Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighs in on campus protests

As pro-Palestinian protests spread throughout college campuses nationwide, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York condemned the way administrators like Columbia University President Minouche Shafik have handled the issue on behalf of the student protesters. Follow live updates.

           

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The University forget its charter - and worked against being an open inclusive environment for students to express their opinions and FREE SPEECH - which no side in any issue should presume would only be one sides views - and never permitting any opposing free speech. If Ukraine can be discussed anywhere and everywhere by all people in our nation - college campuses, public streets, anywhere - and war has been ongoing there for two years - Israel and Palestine can be openly talked about in our nation - on college campuses, on public streets, anywhere and everywhere in the USA and that does not threaten people. It critical for people to freely discuss all things. During the Vietnam War - my generations era - we were freely permitted to discuss anythere and everything it in as expressive a free speech ways and means as college kids and young adults and older Americans chose. It is not threatening to democracy to EXERCISE FREE SPEECH. It is threatening to a democracy to tell people ONLY CERTAIN issues or sides will be permitted. And special interests have a right to shut down all opposing viewpoints. YOU CANT DO THAT. Columbia University - any attempt to shut down free speech is WRONG.


The vast majority of terrorist supporters on American campuses are not American students.

Foreign governments write big checks to make sure their students – and their politics – get the red carpet treatment at well-known universities.

According to the National Association of Scholars, since 2001 Qatar has given about $5 billion to American universities, more than any other foreign government. Between 2014 and 2019, American colleges and universities received $2.7 billion in Qatari funding without any public acknowledgment of the source of these funds. Given that Qatar hosts Hamas' leadership, one can see how cracking down on Hamas-sympathizing students might seem like a bad idea to university presidents cashing Qatari checks.


None of this is difficult, ask the local police departments to remove everyone who is not an enrolled student or member of the current faculty. Those who refuse to go, or attempt to return should be charged with criminal trespass. All enrolled students who are participating should be informed that they face expulsion for their behavior. Those who continue should in fact be expelled. All faculty members involved should be put on notice that they will be fired for cause. Those who continue should be fired. All participants who are here on any type of visa, should have their visas revoked, and these individuals should be deported.


Always,the universities hold the torch of freedom. Biden behaves as a Decatur.What does he say to the North Korean leader about freedom and democracy. The third world countries have more democracy and freedom to speak more than the western countries. The students in America are arrested from universities for their thoughts and ideas. Antisemitism is the magic word that Israel and America can control the American students. The truth can't be hidden forever. Biden and Netinyaho share the same values of killing and murdering thousands of children.babies and women. Where are the human rights ,the women rights ,the children rights. Hypocrisy and double standards control the world.


The corruption and depth of Zionist penetration within the US administration, Congress, the media and universities has become clear. Billions of dollars are spent out of the taxpayers' pockets of a country committing genocide. Some of that money goes to buy politicians and media figures, while another part goes to Zionist businessmen for the purpose of buying universities and controlling the opinions of university students. Isn't the practice of persecution and suppression of freedom of expression a kind of dictatorship? The government changes, but Zionism does not change. Democrat or Republican, both offer loyalty to Zionism before offering loyalty to the peoples who pay their salaries.


College campuses should be a place where whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Marxists, etc. should be able to freely express their opinion that the United States and Israel are racist states, that Mohammad was a slave holder and child molester, that there are only two sexes, that homophobia is abnormal, that capitalism and Communism don’t work, that Japan and China are racist, xenophobic states, that no part of the world today is as backward as the Islamic world, that most North Africans are racists, etc. without having to worry about being harassed or physically attacked for having such opinions.


It’s very unfortunate and sad that people believes in victims statistics from the ministry of Palestine which it’s controlled by the founded Iranian group called Hamas . Exaggerating numbers of victims so the world can keep up with the hatred toward the Jews . Which it’s an Iranian Hamas plan to des-credit Israel and their influence in the Middle East . It’s all already planned by the Iranian regime and the KGB from Russia ordered by Putin and supported by the communist government of China . By giving weapons and drones to Iran .
Already Hamas and Hezbollah fighters have crossed the broken border of USA created by the Biden administration. Where they planned to attack American tourists sites and government buildings and to influence in the protests to seed. Antisemitism and hatred toward Jews and against America ️️️


Help, my sisters... We are from Syria in need of help. We were displaced from our homes because of the terrible war to the camps on the border between Syria and Turkey. You all know that the war is very difficult and that when the planes bomb us, they hit adults and children. Every Syrian family has a sad story and a difficult life due to lack of food, hunger and poverty. Most families have one or two martyrs. Most families are dispersed, and some of them are missing. But in the camps we also live our worst lives. Anyone who does not want to live as we live. I ask you to think about how difficult the situation we are living in is. Please help us to live and complete the rest of our lives well. Whoever wants to make sure that I am not a fraud should call and confirm and I will see with his own eyes how we live and how our bad situation is.


How dare you. I lost classmates to Vietnam, Dirk. And I recall the Viertnam era - and if you are too young to recall it - do your homework - every college campus across our nation dealt with free speech on its campuses that was passionate and determined and no one from college administrations were told to take sides or to tell one side - their views, their free speech had no place on a college campus in the USA. Its 2024, Dirk. Somehow the views of Israelis are welcome - no one else? That constitution afronting. HUGELY SO. I never thought I would see this day. And those same college campuses during the most passionate Vietnam years- never shut down free speech or took sides. That is NOT THE ROLE OF COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS IN THE USA - from New York to Alaska.


10ºIt is certainly common sense that made them stand in the right place besides humanity, morality and conscience, as well as support for the Palestinian people's freedom to legitimate self-determination from colonialism to commit heinous crimes that are unparalleled in history.
they stand in the right place and this is the duty of every free human being in the world to turn this horror against humanity, especially children, elders and women.
Respect, appreciation, thanks and respect for every free human being, stands against the barbaric, Nazi-Zionist terror of the murderer of children and women.
Supports the Palestinian people's right to liberate their homeland from occupation.




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