I saw the GA State Patrol manhandling students at Emory today. Not a good look. Edited to add: Now just saw where a female Economics professor was trying to find out what was going on and a police man came up and grabbed her and then flung her to the ground and hand cuffed her. A second professor was also arrested. "Brine" Kemp tweeted that no one was going to protest on a Georgia college campus and if they did, they'd be arrested. That's right, in the bastions of higher education, you better not exercise anything resembling democracy because we'll close down that shit right away. This is not to say that I support anti-semitic OR anti-palestinian rhetoric but I do believe that protesting is a way to practice democracy and to let people show strong feelings about various topics. Just because students are protesting, does not mean they are being violent.

On The Reid Out tonight, a reporter who had been at Columbia said that pro-Palestinian students were orderly and were not engaging in any anti-semitic behaviors. There were some Christian Nationalist preachers who were on campus to support Israel. I'm not sure if they were there with a group of Jewish students or students showing their support for Israel or just there by themselves. The journalist reported that the only anti-semitic signs or protesting that she saw was someone standing just off campus with a huge sign that said something that was anti-semitic. I would not be surprised if this was not often the case...outside agitators coming in to stir things up to cause trouble. Students protesting on their own campuses is one thing. People that don't belong on campus coming onto campus to protest are something entirely different and will more than likely just cause trouble.