News and Analysis 4/25/24

In the face crackdowns campus protests swell, augmented by Seder protests against Zionism:

Colleges Nationwide Turn to Police to Quell Pro-Palestine Protests as Commencement Ceremonies Near (AP)
‘Not Like Other Passovers’: Hundreds of Jewish Demonstrators Arrested After New York Protest Seder (The Guardian)
Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the “False Idol of Zionism” (Democracy Now!)
Gaza Protests Grow at US Colleges, Thousands Demonstrate in Brooklyn (Reuters)
Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep US College Campuses Following Mass Arrests at Columbia (AP)
Student Protesters Are Schooling Their Universities (New York Magazine)
Pro-Palestine Campus Encampments at Columbia, NYU, and More See Protests, Arrests over Israel Divestment (Teen Vogue)
Pro-Palestine Protesters Begin Encampment in Harvard Yard (Harvard Crimson)
UT-Austin Students Hold Pro-Palestinian Protest; at Least 50 Arrested (Austin American-Statesman)
Pro-Palestine Students Occupy UT Dallas’ Building Demanding Action amid Gaza Conflict (Dallas Morning News)
Hundreds of UIUC Students Participate in Pro-Palestine Rally (WCIA)
USC Closes Gates as Pro-Palestine Protest Continues on Campus (NBC Los Angeles)
What to Know About Pro-Palestine University Protests, from Texas to California (The Hill)
Pro-Palestine Protesters Are on the Right Side of History (Jacobin)

“Contradicting the Supreme Court’s verdict is the most important and at the same time, the strangest aspect of this decision”:

Iranian Revolutionary Court Overrides Supreme Court, Sentences Dissenting Rapper Toomaj Salehi to Death (NIAC Action)

Previously, “if an armored vehicle reached a dead-end in the camp’s alleys, it made a U-turn and looked for a different way through. This time they just demolished whatever they found in front of them”:

Three Days Under Fire: Palestinians in Tulkarem Describe the ‘Most Violent’ Israeli Raid in Years (Mondoweiss)

Her “work initially drew criticism…[, b]ut today, religious leaders acknowledge the need for sex education, and imams and sheiks often invite Lindsey-Ali to mosques to talk with women”:

Meet the Sex Educators Challenging What We Think We Know About Sex and Islam (Religion News Service)

“The military is reportedly organising a mass movement of the civilians into tents in Khan Younis … against advice of humanitarians who have warned that conditions are not suitable for living”:

Israel Is ‘Moving Ahead’ with Rafah Invasion as South Lebanon Hit with Multiple Strikes (New Arab)

Germany “plans to follow several other countries in resuming cooperation with the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians in Gaza after the publication of an independent review of its neutrality”: