News and Analysis 4/23/24

The war over free speech 0on campus in America expands:

Harvard Students Rally in Solidarity with Pro-Palestine MIT Encampment Amid National Campus Turmoil (Harvard Crimson)
Harvard Suspends Palestine Solidarity Committee Amid Wave of Protests on College Campuses (Harvard Crimson)
Police Arrest Dozens of Pro-Palestine Protesters at Yale (Axios)
LIVE: Pro-Palestine Protesters Disperse from Blocking Intersection, Move to Cross Campus (Yale News)
Columbia Faculty Walk Out in Solidarity with Protesters After Rabbi Advises Jewish Students to Stay Away: Live (Independent)
Columbia Cancels In-person Classes as Pro-Palestinian Protests Sprout Across U.S. Campuses Education (PBS)
Major Pro-Palestine Protests at Cal Poly Humboldt Provoke Massive Police Response; Protesters Occupy Siemens Hall; Reports of Violent Force Between Activists and Law Enforcement (Local Coast Outpost)
UC Berkeley Students Establish Free Palestine Encampment Outside Sproul Hall (Daily Cal)
Biden Condemns “Antisemitic Protests” and “Those Who Don’t Understand What’s Going on With the Palestinians” (CBS News)

“[D]epending on one’s politics, the seder offers countless opportunities to see one’s self in the role of the victim, or the oppressor”:

Undoing Zionism: “A Way to Honor My Ancestors” (Salon)

“The pogroms continued into Monday, when Israeli settlers shot dead two Palestinian shepherds”:

‘The Soldiers Opened the Way for the Settlers’: Pogroms Surge Across West Bank (972 Magazine)

“The dead, killed in hits on two houses, included 13 children from one family”:

Baby in Gaza Saved from Womb of Mother Killed in Israeli Strike (Reuters)

“Israel has appeared several times on CPJ’s annual census, but this is the highest number of arrests of Palestinian journalists since CPJ began documenting arrests in 1992″:

Israel Tied With Iran Among Top Jailers of Journalists in 2023, Report Finds (Truthout)

Kanjwal breaks with the tradition of analyzing “the Kashmir conflict through the lenses of India–Pakistan relations” to instead focus on local regimes:

Book Review – Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Commonwealth)

The state had cited “factual descriptions of Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinians, and the withholding of slain Palestinians’ bodies … as examples of [her] dangerousness”:

Court Orders Release of Palestinian Feminist Scholar Arrested in Jerusalem (Electronic Intifada)

“Israeli media circulated reports of Abu Shuja’s death, with the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper stating that he was killed in an exchange of gunfire in the Nour Shams camp”: