Thread by @FrancescaHumi

a short thread on minouche shafik and white supremacy on campus...
shafik was the director at lse when i did my masters and peter cvjetanovic, the poster boy for the 'unite the right' charlottesville white supremacist and anti-semitic rally was also doing his masters there

we wrote a petition to have him expelled from lse but we were told by lse leadership that they couldn't do that - bc 'free speech' but also bc they can't and don't do a background check on political views of applicants
full statement: thetab.com/uk/london/2018…

we also held a demo outside of the directorate's office () and confronted shafik at an event on campus () - she gave us the same spiel basically but also added: political screening of students was both “impossible and illegal”.thebeaverlse.co.uk/anti-racism-pr…
thebeaverlse.co.uk/students-grill…

this was about an avowed white supremacist who was filmed and photographed chanting 'jews will not replace us' at a university in the US
he was allowed to continue his education and graduated in 2019

meanwhile at columbia shafik is calling the nypd on pro-palestine student protestors, kicking them out of their accommodation, suspending them, expelling them!

for cop shafik, an anti-semitic white supremacist student involved in a deadly rally has more of a right to education than students assembling on campus to demand an end to genocide and divestment from israeli occupation which has murdered thousands

more info on student organising against peter cvjetanovic here:

full solidarity with columbia and barnard students! free palestine!decolonisinglse.wordpress.com/resources/