Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share. docs.google.com/document/d/1cV…
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I have filed an ethics complaint against @OuttenGolden, the law firm that I hired to represent me when @Columbia launched an unfounded & politicized investigation of me because I condemned violent attacks ag pro-Palestinian student protesters on our campus.
Law firms bear a duty of loyalty to their clients when they agree to represent them, yet @OuttenGolden “fired” me as a client bec some of its partners were uncomfortable with my support for @Columbia students who had been attacked for supporting Palestinian rights.
@OuttenGolden's own website boasts a commitment to "advance the goals of employees and protect their rights against injustices in the workplace," but they seem to have a Palestine exception to this commitment.
"There's a difference between being freed and being free... As soon as the institution of slavery was abolished, white legislators and white society implemented a range of measures that weren't slavery but came pretty darn close." wpr.org/changing-fight…#reparations 1/4
Black people were freed into a society that still hated them, still saw them as not fully human and inferior to white people. #reparations 2/4
We never really had a reckoning with what it would have meant to welcome freed people into society as equals, to give them the material resources required for them to actually be free people in society. #reparations 3/4