The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

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The Trump administration is considering a plan to punish some members of the NATO alliance that he believes were unhelpful to the U.S. and Israel during the Iran war, according to administration officials. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes

221/ RT @JustinTLogan: A play in four acts: Israel complains about ceasefire, including that Lebanon was included. Pakistan, which brokered the agreement, says Lebanon was included. Israel, which was not a party to the talks, says it wasn't. Israel launches largest assault on Lebanon in years.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

Standard Israeli ceasefire under Netanyahu

More photos from Israel bombing Rafie Nia Synagogue in Tehran

202/ It has been one month since missiles struck Shajareh Tayyebeh school, killing at least 171 people, most of them children. @stephglinski.bsky.social and Mohammad Mohsenifar report on a grieving city. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/03/m...

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”

#Lebanon: Following yesterday's Israeli airstrike on a residential neighbourhood in #Beirut, five people were killed, including a 15-year-old girl and two Sudanese migrants. Fifty-two people, including eight children, were wounded, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

I've written an article in this week's @thecontinent.org about mining giant Anglo American leaving Southern Africa, and what they are leaving behind. Free to read and subscribe: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

In case you wondered what it would look like if a President conducted an actual war based entirely on fake news.

Trump says he’s not worried about the possibility that attacks on civilian infrastructure in Iran are “war crimes” because he says Iranians are “animals.” He actually said that. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

NEW: I found IRS paperwork for several nonprofits whose addresses matched Border Patrol stations. Some of the groups, named after the military's "morale, welfare, and recreation" program, were selling challenge coins commemorating last year's enforcement surges: www.wired.com/story/us-bor...

Trump: "The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night."

You’ll never guess who bombed another school today

what kind of "inevitable" is ai? maxread.substack.com/p/is-ubiquit...

💢 Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, rejected proposals for Hamas’ armed wing to disarm on Sunday, calling them a “blatant attempt” by Israel to continue killing and achieve the extermination of Palestinians. In a recorded statement, he said such demands would not be...

🟡 Hezbollah claimed it successfully hit an Israeli warship 68 nautical miles off the Lebanese coast using an anti-ship cruise missile. According to Israel’s Channel 14, Israeli officials believe a warship was indeed hit, but say it may have been a British vessel mistakenly targeted. The Telegraph...

I wrote about media rushing to turn Iran potentially capturing an American POW—who was bombing their country—as a “escalation” by Iran and Iran taking “hostages”, and the broader default setting of western media that turns everything our enemies do, no matter how defensive, into Sinister Terrorism

191/ WTF (this is real, this morning) truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Oh no, not Larry Ellison’s company Oracle

I read a lot of conservative media, and let me just say that this Washpost house editorial is one of the most shameful pieces of unsubstantiated, free-market claptrap that has been published all year, by anyone. Barely a mention of the thousands of deaths caused by US aid cutbacks.

The genocidaires have already started their shooting and crying films.

hegseth pledged "no quarter." earlier this year a US sub sank a boat of iranians coming back from a fleet regatta. those we didn't kill we abandoned to drown. this week the iranians shot down and captured US pilots who were bombing them and it's being called a "hostage taking."

‘Salameh was murdered not just because of Munich, but also because his close relationship with the CIA made him a point of contact between Washington and the PLO, a connection not at all to Israel’s liking.’ Andrew Cockburn on Mossad’s assassination strategy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jared Kushner is seeking peace deals in the Middle East. He’s also raising money for his own firm | Mohamad Bazzi

More than 1.1 million people, including nearly 400,000 children, have been forced to flee their homes by Israeli bombing and displacement. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A month in, it has now fully sunk in. The Financial Times just titles it: The global wave of energy rationing! Data-rich article on the horrible suffering of demand destruction worldwide and governments in crisis mode. @katemac.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/a9f5... bsky.app/profile/isab...

Ending the war on Iran is the only way to open Strait of Hormuz, says China: Peoples Dispatch peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/03/e...

Inside south Lebanon: Hezbollah’s war of attrition reshapes the battlefield: The Cradle thecradle.co/articles/ins...

"If even the fractional number of known contractor injuries is added to the tally, the casualty count for Americans and those on U.S. bases may top 13,600."

Although oil prices shooting above $100 per barrel make for a rude awakening, African economies finally have an opportunity to make a strategic break toward clean-energy sovereignty, notes @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social. bit.ly/3Q0WcRH

More than 11.5 million documents were released in what was considered one of the biggest data leaks ever.

This is a map from JP Morgan showing when oil shipments from the Strait of Hormuz are scheduled to make their last deliveries in different parts of the world. Even if hostilities were to cease today, refineries & storage facilities have been struck, & tankers […] [Original post on ioc.exchange]

As Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes expand, swallowing homes, farms, and infrastructure, what appears as a climate anomaly reveals a reckoning with ecological limits, failed planning, and the illusion that water would stay where it was put. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

Odds of an El Niño event this year are ~60% Higher temps, lower rainfall + fertilizer shortages have the potential for a severe hunger crisis which will not be limited to the subcontinent Polycrisis gathering momentum

French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan to be tried for 'apology for terrorism' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-palestinian-mep-rima-hassan-be-tried-apology-terrorism

The U. of Washington stripped its Director of Middle East Studies of his position for writing an email that said “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class” and that Iran had not been pursuing nuclear weapons. In other words, for stating facts.

You may have missed some of Trump's 20+ wars, covert ops, armed interventions, and proxy wars. We're keeping track...

Israel is openly declaring that it intends to ethnically cleanse south Lebanon. Our tax dollars paid for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and now they are paying for even more of Israel’s atrocities in Lebanon. Tell your senators to block weapons to Israel: imeupolicyproject.org/stop-deliver...

⛽️ Iran war drives sharp fuel price hikes across Africa African governments have imposed steep fuel price increases as the Iran war drives a surge in global oil prices, Reuters reports, with a number of import-dependent countries especially vulnerable to the changes. 🔸 Ghana raised petrol prices...

USrael destroyed the Pasteur Institute of Tehran, an important centre for epidemic disease research & a main producers of vaccines in the ME. Established over 100 yrs ago by Dr. Sabbar Farmanfarmaian on land donated by his father Prince Farmanfarma. This is a crime against humanity.