Re: Texas arrests 30+ students and threatens expulsion over ‘antisemitism’

D. Ray <d@ray> wrote:
> Austin, Texas – Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) supported the arrest of
> dozens of student protestors and issued threats of expulsion from Texan
> Universities on Wednesday, over what he called acts of “antisemitism.”
> 
> The shocking, constitutionally fraught police action would come amid mass
> arrests and violence at several American colleges, aimed at cracking down
> on pro-Palestine rhetoric now found coast to coast.
> 
> “Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses,”
> proclaimed Abbott on X, formerly Twitter. “These protesters belong in
> jail.”
> 
> “Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in
> hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in
> Texas should be expelled,” the post continued.
> 
> The post was in reply to a shocking video depicting armored members of the
> Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) physically removing throngs of
> peaceful protestors from an outdoor common area of the University of Texas
> in Austin. According to reports, the clashes between pro-Palestine
> demonstrators and police would culminate in over 30 arrests.
> 
> Painted as a “tense standoff,” the highly televised event also saw the
> concerning use of police on horseback, rounding up American citizens for
> merely expressing political views contrary to the state of Israel.
> Nationally, over 100 would be arrested.
> 
> The protest at UT Austin was said to have been organized by the Palestinian
> Solidarity Committee, which directed students to “occupy” the South Lawn in
> order to raise awareness of the ongoing Palestinian genocide. In response,
> the University had sent a letter urging organizers to cancel the event,
> prior to the hostilities on Wednesday.
> 
> “Simply put, the University of Texas at Austin will not allow this campus
> to be ‘taken’ and protestors to derail our mission in ways that groups
> affiliated with your national organization have accomplished elsewhere,”
> the letter read. 
> 
> Online commentators were quick to point out Governor Abbott’s apparent
> hypocrisy. In 2019, the long-time supporter of Israel once signed a law
> designed specifically to “protect free speech on campus.” This stunning
> policy reversal led many to see Abbott as merely a tool of international
> Zionism, attacking him for a perceived “America last” position.
> 
> “Incredibly disturbing footage out of Texas where authorities appear to be
> barring any pro-Palestinian protest at all in open outdoor areas of
> campus,” read a post by First Amendment attorney Alex Morey on X/Twitter.
> “…This appears to be a blatant violation not just of the First Amendment
> but S.B. 18, which requires these spaces be open to protest.”
> 
> “Who can curtail Americans’ speech most aggressively for Israel? Winner
> gets an all-expense paid trip to the Western Wall and a special
> commemorative Yarmulke,” said Journalist Michael Tracy, also to X/Twitter.
> 
> Others, however, pointed to the grim reality of Abbott’s military-style
> crackdown on free expression. Political podcaster and anti-Zionist Mike
> Peinovich said the move was made specifically to arrest and identify
> pro-Palestine leftists in order to politically gatekeep them from future
> positions of prestige.
> 
> “(Jews) want, and in some cases have succeeded, in getting the cops to go
> in and bust heads. They then want to dox and ruin the future of anyone
> involved, as well as impose legal costs on the Universities for mental
> health damage to Jewish students…” read a post to X/Twitter.
> 
> “Ultimately, their goal is to make pro-Palestine activism so personally and
> institutionally costly and to create such a stigma associated with it that
> University communities police themselves for it and the internal cultures
> shift to make Palestine out of bounds like Nazism is,” read another.
> 
> Abbott, the Republican governor who has so far done little to stem the flow
> of thousands of foreign migrants from entering the United States illegally,
> has often signaled support for the regime in Tel Aviv. In March, Abbott
> personally signed Executive Order No. GA-44, a brutal hate speech policy
> designed to “address(ing) acts of antisemitism in institutions of higher
> education.”
> 
> The law was panned as a blatant “attack” on the First Amendment, made to
> protect Jews from criticism as the war on Gaza continues into 2024.
> 
> Abbott’s decision to send in “shock troops” to disperse peaceful student
> protestors fell in line with international calls to deal with anti-Zionist
> rhetoric on American campuses. In a publicized address, Israeli Prime
> Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally called for a heavy-handed crackdown,
> handwaving protestors as merely “antisemitic mobs” in support of “genocidal
> terrorists.”
> 
> “Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities,” said the Israeli
> leader to an audience on Wednesday. “They call for the annihilation of
> Israel…They say not only death to Israel, death to the Jews, but death to
> America.”
> 
> “This tells us there is an antisemitic urge that has terrible
> consequences,” he continued.
> 
> Abbott has found allies in many mainstream GOP politicians seeking to court
> the Israel lobby. On Tuesday, one day before the political repression at U
> of T, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton bizarrely referred to pro-Palestine
> protests at New York’s Columbia University as a “nascent pogrom,” and even
> urged President Joe Biden to send in the National Guard to suppress
> criticism of Israel by force.
> 
> “The nascent pogroms at Columbia have to stop TODAY, before our Jewish
> brethren sit for Passover Seder tonight,” said Cotton in a breathless
> tweet. “If Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the
> National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these
> mobs.”
> 
> Cotton previously drew controversy for his rabidly pro-Zionist rhetoric
> when he urged American drivers to “take matters into their own hands” when
> dealing with pro-Palestine protestors who block traffic. The tweet, which
> earned millions of views on social media, appeared to call for vigilante
> justice against Israel’s critics, up to and including throwing them from
> bridges.
> 
> Meanwhile, support for Israel continues to decline rapidly as it
> increasingly stands face-to-face with the consequences of its own horrific
> actions in the region. In early March, Israeli warplanes bombed a home in
> the southern Gazan city of Rafah, killing over 14, many of them children.
> So far, more than 30,320 Palestinians have been killed, with an additional
> 71,533 wounded since the events of October 7th.
> 
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replacement migration?

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