literally.

Reply to Susan K

Excellent, factual post, Susan. You must now be soundly condemned & subjected to abuse for truthing. There’s no room for truth in the minds of leftist. Only their opinions are permitted to have a voice

Reply to Dusty

Yep. Freedom of speech for extreme leftists means silencing their opponents. Civil discourse, psh, why do that when you can force other people to believe what you believe. It is the way. (Sarcasm)

At least you acknowledge that it’s a progressive view rather than conservative to oppose apartheid and fascism in this era of bipartisan right wing warmongering fascism.

The iof does not have a low rate at all.
Killed more than Russia has in Ukraine
Here’s the thing you know it cuz if u didn’t u wouldn’t care and u can and have seen the birth so it is useless to hide it.

If wiping out Gaza is the only way to kill Hamas will you do it….

I already know your answer and it’s why you refuse to educate yourself.

Take a look at what the United States did in Iraq and Vietnam if you want to see something about civilian deaths. Israelis are certainly partnering with the experts on mass murder abroad.

Over entitled toddlers is that what MLK was he did the exact same thing shut down roads and speaking of MLK he was against “Israel” from the start .

I guess that mean u can pretend u ever liked him on the first place.

“Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all of our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity and the right to use whatever sea lanes it needs. I see Israel, and never mind saying it, as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.” (MLK March 26, 1968 address to the 68th annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly)

#tellthetruth
#crescereaude

It’s The IDF that uses civilians as human shields. They seize Palestinians to march in front of them as they stomp through peoples houses. The IDF absolutely does not have the lowest civilian to combat and death rate but that line must be just one of the dozens you tell yourself daily. They’ve also got the highest rate of killing journalists, nurses, doctors, workers, and aid workers in history for a war. Just keep on ranting but your lies are just making your nose grow.

Also go and look at the works of the late Israeli Yeshayahu Lebowitz to referenced “Judeo Nazis” would be the predictable result of hanging onto lands seized in the six day war and trying to run an outdoor apartheid concebtration camp instead of returning the lands. Miko Peled, Notman Finkelstein and Ilan Pappé are also valuable voices in the discourse on the topic.

James

Let’s dissect this…

There are very clear examples in the student handbook (if you’re a student, you have it readily available to read, and you’ve agreed to it in its entirety in order to matriculate) that states that you may not interfere or disrupt university activities without express permission. Just because a student has a “will to be heard” does not allow them free reign over how to do so. Protected speech is the right to not be punished or prosecuted for what you say, but there’s absolutely no law protecting people from their actions. Let alone their actions on a privately owned property.

Finally, you seem to conflate (like many of our insane generation) what is happening to innocent Gazan civilians with Israel. You have a terrorist government (which every single reasonable nation has agreed, and which even THEY themselves agree) that is using their own citizens as pawns in order for sheep like these protesters to place blame at the foot of Israel. Israel is not innocent, but what they are doing is what every other country would do in order to ensure their own survival. You just don’t like it because they’re Jews.

Reply to James

IM LITERALLY JEWISH

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I don’t believe you. If this is your real name, Qureshi is one of the most common Muslim family names and the leading tribe of the Mecca in AD 500s.

Who cares you don’t need to be Jewish to call out genocide anyway

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Also the blatant islamphobia in saying someone isn’t Jewish cuz of their names.

“IM (sic) LITERALLY JEWISH,” he typed, his all-caps, punctuation-free cry bringing to mind the complaint of a petulant child who has been refused a third serving of dessert, claiming entitlements and privileges in a manner that would rival that of Donald J. Trump. Will our hero make an interesting point or collapse red-faced in the mall like a toddler with a soiled diaper in dire need of a nap? Stay tuned to find out.

Then all counties are evil, if you have to kill people to survive u don’t deserve too

And if u say it was a lie it doesn’t matter if it was true genocide is evil back then and now

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It is israel fault, they bomb kill and assault innocent civilians I don’t care what you call us of this generation who has a conscience you are the ones who are beyond evil and are Agaisnt Palestine cuz they’re Arabic

Harry

College students that protest now days are just posers thinking their usefulness!In my day it was about WAR the civil rights movement has gone south because their taught communism instead

Reply to Harry

The anti-war protests in the 69s & 70s were funded by the KGB, making you a commie lackey. Who says that they were? The KGB.

“genocidal ethnostate” applies very nicely to the state Hamas runs in Gaza. Every one of the deaths there is at their hands and DESIRED by them. If you do not understand why that is so it is because you do not know a thing about the reality there.

Liaquat Khan

Genocidal Ethnostate – You must be talking about Syria, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, any other Stan, correct? Or is that just “intramurals”?

Reply to Liaquat Khan

Israel 🙂

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JJ Shalom

Zionist

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Reply to JJ Shalom

You write that word as if it’s a slur. The irony is that one of two things is going to flesh out over the next 10-15 years for everyone involved in these shenanigans-

You all will try to erase any proof that you were this naive and ignorant.
You will continue your hatred campaigns, lamenting the fact that the world does not bend to your sophomoric demands. All while failing to accomplish anything of value.

100% 👍. IMHO, if not making positive changes in the world by time you’re 25, you’re a failure & will remain as such. By time I was 22 I was running a fire station & working as a captain, saving lives, fighting fire, & at the end of each shift, leaving the world a better place for others. And I used those same skills on my free time to aid others. If you’re still sitting on your butt & whining about unrealistic, childish demands by time you’re old enough to drink, take the “L”. You’ve earned it.

Last edited 8 months ago by Dusty

You will fall

You bet we are. Am Yisrael Chai (“Israel lives”)

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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Amen. 🇵🇸

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You literally think that they don’t know the real world we know the consequences we call it out cuz none of this needed to happen happen in the first place.

I wonder what ur response to MLK would been. Laughing at him from outside his cell for not “understanding the real world”.

Also u just compared innocent civilians to a terrorist group and before u say Hamas no one here said they were doing it for Hamas. You admit you see all Palestine as your target don’t you

Also I love how non students can comment in not one either but I don’t think that should be the case also were becoming the work force soon enough it will be you who no one will want to hire 😁

The terror group at issue is the IDF which has been using terror methods the past 75 years to ethnically cleanse lands that they’re not entitled to, using bogus ancient scripture references to try to authorize themselves to take over other people’s homes.

These Israeli ethnic cleansing assaults didn’t start after October 7. It began in 1948 with assaults and rapes and continues even at a faster pace in the past 20 years. When you start assaulting a nation they will fight back and what Israel does his claim manifest destiny or something to explain why it’s OK for them to viciously wipe out a region.

Since the US also excels in bombing hospitals also as it did during the Iraq war that killed 1 million people, of course they don’t really care when a young person is shown burning to death while connected to an IV in a hospital tent that nobody can get closer to from the firebomb flames than 20 feet.

You can get a sense of the types of massacres that have been going on for the last 20 years from the IDF terrorists, the sort that the late Isrseli thinker Yeshayahu Leibowitz called “Judeo fascists,” by going to Vimeo and looking at Max Blumenthal’s film “Killing Gaza.”

Israel has been provoking and terrorizing Palestinians for years trying to find different ways to get an excuse to wipe out the rest of their people using American military support.

Besides the periodic “mowing the lawn” operations murdering hundreds and thousands of people at a time, Israel in 2023 alone assaulted female worshipers at Al-Aqsa mosque in the spring and then did assaulted worshipers there again October 4 right before the Oct 7 explosive reaction. They had been warned after the spring assault on women that attacking the mosque again might result in a terrible reaction, but this just seem to get them more interested in trying to provoke some more.

Al-Aqsa mosque is the third holiest site in Islam. Israelis have an excuse for all their hospital bombing and everything else they do because they think that they can just claim they have a halo and anything they do is OK but the rest of the world sees that this is not acceptable behavior.

I am thankful for Jewish Voice For Peace for trying to take a stand and for some of the great Jewish journalist who also do this every week. I’m glad that the students care about what is happening around them.