Framed another way, it should be damning that the US govt DIDN'T STEP IN to protect students on college campuses from violent zionists and fascist police forces
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I haven't seen anything yet... The closest thing to elite coordination that I'm aware of was the WhatsApp chats and some zooms.
I think there was a mix of intimidation and also collaboration with colleges. Putting several collage presidents through 5 hours of grilling on their "handling of antisemitism" on their campuses can only read as intimidation to me. After these hearings, a wave of reports about what the "Biden administration is doing to combat antisemitism" were released. Here are some links I found in my searches.
- https://www.npr.org/2023/12/08/1218314691/after-a-disastrous-testimony-three-college-presidents-face-calls-to-resign
- https://apnews.com/article/harvard-penn-mit-president-congress-intifada-193a1c81e9ebcc15c5dd68b71b4c6b71
- https://apnews.com/article/biden-gaza-israel-jewish-congress-f2f84c9e7c52345c35e5cb4c2d00a417
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-actions-combat-antisemitism-college-campuses-rcna122712
- https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/07/biden-harris-administration-ramps-up-actions-to-counter-antisemitism-on-college-campuses-and-protect-jewish-communities/
- https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/25/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-releases-first-ever-u-s-national-strategy-to-counter-antisemitism/
- https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf
Don't try and beat libs with facts. They're like dogs; they only hear your tone. You can't always communicate every idea.
Commenting so I can find this again. I would assume the answer is yes, as you have, but I haven't seen anything definitive.
Yeah I'm just kind of shocked that there apparently isn't any evidence of federal coordination of a nation wide violent police response. It's a lot easier for me to accept "The feds helped/coordinated/did it" than believing a bunch of useless uni admins pulled together effective national scale police repression without help, especially given the enormous number of mechanisms that have been built up since 9/11 for exactly this kind of wide-spread repression.
but who's going to report on it?
Iirc it took a while after Occupy before we got the confirmation that the feds were working hand in hand with the banks to shut down the protests. I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
On my campus I gather that the administration called an FBI anti-terrorism hotline when protestors entered the admin building, and after that the campus police kicked off their wave of repression. I can try to find something concrete.