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you guys are great! You are why I wake up Monday morning to listen to real news from you. I am in solidarity with you as I am a JVP!

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From thenation.com

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I would never say I expected more from Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, as that would have required me to expect anything good from him. But I still found myself surprised when he referred to the Columbia University protests against Israel’s war on Gaza as a form of “pogroms.”

Nor did I expect more from The Wall Street Journal, which ran an op-ed arguing that Hamas and Hezbollah are “working with and grooming” pro-Palestine activists. Nor from Benjamin Netanyahu, who compared the campus protests to Nazi Germany. Nor from House Speaker Mike Johnson or Anti-Defamation League President Jonathan Greenblatt, both of whom called for the National Guard to be sent to Columbia.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/the-attacks-on-the-palestine-movement-are-getting-stupider-by-the-second/

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I walked down to Washington University yesterday, where the big protest happened the night before, where Jill Stein and her campaign managers were arrested; where 6 different PDs were called in to quell the "disturbance" (Hello, "Civil disobedience": anyone ever heard of that?). So, I'm looking at some really cool modern art--Feininger, Ernst, Matto, you name it--and there is zero sign that anything happened the night before. Total Erasure. One of my gal's co-workers made the joke that it was so quiet because everyone was in jail; funny joke. Seriously: after a swarm of the Men-in-Blue the night before, absolutely not one cop seen on Campus the next day. Has the 1984-Software Program accelerated that far, and so fast?

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Thank you!

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A-Z brand names who support the IDF

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thank you so much for the list! How did you find it? Also, I need to find out the companies Columbia has in its portfolio. Some are private and not accessible. Do you know?

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Boycott divestment movement I 1st learned of in 2016 per Jewish pro Palistinain voices.

Al Jazeera February 29 2016 BDS in US boycott Israel movement gains support. Columbia University apparently has investments wth Black Rock, Airbnb, Caterpillar and Google "Project Nimbus". Honestly I'm a granny - all my life Israel has been a force of violence. Check out Katie Halper "Useful Idiots". Grayzone wth Max Blumenthal & Aaron Mate. Norman Finkelstein also a Jewish voice for the boycott. Shalom.

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That's a fact! However, it is important not to get caught up in the superficial details, which is where the Major Media Manipulation happens. "The Wizard of Oz" has no clothes! There is the Sensation, and then the Perception of the Sensation, and MSM is there to block the Perception, or to distort it into an Authoritarian direction. Hopefully that all makes some sense, some Common Sense...

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