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The conflict over Columbia U's Gaza Solidarity Encampment pits an Egyptian-born school president against a student movement largely led by Arabs and Muslims protesting Israel's genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip. Goaded by Republican members of Congress and the Israel lobby, Columbia President Manouche Shafik has sicced the NYPD on the protesters, triggering mass arrests and suspensions of students for supposedly "trespassing" on their own campus.
Like so many contemporary Ivy League presidents, Shafik is not a scholar or academic. She currently serves on the board of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, providing a patina of diversity to a supranational global governing entity guided by a single uber-billionaire. Prior to that, Shafik acted as deputy governor of the Bank of England, the UK bank that confiscated Venezuela's gold reserves under orders from the US government in 2019. She has also served in top roles at the IMF and World Bank, where global south debt becomes a point of leverage for Washington and London. Her own journey to the US began as a young child when Egypt's populist President Gamal Abdel-Nasser seized land from her wealthy father.
Shafik owes her entire career to the trans-Atlantic oligarchy, and has no space in which to defy it. She was not appointed as president of Columbia to instill values like critical thinking or academic freedom. She's there to raise hundreds of millions from her wealthy benefactors. Her leadership not only exemplifies the elite corruption of US universities, it exposes the sham of neoliberal diversity politics.
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Like so many contemporary Ivy League presidents, Shafik is not a scholar or academic. She currently serves on the board of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, providing a patina of diversity to a supranational global governing entity guided by a single uber-billionaire. Prior to that, Shafik acted as deputy governor of the Bank of England, the UK bank that confiscated Venezuela's gold reserves under orders from the US government in 2019. She has also served in top roles at the IMF and World Bank, where global south debt becomes a point of leverage for Washington and London. Her own journey to the US began as a young child when Egypt's populist President Gamal Abdel-Nasser seized land from her wealthy father.
Shafik owes her entire career to the trans-Atlantic oligarchy, and has no space in which to defy it. She was not appointed as president of Columbia to instill values like critical thinking or academic freedom. She's there to raise hundreds of millions from her wealthy benefactors. Her leadership not only exemplifies the elite corruption of US universities, it exposes the sham of neoliberal diversity politics.
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.@Yale students continue seventh day of hunger strike in protest against university funds being used to support companies selling arms to genocidal Israel. The movement for justice and accountability is growing and spreading across university campuses in the US and beyond, including Columbia and @Harvard last week. If change doesn’t come from the top, it is coming from the people and it is making a difference. Thank you to every student that has taken a stand to defend justice, freedom and equality for all. This is humanity 
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Why did a bunch of so-called conservatives start defending a $60 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine all of a sudden?
Simple, because there’s $26 billion in it for Israel. That’s all it takes to turn them into a bunch of socialists.
They’ll also blindly support hate speech laws, cancel culture, and leftist smear tactics. They’re completely woke when it comes to Israel, which renders them useless because then we get legislation like we got today.
The traitors in our government know that they’ll support anything — whether it be unconstitutional or inflationary, as long as there’s something in it for Israel.
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Simple, because there’s $26 billion in it for Israel. That’s all it takes to turn them into a bunch of socialists.
They’ll also blindly support hate speech laws, cancel culture, and leftist smear tactics. They’re completely woke when it comes to Israel, which renders them useless because then we get legislation like we got today.
The traitors in our government know that they’ll support anything — whether it be unconstitutional or inflationary, as long as there’s something in it for Israel.
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