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Mothers are so judgemental. I was pushing my daughter in her pram and one said, "Your baby looks like a 6 pack of beer!" "Don't listen to them, Peroni." I whispered.
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Arrested Again The abruptness, severity and theatrics behind the May 29 arrest of funk and trap music artist Me Poze do Rodo (Marlon Brendon Coelho Couto) downgrades Brazilian media even further, to the point of the story being published in the New Yโฆ
Harvard trying to choose the path that punishes people who oppose genocide while at the same time fighting off the Trump admin's attack on academic freedoms is a remarkable effort at squaring two completely adversarial roles.
Here's the commencement speech by Zehra Imam from Harvard Divinity School. The speech Harvard censored.
In May, Harvard Divinity School refused to publish its commencement speech after a speaker went off-script to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. The Intercept...
Far right chuds who pedojacket trans women are really just deflecting. So many right wing "anti-pedo activists" are actually sexual abusers themselves.
Tasmania: Covid hits state hospitals, causes holiday cancellations
"The Health Department confirmed cases of Covid at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital and North-West Regional Hospital but were unable to say how many patients had been infected"
LIVE: 12 killed in Israeli bombing of Gaza City home; talks set to resume | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20โฆ
- Israeli attacks kill 27 in Gaza today - Thousands of families cut off from water in Gaza City - Netanyahu dispatches negotiators to Qatar ahead of meeting with Trump - WATCH: Israeli attack kills doctor and 3 of his children in Gaza - Israeli attacks kill 17 across Gaza
If someone was in my care, and I decided to not get them medical care, not feed them, and make them sleep outside, I'd go to jail. Especially if that neglect leads to thier death.
But if I were elected to office, or given a job as CEO, I can do that all I want.
The European Union plans to create reserves of critically important minerals and cable repair kits in case of emergencies. The Financial Times (FT) newspaper writes about this with reference to the order of the European Commission.
The European Union's attempts to adopt another, already 18th package of anti-Russian sanctions have not yet been successful due to Slovakia's position.
Hundreds take to the streets to protest Starmer regimeโs participation in Israelโs genocide in Gaza Hundreds of local people gathered and marched on Saturday through Camden in the heartโฆ
"Palestine is waiting for you to arrive. And you must be courageous enough to rise to the call because Palestine will keep showing up in your living rooms until you are ready to meet its gaze."
All major US institutions have betrayed the values America pretended to stand for.
Yet while institutions like Harvard act in cowardice, some who attended it, like Zehra Imam, still see the world with moral clarity and act with courage in service of truth & real justice.
ChatGPT is straight up just making shit up. It knows people that look for #homebrewing recipes use Brewfather; that it imports/exports JSON; but then just generates JSON thatโs not even close to the correct format.
Energy giant SSE may keep Peterhead power station 10 years longer than planned, which critics fear could โblow an enormous holeโ in the Scottish Governmentโs climate strategy.
Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on Whitehall
The government's pay deal for teachers, while improved from their initial offer, still amounts to cuts to education
On 22 May, the independent School Teacher Pay Review Body finally released its recommendation for a 4% pay increase for teachers, iโฆ
Alex Snowdon explains why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation
Karl Marx and his close collaborator Frederick Engels, using insights from anthropologists, understood that human societies had notโฆ
Kneecap will no longer face charges over a resurfaced #video where members chanted "Kill your local #MP!" at a 2023 gig, according to UK #police. Due to the statutory time limit of #prosecution expiring, the police could not continue the investigation, per The Independent.
Palestine solidarity was not confined to a couple of moments, but was a pervasive normality at the festival, in stark contrast to our media, reports Katherine Hajiyianni
In the sun and sequin-soaked fields of Glastonbury Festivalโs โmost politicalโฆ
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FreeOffice isn't open source. It's available as a deb or an RPM, or a basic archive. No Flatpak, Snap or Appimage, though.
FreeOffice does word processing, creating spreadsheets, and presentations. FreeOffice aims to be as compatible with MS Office as can be. FreeOffice gives you a choice between the classic menubar + toolbar combo, and the ribbon interface that MS office uses.
In terms of Office compatibility, I tried a few complex templates, and there seem to be a few issues on word documents, with header images not being in the right place, and elements being moved where they don't belong.
FreeOffice is free of charge to download, but the free version does lack a few features.
You probably all know about Libreoffice. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet module, a presentation app, but also a flowchart /diagram editor that also doubles as a PDF editor, and a database module comparable to Microsoft Access.
It's completely open source, doesn't cost a dime, and is installable in virtually every way you'd ever want: deb, rpm, flatpak, snap, appimage, you name it.
LibreOffice is compatible with the opendocument format, but also with MS office formats. The compatibility with openXML formats, like docx, xlsx or pptx isn't 100% perfect though.
In terms of interface, LibreOffice is super customizable: not only can it pick up your GTK or Qt theme, but you can also change its icons in the settings, and change how the interface looks and feels. By default, it uses the older menubar + toolbar layout, but you can change that into a ribbon interface, a simplified ribbon, a grouped bar, a sidebar, basically you can do whatever you want, and customize each toolbar to add or remove what you want.
There's another open source office suite for Linux, and that's OnlyOffice. It only offers the 3 basic modules: word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. It's free to download and open source, and comes as a deb, an RPM, a flatpak, an appimage, or a snap package, so anyone can get it.
OnlyOffice supports the Microsoft OpenXML document format, as well as the opendocument format that Libreoffice defaults to, and the older proprietary office formats as well. Compatibility seems better than FreeOffice, and LibreOffice, at least with my test templates. It actually seems pretty much identical to how MS office renders the same document.
In terms of interface, Onlyoffice isn't as customizable as LibreOffice: you only get a ribbon interface, and you can't change what's displayed in each toolbar. The ribbon will use a dedicated color for each program, if you use the light theme, so they're still easy to differentiate. Onlyoffice also supports interface scaling, with factors ranging from 100% to 200% with 25% increments.
Now we come to another non open source office suite, WPS Office. You get a word processor, a spreadsheet module, and a presentation module, and you also get a PDF viewer. It offers deb and RPM packages, and it's also available on flathub, and as a snap.
In terms of compatibility, WPS opens older office docs, newer office docs, as well as their own format. Compatibility seems good, at least with openXML formats, although a little bit less perfect than OnlyOffice. It should be good enough for most people.
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A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks
A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks, argues Michael Lavalette
On Thursday evening this week (3 July), the internet and โฆ
๐จ100s of ppl have already been killed across the US in storms incl deadly tornadoes -many of which were inaccurately forecasted. We're entering peak hurricane season. Meteorologist Vagasky: โThe worldโs example for weather svcs is being destroyed.โ
After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in TX -TX officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Trumpโs gutted #NWS.
โOur worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,โ wrote 5 former NWS directors from both Democratic & Republican admins in an open letter on May 2nd." #Climate #TrumpRegime #FEMA #Protest #USPol texastribune.org/2025/06/09/teโฆ
Thanks to The Times newspaper for this shocking photo of the sickening, deadly terrorism being carried out by the notorious 83yo Reverend Sue Parfitt.
Due to the prompt and courageous response of the Metropolitan Police, Rev Parfitt and her fellow terrorists are now securely detained under his Britanic Majesty's Terrorism Act.
> While storms are already hitting northern Italy with severe rainfalls. the Mediterranean today, July 5, has reached its highest values of SST daily anomaly in these months, with areas (purple) over +7 ยฐC off the coast of France,up to +7.7ยฐC #climateemergency. Data CMEMS
Whenever I know I'm likely to be surrounded by MAGAts, and I live in a red state, so it happens frequently, I wear this hat and don't break eye contact while they read it.
Millions of Muslims in Iran and across the world are commemorating Tasuโa, a day before the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein (AS), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
under hitler's days, the "autistic" kids were just creative, artistic, curious, and difficult to settle down. Half a century later, its having a strong interest in tech at a young age, and also being troublemakers.
Both hitler and modern american fascists seem interested in making lists of them, too. I wonder why?
On the other platform I am still discussing with those who did not go and vote, because of what Biden and Harris did against Gaza.
I can understand that people are angry at Biden and Harris for their policies with respect to Gaza, but allowing Trump into office does not solve that issue.
@ABScientist in the absense of a candidate who meets the very _minimum_ of requirements, which Harris very much did not, revolutionary action is the only solution, crime is the path everyone must choose, conspiracy and sabotage of state institutions involved in unethical activity is the only path
anything else is complicitness. If Harris had won and continued the genocide, everyone who voted for her would've had blood on their hands and be complicit in the mass murder as well
@amici @ABScientist how lovely for you to have the privilege to sit back and judge. Iโll be certain to tell my friend whose social program was just defunded about your moral superiority, Iโm certain theyโll be proud of letting all the people who taught nutrition and how to navigate SNAP go.
@CatDragon @ABScientist if you need to empower someone to commit mass murder in order to get government handouts, then fuck you, fuck so hard, you're awful, awful human being
that's not a price worth paying, NEVER, NEVER, EVER
@CatDragon @ABScientist I have lived on the streets eating garbage out of garbage bins, and I would do that again any day before I stooped so low as you, apparently, think is fine
@amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Iโm afraid that your rage (righteous as it is) has left you unable to reason. Voting is not like getting married, itโs like taking the bus. Get on the one that gets you closer to your desired destination. Not getting on the bus does absolutely nothing.
@johnstonphilip @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist This analogy has frustrated me so much I had to respond... especially after so rudely telling somebody they are unable to reason. If voting is like taking the bus then in your analogy you have to include that the bus, no matter who is driving, keeps running over babies. And you are saying people just need to get on board and there is no other solution? The person you are condescending to clearly thinks we should get a better driver before boarding the bus or come up with another method of driving the bus communally or another method of transportation all together. "Not getting on the bus does absolutely nothing" is so belittling to the intelligence of the person you said that to. Clearly they think it will do something and even more so they aren't advocating for just staying off the bus and doing nothing, which your analogy implies. You aren't actually being some enlightened person by telling people voting is needed over revolution
@redpy5 @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist so instead of voting you recommend a revolution. What does that look like and how are you participating in it today? Is it civil war?
@johnstonphilip @redpy5 @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist It looks like dual/parallel power, building new systems in the shadow of the old. It looks like direct action, mutual aid, and labor organizing. Community councils, horizontal power structures instead of hierarchical leadership-- which the system would only co-opt, sabotage, or assassinate anyway. The Fred Hamptons and MLKs of today get nipped in the bud, they're dead or in jail or got smart enough to stay low, the surveillance runs that deep today so now instead of waiting around for figureheads to follow we ALL have to be leaders in every small way we can manage.
Learn to see and think and live a completely different kind of world, see power and cooperation and organizing in totally new ways. That's the revolution we need now.
The nuts and bolts of it are being worked out in corners of places like Rojava and Myanmar and Chiapas and the Phillipines and those spots in the US where bookstores are getting lifesaving aid to hurricane victims faster than this broken government can.
Fuck this handbasket we're riding in. It may have "bus" painted on the side in rainbow letters and it's got Buddy Jesus for a hood ornament but make no mistake this is an orphan-crushing planetwrecking war machine that was never built to take us anywhere good. Quit feeding it.
Fuck this entire kayfabe good cop / bad cop prisoner dilemma trolley problem, it's not a choice it's a Saw movie. The trolley just keeps going in a loop and the assholes tying people to the tracks will only keep getting away with it if we don't find options better than that rigged goddamned lever that we only pull every few years anyway. There's actual work to be done. Things that CAN be done.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Again, nobody here has advocated against voting. Just saying if you want leftist politics you have you vote leftist. In the absence of a candidate who meets THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS for those of us who care, there is no other option. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. The Democratic Party holds views that were considered conservative when I was a child and the conservative party is fully fascist. As a trans person, hearing both sides abandon me politically, I have been left with no choice.
Like, yeah, vote. Just remember these are the people who regularly turn on many of us the moment they lose or stay in power too long. Nancy Pelosi chides children who protest near her and after Harris lost many Dems went mask off in their lust for abandoning trans, race and labor issues.
Voting for most Dems supported by the party is a vote for the status quo, which kills babies.
@redpy5 @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist in Canada we have a leftist 3rd party called the NDP. They routinely take votes away from the centrist liberals, meaning we get conservatives in power. So by voting for the NDP you get conservative laws shoved down your throat. This is just the reality of first past the post. I donโt like everything the liberals do but the cons are way worse. We got lucky that most NDP voters saw this and voted liberal in the last election.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist I won't claim to know your politics better than you, but provided the liberal party is in coalition with the left party, I don't see how the conservative party is granted any wins here. You seem to have higher voter turnout on average, indicating you are engaging voters better than here in the US. You seem to be faring better than the US as global fascism encroaches, tho I know it's a low bar. Seems like appearing to side with conservatives over being in coalition with the left is seen as bad and pushes the liberal party left.
Like, I don't know if you think we don't get conservative laws shoved down our throat down here by voting Democrat, I gotta tell you abortion had many chances to get codified in a Dem majority and presidency and didn't. It got overturned while Dems were in power and they did nothing to protect it. We can't even get widely popular health care without Dems reaching across the aisle to Republicans
@redpy5 @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist essentially the only time the conservatives win in Canada itโs because the left vote got split too much. Like if 40% of the country votes liberal, 15% votes NDP, and 45% votes conservative, the conservatives form government, and all 55% who voted non-conservative are essentially thrown out.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Right, but like you get more voter turnout. This is just more democracy. And fptp is bad, I don't disagree. But it seems to me like you think those 15% you claim on average, would have voted liberal anyway. I'm telling you many of them were likely not gonna vote, or even vote conservative due to their "working class" image. You are seeing how broken representative democracy, especially the zero sum version of it we have, is. You don't fix it by trying to rig it. Playing power games instead of more democracy is just more authoritarianism. There are liberals who would be more than happy to vote socialist if they would see more adoption and less slandering/"3rd parties only hurt" rhetoric. Less strategic voting and more voting for what you believe in. You know, democracy. But so many people are stuck in this game theory instead of helping people and pushing others to as well.
@redpy5 @johnstonphilip @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist The reality of first past the post voting is, the spoiler effect is a WEAPON for voter suppression that makes a mockery of democracy.
Note the same good cop / bad cop "lesser" evil strategy is what's being used in the US and in Canada and in the UK and Australia etc etc-- it IS a game alright, the sadistic neoliberal playbook that's designed to keep ratcheting everyone steadily to the right.
The Labour, Democratic, and NDP parties etc are all controlled opposition that exist to absorb activist energy into the dead-end honeypot trap of false reforms that never allow fundamental change. They pretend they're here to help, but they would rather FEED us to the monsters they are paid to pretend to fight, and LOSE ON PURPOSE, than let us push any legislation that would seriously threaten their sugar daddies. The Democratic Party deliberately helped elevate Trump to a serious candidate in the first place. On purpose. There is nothing "lesser" about the kind of evil that toys with overt fascism as cover for more sustainable and sophisticated oppression.
This is all designed to keep people clinging to the ankles of their preferred oppressor in the belief that there is no escape, and turning on our neighbors who dare to fight back. That's why 3rd parties are scapegoated and reviled, to keep the Overton Window parked firmly in the authoritarian right and fool everyone into thinking this neoliberal bullshit is the best we can hope for because all we see around us is people grudgingly resigned to shit like "pragmatic" genocide apologism and nothing genuinely good to believe in.
Thing is the world is burning. Look at the supposedly liberal parties investing in police instead of public health, and that's all you need to know to tell where they really stand and what they're going to do to us as the collapse gets worse. Everywhere, and I mean everywhere, will end up looking like Gaza unless we overhaul this whole situation.
Sure, fine, vote, whatever. Just don't spend more than maybe 1% of your time and energy on that little checkbox vs more effective things. Build community, locally-- mutual aid is much, much more than passing money to those who need it. It's unionization, cooperatives, community supported agriculture and citizen air monitoring and food banks and rent strikes and support groups and repair cafes and libraries. Look for real leadership in those places, not the dog and pony reality TV show of political offices. Figure out how to help keep your town from descending into mindless gang warfare as we increasingly lose our healthcare, housing, supply chains, and peace of mind.
@violetmadder @johnstonphilip @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Absolutely! Dockworkers unions deciding to strike to oppose weapons transfers or directly giving money to Gazans seeking assistance has done far more to help than anything the government has done. We need to act now in whatever ways we can. And that doesn't mean talking about voting/elections all day, that's for sure.
Plant some food and share with your neighbors! Start organizing at work and among fellow renters, join the local unions or start to talk to people about starting one. Start shopping more at coops and not at chains. Organize forest defense and do whatever else you can think of that needs to be done! And please help people who are struggling to pay rent or eat, or who are stuck in an abusive situation (be it a home situation or work/boss situation) to have some stablility in their lives. That is what we even have government for in the first place, right? If they won't, we need to.
@redpy5 @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist I mostly just donโt understand how, if you understand first past the post, why youโd vote for a 3rd party (on the left OR the right for that matter).
I get that it disgusts you ethically, it does for me as well, but itโs a game and the rules are already decided. Iโm just playing the game to make the world a little better, instead of a lot worse.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist You've got a party that won't throw you under the bus. Neat! I don't. Both my parties will attack my rights as a trans person. Where do you draw the line? When is your liberal government conservative enough that you do something other than voting for them/trying to primary them. And good for primary-ing them! But like, the person you jumped in to defend was talking the presidential election. There was no primary. There were two options killing babies and one was worse but the other was threatening me with the former if I didn't jump on board. I gotta put my attention on some place other than the den of evil, where some are just less evil. I'd love a socialist party, despite how you say it hurts you politically. I definitely see it hurting conservatives and the conservative wing of any liberal party.
@CatDragon @ABScientist "Hitler is really bad for gassing all those jews, homosexuals, and mentally ill people, but at least he's giving me a stable pension" - that's your fucking logic
@Cowbee The quote is commonly attributed to Jefferson in English speaking countries and to Brecht in German speaking countries but while it captures the essence of what they said and wrote the source of the exact quote is actually unknown.
Ukraine in the unfortunate geographic location to make them a pawn between UK-USA-Russia in the centuries long attempt by the west to chop Russia up and make it a new Africa
No need for pen and paper. The last column is the sum of the previous 2 columns. Because that's how Fibonacci numbers are formed. So the linear combination you need is right there in the definition. "It is trivial".
The rise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) marks an existential rupture in economic and political order, dissolving the historic boundaries between labor and capital.
From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The Evolution of Domestic Counterinsurgency in the U.S.
Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.
By the time DHS agents showed up at Mahmoud Khalilโs door, a full-spectrum campaign had already marked him as a target. Columbia professor Shai Davidai had posted Khalilโs name and image online, called him a terrorist, and urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to deport him. The smear was picked up by a network of doxxing accounts like โDocumenting Jew Hatred on Campus,โ which publicly lobbied for the revocation of Khalilโs visa. Rubio repeated the call, Khalil received death threats, and the university stayed silent. Then, federal agents arrived. A professorโs tweet had become a trigger for federal enforcement. A tweet, a tag, a dossier โ these were the new informant files. This time, professors, NGOs, and anonymous social media accounts were the new operators.
This episode captures a defining feature of our current conjuncture: counterinsurgency is no longer the exclusive domain of state intelligence agencies. It has been privatized, digitized, and reframed as โcivic action,โ with Zionist nonprofits, right-wing law firms, and data-harvesting platforms organizing in concert with universities and police departments to neutralize Palestine organizing.
Though todayโs tactics may look different, they reflect a familiar story. The FBIโs Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) was a covert program aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations deemed subversive. It is often remembered for its attacks on civil rights and Black liberation movements, but was also part of a broader Cold War strategy to suppress anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, and internationalist movements in the U.S, especially among youth.
Today, COINTELPROโs framework has been rescripted in Project Esther, an initiative launched by the Heritage Foundation in October 2024 that frames pro-Palestinian advocacy as โterrorismโ and seeks to dismantle the broader left by branding critics of Zionism as threats to national security. It calls for purging universities, defunding institutions, deporting foreign students, and weaponizing law enforcement to suppress dissent. Though marketed as an anti-antisemitism strategy, it ignores right-wing antisemitism and recycles antisemitic conspiracy theories in the service of political repression.
Thus, while these tactics may appear new, putting COINTELPRO and Project Esther in conversation reveals a continuity of structure and intent, especially vis-ร -vis the targeting of solidarity with movements abroad as a threat to national coherence. While COINTELPRO relied on federal secrecy and classified directives, todayโs repression develops through public-private coordination, open-source surveillance, and layers of plausible deniability. The outcome is a more privatized, legally ambiguous, and digitally mediated mode of disruption that launders the violence of the state through university codes, NGO reports, and data-mining activism.
This piece traces the throughlines between then and now โ not to flatten their differences, but to expose the structural consistency of U.S. counterinsurgency across decades and geographies, and to show how it has adapted to new legal regimes, digital technologies, and ideological terrains. In doing so, it frames history not as a mirror, but as a weapon that reveals patterns, clarifies stakes, and helps us chart a way through.
COINTELPROโs campus war
On February 21, 1967, the FBI sent a memorandum to all of its field offices, directing agents to enhance their counterintelligence capabilities at colleges and universities. From the late 1960s through the 1970s, university campuses became central sites of COINTELPRO operations designed to neutralize leftist campus politics. Identified as incubators of revolutionary consciousness, universities were surveilled, infiltrated, and manipulated by the FBI. At UCLA, the agencyโs covert efforts to inflame tensions between the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the rival U.S. Organization culminated in the 1969 assassination of Panthers Bunchy Carter and John Huggins. The suppression of radical student alliances, particularly those linking local racial justice demands with global liberation movements, became a template for future state efforts to fragment and delegitimize youth-led political coalitions.
COINTELPRO aggressively tried to infiltrate, discredit, and destroy the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which had grown into one of the most radical and influential youth organizations in the U.S. As SNCC aligned itself with Black Power ideologies and international liberation movements, U.S. intelligence agencies became increasingly alarmed. Amid concerns that SNCC might attend the 1965 World Youth Festival in Algiers, NSA staff proposed creating a private group to counter their potential impact.1 To destabilize SNCC from within, the FBI exploited tensions within SNCCโs leadership, pacified key figures through legal pressure, and sent forged letters to donors and community leaders, aiming to cut off financial support and damage the organizationโs credibility.
COINTELPRO also sought to sow division between groups. To capitalize on tension between the Panthers and SNCC, the FBI circulated a fake memo with text that reads, โAccording to zoologists, the main difference between a panther and other large cats is that the panther has the smallest head.โ2 The FBI memo goes on to say that โ[The statement] is biologically true. Publicity to this effect might help neutralize Black Panther recruiting efforts.โ In 1968, the FBI began telling informants that Stokely Carmichael, a prominent SNCC leader who would later change his name to Kwame Ture, was a CIA informant and to spread the message accordingly. In one incident, FBI agents posing as concerned friends called Carmichaelโs mother to inform her that Panther members wanted to kill him and that he needed to go into hiding. The decisive split between the groups was solidified by September 1970, when Huey Newton publicly announced that โWeโฆcharge that Stokely Carmichael is operating as an agent of the CIA.โ
Counterinsurgent invocations of antisemitism against Black radicals grew after SNCC became the first major Black organization to publicly adopt an anti-Zionist line. The FBI frequently accused SNCC and the Black Panthers of antisemitism to destroy their reputation among liberal sympathizers. The New York Office of the FBI proposed targeting Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Jewish Defense League, as the recipient of a fabricated letter from a supposed older Black veteran whose son had joined the Panthers. The letter falsely claimed the son and other Panthers planned to bomb Jewish stores and spread antisemitic propaganda in churches. The goal was to manipulate Kahane, whose media connections could amplify the disinformation, and incite him to act against the Panthers. The FBI planned to follow up with staged โevidenceโ like Panther publications and photographs to further bait Kahane into a confrontation. Kahane, a former member of the fascist-aligned Betar youth movement and ideological forefather to Israeli politicians like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, led groups (Kach and Kahane Chai) that remained on the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organization list for decades without a single prosecution โ until they were quietly delisted in 2022, just ahead of Ben-Gvirโs rise to power.
The New Leftโs presence on college campuses made groups like SDS another prime target of COINTELPRO operations. As it holds today, Columbiaโs visibility, location, and history put the campus at the forefront of both rebellion and repression. Columbia SDS emerged as the most influential student chapter in the country, playing a central role in the 1968 campus uprising that challenged university complicity with the Vietnam War and its occupation of Harlem. In response, the FBI launched a coordinated disinformation campaign to disrupt organizing and isolate student radicals from their families and communities. Field offices were directed to disseminate forged materials anonymously, taking โall necessary stepsโฆto protect the Bureau as its source.โ One fake letter, sent to the parents of students arrested during the 1968 Columbia uprising and signed โfather of a โbustedโ ex-student,โ encouraged recipients to cut ties with SDS: โItโs your child and your money. Help throw SDS off the campus.โ Another forged postcard advertised a fake event: โAttend the Cultural Bag of the Yearโ1968 SDS Crap Out. Do your thing. Bring your own grass, pot, whatever. Extra: Meet and gas with Mark Rudd!โ These hoaxes aimed to discredit the movement through crude caricature, sow confusion among student ranks, and stoke moral panic among middle-class families already rattled by their childrenโs radicalism. Through psychological operations and manipulation of public perception, the state sought both to dismantle SDS and delegitimize the broader student movement at its most explosive and visible node.
Yet even at the peak of its campaign, the Bureau recognized that its grip on campus life was incomplete. โIn the recent past,โ one report acknowledged, โinformant coverage of New Left organizations, particularly SDS, has been limited to off-campus informants and sources.โ Most on-campus sources were โlimited to various college officials who cooperated with this Bureau.โ The lack of direct access to student organizers posed a strategic roadblock. โThe penetration of SDS chapters by high-quality informants who are in a position to report on the plans of student activists remains a different problem,โ the memo continued.
In response, the Bureau leaned even more heavily into counterintelligence like anonymous letters, fake publications, hoaxes, and provocations designed to provoke schisms and disillusionment. โThe institution of instant counterintelligence programs,โ one report notes, combined with โthe certain disavowal of the New Left on the part of the vast majority of college students and officials,โ was expected to increase informant access and turn the tide of campus sentiment. When direct infiltration fell short, the FBI relied on disinformation and sabotage to shape outcomes.
Though campus-based counterinsurgency during the COINTELPRO era focused largely on the Black liberation struggle and the New Left, it also laid the foundation for the surveillance of internationalist movements that would heighten in the following decade. As the state pivoted to confront new forms of dissent shaped by anti-colonial and anti-Zionist politics, its counterintelligence strategies adapted, expanding beyond Black, Puerto Rican, Indigenous, and New Left radicals to include Arab and Palestinian organizers.
The long arm of anti-Palestinian repression
The aftermath of the 1967 war marked a turning point in the surveillance of Arab American political activity. As Palestinians and other Arabs in the diaspora began organizing more visibly in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, they became immediate targets of federal surveillance. While Black, Puerto Rican, and Indigenous radicals had long been monitored under COINTELPRO, the state repression of Arab activists post-1967 added a layer of anti-Palestinian racism and Cold War geopolitics fused to conflate Arab dissent with foreign subversion.
In the early 1970s, the Nixon administration launched Operation Boulder, a coordinated campaign of surveillance, interrogation, and intimidation targeting Arabs and Arab Americans, particularly students, under the guise of national security. While publicly framed as a response to the events in Munich in 1972, Boulder had roots in a longer history of repression that began years earlier, driven by Zionist lobbying in the wake of 1967.
Surveillance of Arab students began in earnest after Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. That same year, the FBI began monitoring the Organization of Arab Students (OAS) and the Association of Arab American University Graduates (AAUG). Flagging student support for Palestinian resistance and Third World anti-imperialist movements as cause for alarm, Congress member Gerald Ford stoked fears of โPeking-trained agitators from the Middle East.โ The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) played a leading role in this counterinsurgency, often infiltrating the OAS conventions and meetings. One ADL intelligence report concedes that โThe political activity of the Arab students in the United States will increase significantly in the coming school year (1969โ70) with increasing effectiveness. They are beginning to display a much greater understanding of how to present their arguments to the various levels of the American publicโฆand any successes are certain to increase their confidence and, hence, their activity.โ As Arab organizers became more visible, the stateโs response shifted from observation to preemptive disruption. The fact that Arab student politics were becoming more legible, compelling, and harder to dismiss provoked immense fear amongst intelligence agencies.
Although both the CIA and FBI fell short on evidence, they continued to frame the OAS as a conduit for โfedayeen propaganda,โ warning that their political organizing could accelerate. This speculative threat justified placing Arab students under the scope of COINTELPRO. By 1970, โpotential Arab saboteursโ were officially added to the programโs targets, citing potential for future violence as grounds for surveillance.
As the surveillance of Arab political activity escalated with COINTELPRO, Operation Boulder operationalized this intelligence framework into a formalized immigration enforcement campaign. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began systematically interrogating thousands of Arab students under the pretense of checking visa compliance. They routinely asked invasive questions about political views, factional affiliation, and opinions on Zionism. Some were searched, surveilled, or referred to the FBI. Minor visa infractions, typically ignored for other students, became grounds for deportation if the student expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments. This repression was often carried out in coordination with Israeli intelligence and Zionist organizations, a long-term partnership that continues to this day.
In tandem with state repression, far-right Zionist organizations attempted to physically intimidate and silence Palestinian organizing. Most notably, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) carried out a campaign of bombings and harassment throughout the 1970s and 1980s, targeting Arab American individuals and institutions across Los Angeles. These included the 1972 bombing of Palestinian immigrant Mohammed Shaathโs apartment, attacks on the Lebanese consulate, and the 1985 assassination of Alex Odeh, the West Coast director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), killed by a pipe bomb at his Santa Ana office. Despite strong suspicion of JDL involvement and public statements of support for the attacks by its leader, Irv Rubin, none of this vigilante violence was ever prosecuted.
In the 1980s and 1990s, this repression expanded beyond individual targets into broader Palestinian communities. The Los Angeles 8 โ a group of seven Palestinians and one Kenyan arrested in 1987 โ were long-term residents and community organizers in Southern California. They were initially charged under the McCarran-Walter Act with โpromoting world communism,โ based on their alleged support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). After successfully challenging these charges on constitutional grounds, the government pivoted to using immigration and anti-terrorism laws to continue pursuing them. At the same time, the Reagan administration proposed secret concentration camps to detain tens of thousands of Arabs in a hypothetical โnational emergency.โ
One of the lesser-known FBI operations during this era was Operation Vulgar Betrayal, which focused on Bridgeview, Illinois, a predominantly Palestinian suburb outside of Chicago. Launched in the early 1990s and running for over a decade, the operation subjected mosques, community centers, and individuals to extreme FBI surveillance, often with no publicly stated basis beyond vague claims of โterrorism financing.โ A central target was Muhammad Salah, a Palestinian Bridgeview resident, who in 1993 became the first U.S. citizen placed on a terrorist watchlist. He was later the first U.S. citizen designated as a Specially Designated National (SDN) by the Treasury Department, a designation that was ultimately withdrawn following a legal challenge.
After the signing of the Oslo Accords, the FBI began to monitor and wiretap conversations of members of the Palestine Committee in the U.S., a network of Palestinians engaged in Islamic political organizing and community work, which, at the time, operated legally within the U.S. and predated the State Departmentโs formal terrorist designation system. When the Palestine Committee held a three-day meeting in Philadelphia later that year, the FBI placed wiretaps inside the Marriott hotel and later introduced these transcripts as evidence during the Holy Land Five trials in 2007 and 2008.
During this period, federal agencies increasingly collaborated with private actors and entities engaged in surveillance and ideological warfare against Palestinian and Muslim communities. Chief among them was Steve Emerson, a self-styled terrorism expert and founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT). Emerson played a pivotal role in the 1990s targeting of the Palestine Committee and Sami al-Arian and has continued to work as a key purveyor of Islamophobic disinformation. In recent years, his operations have come under renewed scrutiny. In 2021, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) revealed that multiple individuals had been paid by Emerson and IPT to infiltrate Muslim organizations and secretly record prominent community leaders, one of whom was compensated over $100,000 across four years.
This counterinsurgency was soon followed by far-reaching legislation designed to criminalize support for Palestinian political groups and factions. Although the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act initially limited โmaterial supportโ to traditional forms like money and arms, the 2001 PATRIOT Act greatly expanded this to include vague categories such as โexpert adviceโ and โpersonnel.โ The Supreme Court upheld this expansion in the 2010 decision Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, effectively criminalizing any advocacy in coordination with blacklisted groups. These laws have been used to target groups like Hamas, the PFLP, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)โnotably in the cases of Sami al-Arian and the Holy Land Foundation Five, whose leaders were imprisoned amid secretive and politically charged trials.
The stateโs surveillance and repression of anti-imperialist Arab and Palestinian political work, which gained traction in the wake of 1967 and expanded through operations like Boulder and Vulgar Betrayal, laid the foundations for what would become the post-9/11 security state. These earlier campaigns combined immigration enforcement, domestic intelligence, and foreign policy interests to proactively target political dissent. After 9/11, these tools were revived and vastly intensified. Practices that had once been exceptional or covert became normalized and institutionalized, as the program of campus surveillance and political suppression was reactivated under the mandate of counterterrorism. The War on Terror should be understood as a continuation of the domestic warfare of COINTELPRO, inheriting its toolkit and applying it with broader reach, deeper coordination, and the legitimizing language of national security.
The War on Terror period
U.S. intelligence agencies have long exploited university resources, global reach, and access to young people. During the height of COINTELPRO, FBI and CIA operatives surveilled foreign students, monitored leftist faculty, and infiltrated student organizations. Church Committee hearings in the 1970s exposed the scale of these operations, with hundreds of university personnel found to be collaborating with the CIA, some knowingly, many under the pretense of โnational interest.โ
Though the public exposure of these programs temporarily forced agencies to scale back their operations, the groundwork remained largely intact. In the years following September 11, 2001, U.S. intelligence agencies strengthened their presence on college campuses, reinstating Cold War and COINTELPRO-era tactics under the banner of counterterrorism. However, unlike previous decades, when such action often sparked public scandal or internal pushback, the post-9/11 period saw the university increasingly reimagined as a willing partner in the project of domestic national security. Administrators formalized liaisons with intelligence and law enforcement agencies, launched degree programs in security, and competed for federal designations as โcenters of excellenceโ in intelligence, cyber-operations, and surveillance technology. Entire research labs were devoted to government-funded projects with classified components, often hosted off-campus in facilities shielded from public scrutiny.
In short, what changed after 9/11 was not so much the tactics but the terms of cooperation. Where there was once scandal and subterfuge, there is now formal partnership. Surveillance is no longer framed as exceptional, but as responsible management of an uncertain world.
The NYPDโs infiltration of Muslim Student Associations (MSAs) across New York City illustrates a staggering expansion of this kind of surveillance into academic life. On the basis of โpublic safety,โ the NYPDโs Intelligence Division, through its Cyber Intelligence, Demographics, and Terrorist Interdiction Units, undertook a dragnet surveillance program that treated religious identity itself as inherently suspicious. Between 2002 and the early 2010s, MSAs on at least 31 campuses were subjected to systemic surveillance, including the deployment of undercover officers, cyber monitoring, and the coercive recruitment of informants. Public campuses under the City University of New York (CUNY) system were a primary focus. These schools, often serving low-income and immigrant students, became saturated sites of observation, where ordinary student activities were reinterpreted through the lens of state paranoia. Accordingly, the NYPD logged paintball trips as paramilitary training exercises and religious expression, such as prayer or wearing a hijab, as radicalization indicators in government databases.
The NYPDโs Cyber Intelligence Unit routinely monitored chat rooms, blogs, email listservs, and Yahoo groups, tracking content and interpersonal connections. In one case, an NYPD informant embedded himself so deeply in MSA activities that he slept over at fellow studentsโ homes, prayed with them, and was entrusted with spiritual guidance, only to be later revealed as an informant whose original recruitment stemmed from a minor drug charge. For many students, especially those from immigrant families for whom higher education represented opportunity and upward mobility, the risk of being labeled a suspect was enough to retreat entirely from campus life.
Project Esther and the rise of civic counterinsurgency
While government agencies have long surveilled and repressed dissent on campuses, todayโs moment marks an evolution in the form of a network of privatized and semi-autonomous actors engaging in what could be called civic counterinsurgency.
A rhizomatic anti-antisemitism industry emerged in the 2010s, composed of groups like Canary Mission, Betar USA, StopAntisemitism.org, JewBelong, and other donor-funded watchdogs and legal outfits. These organizations share a common objective of criminalizing and delegitimizing Palestine solidarity activism by portraying it as foreign-backed, antisemitic, and dangerous. They comb through social media, compile anonymous dossiers, and collaborate with law enforcement to surveil and suppress Palestine organizing, especially on campuses. Whereas the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) once served as the primary arbiter of acceptable political speech on these issues, that role has increasingly been assumed by this diffuse network of private actors engaged in a broader project of civic repression.
The civic counterinsurgency model makes this repression harder to trace. We now see students surveilled, harassed, and disciplined not only by the state but by an entire ecosystem of privatized enforcers who disguise their repression using the language of safety, civility, and anti-extremism.
Project Esther represents the newest cornerstone of the anti-antisemitism industry. Created by the Heritage Foundation, Project Esther declares its mission as identifying and dismantling what it calls a โhighly organized, global Hamas Support Network (HSN).โ This network, as they define it, includes โpeople and organizations that are both directly and indirectly involved in furthering Hamasโs cause in contravention of American values and to the detriment of American citizens and Americaโs national security interests.โ
In Project Estherโs framework, the HSN is both antisemitic and fundamentally โanti-American.โ The threat is framed in explicitly civilizational terms. โFor al-Qaeda and all others of their ilk, including Hamas,โ its founding document declares, โthere is never any distinction between the West, the United States and Christians, and Israel and Jews: all are targets.โ From this premise follows the conclusion that โProject Esther cannot be a solely โJewishโ effort โ it must be an American effort.โ This represents a notable shift from earlier iterations of anti-Palestine solidarity groups such as Canary Mission and others, which were largely assumed to be rooted within Jewish community networks. Project Esther, by contrast, explicitly frames itself as a broad national initiative, distancing itself from being solely a Jewish communal project and openly embracing a broader right-wing coalition.
Project Esther relies on digital monitoring, facial recognition, AI-assisted data mining, and social media scraping to map associations between individuals, organizations, and actions. It uses behavioral modeling and predictive policing to repress resistance before it can coalesce. Surveillance is not limited to public behavior; it includes the collection of social media posts, protest footage, travel records, and group chats. These data are shared among campus police, university administrations, the Department of Homeland Security, and private security firms, creating a vertically integrated surveillance network.
Fracturing the movement from within is central to Project Estherโs strategy. Drawing directly from counterinsurgency manuals, it aims to sow distrust among organizations, isolate so-called โradicals,โ and generate internal divisions. As its founding document plainly states, the goal is to ensure that โHSOs do not trust each other.โ This also indicates their clear knowledge that they are fabricating a narrative, as it would be far more challenging to foster such distrust among actual, closely knit organizations. In the wake of high-profile incidents like the Elias Rodriguez case, federal agencies are likely monitoring how groups respond and flagging differences in tone or language as indicators of political fault lines to exploit.
Infiltration is a reality that cannot be ignored at this stage of the struggle. Student organizations have been secretly recorded and leaked to administrators and the police. In some instances, internal organizing materials have been circulated to media outlets within hours. In one leaked recording from a closed-door briefing, Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL admits that โOur analysts are in their groups,โ he said, referencing SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace. Beyond collecting intelligence, these tactics are meant to sow distrust and stall momentum.
At the University of Michigan, the privatization counterinsurgency has enabled a new level of invasive, targeted repression against Palestine solidarity organizers. Between 2023 and 2025, the university spent over $3 million contracting a private security firm, City Shield, to infiltrate and monitor pro-Palestinian student groups. Undercover agents followed students across campus and into their neighborhoods, recorded them without consent, and in some cases faked disabilities or staged confrontations to provoke them. Surveillance footage collected by these agents was shared with law enforcement and used by the university in disciplinary proceedings. Multiple students were charged, some jailed, and at least one was sentenced based on City Shieldโs fabricated or unverified claims.
Legal repression forms another core component of Project Estherโs strategy. Project Esther advocates the use of racketeering statutes (RICO), the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), material support for terrorism laws, and selective enforcement of immigration law to target individuals and organizations associated with Palestine solidarity work. In particular, the initiative supports stripping tax-exempt status from nonprofit organizations deemed sympathetic to Palestinian liberation, an effort sometimes referred to as the โNonprofit Killer Bill.โ
These legal tools are most aggressively used against non-citizens, as we have seen with the attempted targeted deportation of pro-Palestinian students based on political activity. The political function of Project Esther becomes even clearer when read alongside efforts by Republican attorneys general to investigate or revoke the visas of international students protesting the genocide in Gaza.
This legal repression works in conjunction with discursive maneuvers that cast Palestine solidarity as a national security threat. In 2024, right-wing think tanks and Zionist legal groups launched a coordinated campaign to discredit National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), accusing the organization of supporting terrorism and acting as an agent of a foreign power. These claims, heavily promoted by the Middle East Forum, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), and the Capital Research Center, try to materially connect the activities of SJP chapters to those of the Axis of Resistance, mainly Hamas. The aforementioned ADL leak alleges โa dramatic change in the languageโ in the rhetoric of student organizers, leading Greenblatt to the assertion that โsomething is happening with Iran,โ whose โlanguage and tactics seem to be bleeding into the American activist space.โ These allegations operate less as claims of fact than as instruments of suspicion that racialize and securitize dissent by associating it with an external โenemy.โ
Much like COINTELPRO leveraged Cold War anti-communism, Project Esther uses the pretext of โforeign influenceโ to criminalize anti-imperialist organizing. Anti-communism has long served as an ideological framework and a rationale for the disruption of networks connecting radicals in the imperial core to the Global South. The American Indian Movement, the Young Lords, Brown Berets, SDS, SNCC, and the Black Panther Party were viewed as domestic threats specifically because they called U.S. sovereignty into question. Todayโs rhetorical assault on NSJP invokes this equation of international solidarity with subversion, only now, Islamophobia and anti-terrorism are the primary vectors of legitimacy.
The central allegation is that NSJP was founded by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a U.S.-based nonprofit that has long been subjected to Zionist lawfare for its advocacy. Critics of NSJP point to the fact that AMPโs founders were previously involved in organizations like the Holy Land Foundation and KindHearts, charities that were dismantled through protracted legal campaigns in the post-9/11 era after being accused of funneling money to Hamas. The attempt to tie AMP and NSJP to Hamas relies on tenuous connections โ shared individuals, decades-old affiliations, ideological opposition to Israeli state policy, and speculative legal theories.
Some of the more extreme claims suggest that Hamas provided advance notice of the October 7 attack to NSJP, an assertion so blatantly absurd that it exemplifies absolute impunity from truth. Given the extreme secrecy surrounding the operation, which was deliberately concealed even from key Axis of Resistance partners and other Hamas bureaus, the notion that such sensitive information would be shared with a U.S. student organization is entirely illogical and ludicrous.
Columbia University: a case study in converging crackdowns
During the 2024โ2025 school year, Columbia Universityโs Palestine student movement faced intensified repression across physical, legal, and digital fronts. Social media platforms, acting as privatized arms of state surveillance, began systematically shutting down key nodes of communication: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestineโs Instagram account, with over 100,000 followers, was banned by Meta; the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) account was disabled ahead of a planned protest at Barnard; and the Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalitionโs account was removed without warning in May 2025. These synchronized takedowns point to a pattern in which corporate platforms function as algorithmic enforcers of political orthodoxy, responding to pressure campaigns from alumni, donors, and Zionist NGOs embedded in the anti-antisemitism industry.
This digital censorship was shaped by direct intervention from Jordana Cutler, Metaโs policy chief for Israel and a former senior Israeli government official, who has used her position to push for the removal of pro-Palestinian content under Metaโs โDangerous Organizations and Individualsโ policy. Cutler, who has publicly described herself as โa voice of the [Israeli] governmentโ within the company, personifies the merging of platform governance and foreign policy interests that operate through byzantine, asymmetrical mechanisms. While Israelis are granted a dedicated liaison within Meta, no such representation exists for Palestinians.
The Columbia administration created the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) at the start of the 2024-25 academic year as a separate channel for handling discrimination and harassment complaints that bypasses standard student conduct procedures. Under an expansive interpretation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the office treats generalized criticism of Zionism as โdiscriminatory harassment.โ Dozens of students have been targeted through secretive proceedings initiated by anonymous complaints submitted via a public web portal. Columbia students familiar with the OIE report that the office frequently relies on complaints submitted by Zionist student groups or ideologically aligned individuals elsewhere in the university. Upon being notified they are under investigation, students are required to sign restrictive non-disclosure agreements to view the unredacted evidence against them. Former prosecutors staff the OIE and operate with little transparency or due process, enabling provisional punishments such as suspension or diploma holds even before any finding of misconduct. Students can also be punished for โfailure to reportโ perceived discrimination.
On March 7, 2025, the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, Health and Human Services, and the General Services Administration jointly announced the termination of nearly $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia. The order was issued by the Trump administrationโs newly formed Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, a multi-agency body with broad enforcement authority. Officials emphasized this was only the โfirst roundโ of revocations and floated the possibility of placing Columbia under a federal consent decree. University officials quickly passed the consequences down the line: over 180 employees whose positions relied on federal funds were laid off, which redirected public anger toward student organizers rather than the federal agencies and political actors engineering the crackdown. This redirection is a hallmark of counterinsurgency that seeks to fracture solidarity, isolate the movement, and mystify the source of repression.
The counterinsurgency campaign extended beyond Columbiaโs institutional sphere to target individual students, with Mahmoud Khalil emerging as the public face of this crackdown. In January 2025, Canary Mission, an anonymous blacklist site reportedly linked to Israelโs Ministry of Strategic Affairs, created a profile on Khalil. Within days, Betar USA publicly named him as a deportation target and claimed to have shared his information with ICE. After a March 5 protest at Barnard, Columbia Business School professor Shai Davidai tagged Senator Marco Rubio in a tweet demanding Khalilโs deportation: โIllegally taking over a college in which you are not even enrolled and distributing terrorist propaganda should be a deportable offense, no? Because thatโs what Mahmoud Khalil from @ColumbiaSJP did yesterday at @BarnardCollege.โ The claim was false. Khalil is not a member of Columbia SJP, and Columbia SJP had no role in organizing the protest. However, it circulated widely and helped catalyze a broader smear campaign. The day before ICE detained him, with assistance from Columbiaโs administration, Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus picked up Davidaiโs framing on X. The sequence of events suggests a coordinated effort between federal agencies, online Zionist advocacy groups, and university collaborators to orchestrate Khalilโs targeting. On May 29, his legal team filed a FOIA request seeking records of communications between the Trump administration and figures in the anti-antisemitism industry, including Canary Mission, Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus, and affiliated individuals.
In early 2025, the Department of Justice launched a sweeping investigation into CUAD and affiliated student organizers. Led by Trump appointee Emil Bove III, the probe sought membership lists, Instagram data, and explored coordination with ICE. A federal judge twice rejected search warrant requests, citing constitutional concerns. Nevertheless, the Department of Justice continues to press its case.
On April 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a sealed motion asking the Southern District of New York to override a magistrate judgeโs denial of a search warrant targeting the Instagram account @cuapartheiddivest. Prosecutors argued that a March 14 post from the account constituted a criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. ยง 875(c), which prohibits interstate threats to injure.
The post featured a photo of Columbia President Katrina Armstrongโs residence marked with red paint, graffiti reading โFREE THEM ALL,โ and a black inverted triangle. Its caption read in part: โThe Columbia Presidentโs mansion has been redecoratedโฆKatrina Armstrong you will not be allowed peace as you sic NYPD officers and ICE agents on your own students for opposing the genocide of the Palestinian people.โ
According to the DOJ, the post met the legal threshold for a โtrue threatโ and was not protected by the First Amendment. Prosecutors claimed there was โprobable cause to believeโ the post was made โwith the intent to place the administrator in fear of bodily harm.โ
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn had rejected three iterations of the warrant, ruling that the post likely constituted protected political speech. In its appeal, the DOJ faulted Netburn for narrowing her analysis to โthe statement โyou will not be allowed peaceโ and the inverted triangle,โ arguing she ignored the โfull contextโ of CUADโs rhetoric and actions. The filing reads: โAn email reading simply โwe plan to visit you soonโ has one meaning if the sender is a door-to-door sales agency, and quite another if it is the Ku Klux Klan.โ
The DOJ is now asking District Judge John Koeltl to find the denial โclearly erroneousโ or to issue the warrant directly. If granted, Meta would be compelled to hand over account data for @cuapartheiddivest. A ruling is pending.
On May 7, 2025, 81 students and community members were arrested by the NYPDโs Strategic Response Group after establishing the Basel al-Araj Popular University inside Columbia Universityโs Butler Library. In the days following the protest, Senator Marco Rubio called for a full review of the visa status of all students involved. Shortly after, the Columbia administration escalated its response, sending a questionnaire to students facing disciplinary action. The questionnaire asked pointed questions like, โHow did you become aware of the planned demonstration?โ โDid you make a conscious decision to remain in the room after being instructed to disperse? Please explain.โ and โDid you bring any materials related to the protest on May 7, 2025 (e.g., banners, stickers, drums, megaphones) into the library? If yes, what materials did you bring, and how did you obtain these materials?โ This line of questioning shows the administrationโs effort to punish the students while also mapping political networks, assessing intent, and preempting future mobilizations.
The convergence of state power and civil society proxiesโuniversity boards, tech platforms, media outlets, philanthropic foundations, donor-funded lawfare groups, consulting firms, and think tanksโbrings to the fore counterinsurgencyโs privatization. These forces are not only parallel but increasingly coordinated, as universities have hired private security, devised new codes of conduct, and shared student data with law enforcement. The anti-antisemitism industry has become a vehicle for ideological enforcement through financial coercion, reputational sabotage, and lawfare. In this feedback loop, civic actors generate the justification, and the state supplies the force.
The domestic arm of Empire
Repression reveals what the state fears most. If we understand the U.S. state as fundamentally imperial, then its domestic repression cannot be disentangled from its foreign policy. Counterinsurgency at home mirrors U.S. strategies abroad. COINTELPRO functioned as a domestic arm of imperial war, designed to neutralize liberation movements that posed a material threat to U.S.-led imperialism. Today, Project Esther attempts to do the same to the Palestine solidarity movement, this time with the help of civil society proxies.
Project Estherโs preoccupation with โanti-Americanismโ is noteworthy. Although it claims to target what it deems antisemitic, the deepest threat, in the eyes of the state, is anti-imperialism. The same fear that animated the FBIโs war on SNCC, SDS, and the Black Panther Party now animates its repression of students organizing for Gaza. Anti-imperialist internationalism is dangerous to the U.S. because it breaks the isolation on which repression depends.
The accusations leveled against student organizers of foreign coordination, terrorist affiliation, or espionage are fabricated and politically motivated. But they also reflect an underlying truth that Palestine solidarity, in its more radical formations, poses a real threat to the legitimacy and continuity of U.S. empire. When students reject the settler logic of the Zionist state, they are also rejecting the broader scaffolding of U.S. military hegemony, settler colonialism, and permanent war. It is precisely this alignment with a global resistance to imperial power that renders such movements dangerous, not because they are orchestrated from abroad, but because they articulate a domestic refusal of the geopolitical status quo.
Project Esther is not COINTELPRO 2.0. It is, however, part of the same infrastructure of counterinsurgency, updated for the age of digital repression. Recognizing these continuities helps us build a strategic response grounded in historical movement memory that refuses fragmentation, cultivates discipline, and sustains struggle across generations.
In order to resist effectively, we must remember that we are not the first to be targeted. There is a lineage of struggle beneath our feet. Through understanding the script, we begin to uncover the means to resist it. We begin to remember how our elders fought back, and how we can as well.
Carrie Zaremba Carrie Zaremba is a writer and organizer based in Brooklyn whose work focuses on student movements, internationalism, and counter-repression. She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) Solidarity Network and a proud Students for Justice in Palestine alum.
Notes
1. p. 299 of Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIAโs Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism โฉ๏ธ
2. G.C. Moore to W.C. Sullivan, Oct. 10, 1968. also cited in Agents of Repression The FBIโs Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Second Edition by Ward Churchill โฉ๏ธ
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The poem includes references to the ridiculous pearl-clutching cancel-culture men who stole my Black&Write Fellowship. Those fuckers stole my award, but not my voice!
Next week, I get to read it live at an event in Adelaide titled Narrative Sabotage. I love being a writer โฃ๏ธ
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A calm guide to networking as an introvertโlearn how posture, presence, and small signals can help you connect meaningfully without faking extroversion.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
(update: nothing in several days, please i need help)
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
(update: nothing in several days, i promise im not one of the scambots, please i need help)
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
hello! my name is rachael. i am a trans woman trapped in a red state. i live with my disabled partner and two dogs. i was fired from my previous job for being trans. since then, i have diligently searched for new employment, but no one local wants to hire a trans person, and remote jobs are increasingly rare.
as i continue my job search, i need to maintain a roof over our heads. we need to continue to survive as i continue my efforts. as such, i am asking for help making rent as well as paying our utilities and other bills. this will allow us to stay safe as i try to navigate the professional world's rampant transphobia.
additionally, i am eager to hear of any job opportunities you may be able to refer me to. i have a decade of experience in software development, with my previous role of six years being a senior fullstack position that included project planning, management, and maintenance, as well as mentorship and client communication. i am open to any position, even entry-level, that is either remote or in seattle or indianapolis. i hope to relocate to seattle as soon as possible, but i will do what i need to survive.
our goal is $2500. i know, thats a lot. thats why im starting this post with three weeks until rent is due. anything you can give would be wildly appreciated and help keep us safe.
if you want to give through another platform, send it to one of the many options @vantablack has listed in their profile. they are very kind and forward donations along to me.
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
MUTUAL AID - RENT - $0/2500 
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