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View attachment 482988SUNY Purchase Agrees to Student Demands; Columbia Cancels Commencement Ceremony
Students at SUNY Purchase in New York state celebrated late Monday as Gaza solidarity activists announced the school had met protesters’ demands “to disclose and cut ties with war crimes and genocide.” Here in New York City, Columbia has canceled its main, university-wide graduation ceremony on...www.democracynow.org
What does “met protesters’ demands to disclose and cut ties with war crimes and genocide” even mean when you’re talking about a university?
Seems like the university is just giving those babies a pacifier so they’ll stop crying. It doesn’t actually mean anything.
'Everything We Wanted': SUNY Purchase Students Cheer After Administration Agrees to Israel Demands
SUNY Purchase College students cheered as the activist platform Raise the Consciousness (RTC) announced that the school’s administration had agreed to “every single demand” on Monday, following five days of protests urging divestment from Israel.Footage captured by John Dietrich Lindell shows a...
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“In a later Instagram story, RTC clarified that Purchase had “not divested from Israel,” but had met the group’s demands “to disclose and cut ties with war crimes and genocide.”