Quarterly Quotes - Academic Intifada Edition

October 2023. Emphasis ours

Long live the Resistance!

—Prof. Khayke Scottish, UMass Boston, the morning of Oct. 7, 2023.

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Colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat. —Frantz Fanon

—Jairo I Fúnez-Flores, Retweeted by Prof. Dana Francisco Miranda, UMass Boston, the morning of Oct. 7, 2023.

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I believe people have the power, and the number of people out here really shows that the majority of the people in this country and the world support Palestinian liberation.

—Nice, balanced, even handed article in our very own Mass Media, i.e. the FSU Pravda, Oct. 23, 2023.

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Americans express support for Israel in its war with Hamas. In fact, nearly two in three Americans say the U.S. should publicly support Israel…

"Israel is clearly winning in the court of public opinion," says Lee M. Miringoff, Director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

—Marist Poll, Oct. 13, 2023

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When people are occupied resistance is justified.

—Boston PSL (party for socialism and liberation), cited as a source in the above nice, balanced, even-handed article, calling a barbaric massacre “resistance”, Oct. 10, 2023

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Intifada Intifada, long live the Intifada!

From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!

Stop the killing stop the crime, Israel out of Palestine!

—Students for Justice in Palestine rally calling for peace and coexistence, UMass Boston, Oct. 25, 2023

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“Palestinians have the legal ground to violently seize back their own homes from these settlers.” His interlocutor pushes back, clearly having hoped Hasan would disavow killing children. Answer: “There are baby settlers as well, there are baby settlers as well. There are babies in the settlements.” 

—Hasan Piker, on Twitter.