Posted on 04/29/2024 6:37:18 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours.
But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “ Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
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That’s because their brains aren’t fully developed yet.
https://canarymission.org/individual/Maryam_Alwan
Maryam Alwan has expressed support for terrorism, promoted incitement, called for Israel’s destruction and spread hatred of Israel as an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As of January 2024, Alwan was an organizer with the SJP chapter at Columbia University (Columbia SJP). In November 2023, she called [00:00:18] herself “a proud member of SJP.”
On October 9, 2023, Columbia SJP expressed support for the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023. The war crimes and atrocities against Israeli civilians included mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings. The attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Alwan is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Alwan is affiliated with the anti-Israel activist groups Within Our Lifetime (WOL) and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), as well as Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
As of March 2024, Alwan was listed in the Columbia online directory as a student in the School of General Studies, affiliated with the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society. Columbia is located in New York, New York.
As of January 2024, Alwan was listed as a “fourth-year [student]...in the dual degree program between Sciences Po [Paris Institute of Political Studies] and Columbia, majoring in politics and government with a focus on the Middle East…and comparative literature and society.”
College protesters want ‘amnesty.’
Translation:
We stepped in some shit.
yep lol
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