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[@DanA-nl5uo]

Apparently the 1st amendment doesn't apply to criticism of Israel

[@user-ze7ds1lu1c]

Yes ssssss

[@user-hh8rl7ys9j]

Yes , Natenyahu is the leader of the world, Natenyahu and Putin are partners in crime.

[@andygauvin9474]

@@MrNufzed You're misreading the comment.

[@reubenmorris487]

The students are being trespassed. They could care less about their protesting...

[@mariarod6998]

Sure doesn’t

[@kitiamuriel]

These students and free thinkers of all age are the ones who are making America great. 1968 is in the air. Free Palestine, free America, free the whole world!

[@craigb8228]

But what is the solution. Fussing without solution is bitching.

[@brucefelter1335]

FROM ALL TERRORISM! Whining doesn't make America great, Critical thinking does! Why no protest of Hamas abuse and disregard for all Gazans, while their handlers live in luxury? Where is the Hamas aid for the Gazans they have put in harms way? Getting tired of Amy's emotionally slanted reporting. It USED TO BE THE FACTS FROM BOTH SIDES.

[@bobsanborn2395]

Right-On, Kitia!

[@Magic-mushrooms113]

@@craigb8228well get rid of the Israel connection, give up on world domination, stop living in a state of exception, get rid of the two party system, free Gaza and stop interfering in other countries, disband NATO and stop constantly posturing for War. The enemy isn’t Russia it’s this war mongering attitude the constant search for dominance. How about that for a solution?.

[@paddyholly2184]

Ironically the DNC Convention is in Chicago this year. The Kent State Massacre didn't happen until 1970. Those cops Love going after students and the Muslims they've been taught to Hate, is a bonus.

[@HebatiaCa]

These students are the most brave people in this city

[@bobterrana6554]

Useful idiots

[@CharmDupes1300]

Not really.

[@paddyholly2184]

​@@CharmDupes1300 Bet yer Still celebrating the J6 rioters?

[@thomasholt63]

​@@paddyholly2184yeah he was the one who was going back and forth with sticks and stones😅

[@CharmDupes1300]

@@paddyholly2184 Not. I am liberal that's also a realist.

[@YTPartyTonight]

56 years to that day... I was born in January 1968. I was an infant then and I'm a 56-year-old man now. I support these students.

[@johnlindblom1430]

Another big anniversary coming may 4th 1970 Kent State. Will we need CSNY.

[@YTPartyTonight]

@@johnlindblom1430 DEVO.

[@kitiamuriel]

Month of May, myself. In our billions we support students and people of all age, activists like CODEPINK as well as artists , organisations and individuals. We stand for a different society, based on health and beauty and knowledge for all, and we stand for Palestine!

[@nsbd90now]

Born 10 years before you. I too support the students, and have only ever moved to the left throughout my adult life.

[@nsbd90now]

@@YTPartyTonight "We Must Repeat"

[@ChristinaGerlach]

Free America of Israel, not only for the sake of the Palestinian people, but also for the sake of the American people.

[@craigb8228]

A racist person would say this.

[@jmc4935]

This. We have allowed Foreign interference by Israel that has influenced Capitol Hill. If this were Russia or China, we'd be singing a different tune, but because it's Israel it's anti semitic. The Israeli Super PACs have overwhelmed our House and Senate, and now wield their foreign power over our country and policy. I never thought the Far Right would be right about how much power Israel wields, but now we can see it for what it is: foreign interference by state actors against the interest of the American people. We, the United States, are now a vassal state to Israel and they wield ALL the power.

[@danrichards2554]

free us of Christians too.

[@Let_the_truth_be_known]

How do you separate the head from the body?

[@richardhaberkorn5191]

Ah, it's not the israelies that america has to be concerned with

[@MrCoralBlac]

Peace is not merely the absence of conflict but the presence of justice.

[@user-qf1zg4zz8j]

Well said and very appropriate.

[@meloneypullen8746]

❤

[@paddyholly2184]

When you look at how marginalized blacks, browns, reds, immigrants etc. Still are in The USA ...... I can't see there being any Peace in that Godforsaken Land.

[@PLe-studio]

WOW….i remember America criticized China of how violent and how Chinese government violated the right of freedom of speech not long ago. Look at what happening now across America, I don’t know how to think and what is freedom of speech anymore.

[@CD-ev2vy]

Just more hypocrisy

[@user-qf1zg4zz8j]

I wonder if Xi Jinping showed Blinken the coverage of US Campuses on his phone while Blinken was giving him a lecture on human rights and free speech. I would have done.

[@213kilacali]

That would’ve been hilarious lol

[@paddyholly2184]

Hating on Black People has been tRumped by the Hate on Muslims.

[@raziyehseifi4709]

Freedom in the definition of America and all oppressors means nudity. No one has the right to speak against America and Israel's child-killing regime. America uses the word freedom to incite the people of other countries to start civil war and weaken the governments.

[@fahadfaruqi3827]

in other words... its been 56 years and yet we are still there

[@thomasholt63]

All demonic souls government officials are still stuck on stupid 😅😅😅

[@pacotaco1246]

nothing about the system fundamentally changed

[@jamalboomworld]

AND CONGO.?

[@abdell75roussos]

@@pacotaco1246 Ironic that the left created cancel culture eh? Woke left means loosing a job for having a conservative opinion. You people really need to get new from varied sources, and then you might have a better picture. Also there is a book called 'hollowed out'. btw, more votes for Trump.

[@nemo17923]

Long live the student revolution

[@Bavafa1]

1776 - Independence from England tyranny 2024 - Independence from AIPAC tyranny

[@martinportelance138]

... Now that's some uphill battle. The odds are heavily stacked.

[@moodygirl609]

@@martinportelance138 Yes, the odds are heavily stacked with millions of dollars to politicians who don't seem to mind being bought.

[@arcanondrum6543]

Prior to the America's rebellion, no previous British Colony had successfully expelled British Rule. Game On Isreal.

[@BuckarooBonzai]

Well said

[@Bavafa1]

@@martinportelance138 very true but our independence is worth the fight

[@Haqparast258]

please please stop the genocide and relentless destruction in Gaza 😢😢

[@cj-jr7iz]

Don’t ask!! Demand!! It is US tax dollars!! Not theirs!! Entitled bunch of lying narcissists!!!

[@vaclavkubicek2970]

I am very proud that these young people do not accept lies and injustice 🇵🇸❤️

[@MaliBrizi]

❤ RESPECT TO ALL HONEST STUDENTS AND PROF ❤YOU ARE THE HONOR AND PRIDE FOR USA ALL HUMANITY

[@paddyholly2184]

Exactly like the Protesters of the war in Vietnam.

[@birjisammar1837]

We support young students of columbia university and other universities in their struggle to free Palestine and protect human rights.

[@cc8751]

Yet you will all still vote for Biden. Einstein's definition of insanity.

[@PauloAdriano-zo2ng]

​@@cc8751 I guess they're too afraid of Jill Stein. 😅

[@user-mu3yp6ru6b]

Brasil here We do too 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇪🇭🇪🇭

[@user-mu3yp6ru6b]

FORÇA UNIVERSITÁRIOS 👍🇪🇭

[@WillN2Go1]

The whole world's watching! The whole world's watching! (It's what they were chanting at Columbia 56 years ago.)

[@HayatRahman217]

Leave the student protesters alone

[@zorkwork3841]

When students take over building,break windows and yessometimes block and harrass students of every faith..then they have gone too far..This is not inspiring...Though I would lime Netenyahu removed...these students are wrong..If they weredrafted anf went to GAZA to fight I think they would have a harsh reality .I believe in PEACEFUL PROTESTS..AMY -YOU ARE NOT BEING TOTALLY HONEST.

[@ryblack5032]

@@zorkwork3841 EXACTLY 💯

[@kina8786]

⁠@@zorkwork3841the exact same response was taken at University of Texas at Austin, Emory, and USC, and they didn’t break windows, or break into buildings.

[@tlk0216]

They are not peaceful

[@benjaminhenderson5025]

​@tlk0216 yes, they are.

[@HayatRahman217]

God bless all the peaceful protesters 🙏🏻free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@Will_Moffett]

Maybe they should be less peaceful. But God bless them nonetheless.

[@rudbeckia885]

Peaceful ?

[@lapinchechismosa]

@@rudbeckia885the🇮🇱ones were the problem

[@forcingclimateinfo7014]

Peaceful protest has never worked and never will...Come on!!

[@kjbrack28]

They Peacefully broke windows, They Peacefully took over a building, They Peacefully destroyed furniture and vandalized the inside of the building.

[@benjamingiddings9254]

We love you, Amy Goodman!

[@eddieagostini450]

I love her too. She needs to do the news naked.

[@user-ub5zu5yh9e]

Bless all you Wonderful Brave Students..FREE PALESTINE 🇯🇴Blessed are The Peace Makers .🙏

[@user-mu3yp6ru6b]

TOTALLY agree 👍🇪🇭

[@boubou2119]

I agree, god bless all of them

[@UmiYogi0205]

This is crazy! How could we allow the police to do this to our youth when they are doing something so noble. 😮

[@faa9261]

They do it to black people all the time

[@mar-hs4ql]

Top important,, We must stop the criminals who are controlling the world by all means, keep them from power, and hold them accountable

[@user-ze7ds1lu1c]

Yessss sssssss

[@blackthai5023]

It made a big difference when Unions and workers joined with the student protesters in France 1968

[@ChristinaGerlach]

These brave students give us hope after so much despair.

[@craigb8228]

Too bad they can't stay peaceful.

[@Greenriver592]

​@@craigb8228They are peaceful, the police are not.

[@Magic-mushrooms113]

I thank them!

[@miasparks167]

@@craigb8228 Why should they stay peaceful if violence is being used against them. When their money is being used to fund violence.

[@hamid30nbl]

they protest peacefully and that's thier constitutional right

[@OMorningStar]

Their assembly is allegedly unlawful, therefore potentially not a protected constitutional right.

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

Is that why professors were arrested at their place of work? Brainlet

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Free Palestine....Please don't give up. ❤🇪🇭

[@contehchue379]

This is the champions of democracy for you

[@birjisammar1837]

A request to police: Please dont use your physical power against unarmed students. Be nice to them

[@meh.7539]

oh... bless your heart.

[@jonrosell6971]

You're delusional. Cops are Pigs.

[@BunnyBoyMcGill]

The police are being meanie-bo-beanies. 🥺

[@NorthernSoulIsMyWorld]

Pro Israel protestors, WEARING MASKS, turn up & attack FREE Palestine protestors; the police DO NOTHING to stop them--SURPRISE, SURPRISE! NO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN SIGHT!!!

[@donnakelley1202]

These kids are doing what we all should be doing. Standing up for our Constitutional rights.

[@piku5637]

If it wasn’t for unions, we’d still be working 80hrs a week, kids would still be mining. NormⒶlize worker co-ops and unions. Bring democracy🗳️💙to the workplace☭.🌸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[@aarondigby5054]

Ten year Olds working in coal mines, losing limbs in machinery accidents, keep labor unions alive

[@user-ze7ds1lu1c]

Yes ssssss. We need more Unions to protect work stability to protect the working class 🙏🙏🙏

[@Magic-mushrooms113]

Now you’ll be accused of being a socialist, the American boogie man. We just want to be human beings not slaves to capitalism.

[@StopWars420]

Freedom of speech and freedom to protest? Do they not exist anymore?

[@mouhamed.ballahmer]

❤ These honorable students are the pride of the world and defend truth, justice and humanity ❤

[@patrickbureau1402]

Wow - Couzinz ! The Kids aint all tik tok zombies ! POWER TO THE PEOPLE

[@birjisammar1837]

I am surprised why the court rejected Nicaragua's request against German supply of arms to Israel..

[@artinvartanian4631]

Me too. WTF? That makes the court also complicit in genocide.

[@pivanov3321]

Oh, land of the free, as long it does not contradict Izrael, it can exercise your freedom

[@darrellernst5493]

It not the people vs war IT'S THE STATE VS THE PEOPLE.

[@gloriasponner654]

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ✨️ 💙 FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ✨️

[@georgemetesky5519]

Free for whom? LGBT and minorities? Peace activists? Equal rights for women? Tell us who would be free in "Free Palestine".

[@miasparks167]

@@georgemetesky5519 Their domestic issues are not our problem. It sucks they still have a ways to go but that doesnt negate that the people deserve to have their human rights

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

0:29 AIPAC must be spending a Fortune.

[@jmc4935]

They have and will continue to do so. They've been targeting democratic candidates that question them. We have become an Israeli vassal state and they rule over the US. Look up how much power these Israeli Super PACs wield and you'll find how they've taken over our political system. We, the tax payers, now foot Israel's bills and we just need to shut up and smile. This isn't an alliance but an abusive relationship.

[@scrappyjack1]

​@@ia388 Soros inc is funding the Protests.

[@ReeseRozum-sm1zs]

It makes me feel there is hope for young people, I'm proud of them. Defund, and divest from Israel

[@paxwallace8324]

DBS DBS DBS!

[@gerrybannon7394]

In our millions and our billions we are all Palestinian 🇵🇸🇮🇪

[@user-eq8zx7ge8p]

In our trillions too...

[@ProCoExist]

The violence now being perpetuated all across campuses here in the U.S is unnecessary & frankly, heartbreaking to witness

[@sainjawoof3506]

DON'T STOP 🛑 SPEAKING FOR THOSE WITHOUT A VOICE!! KEEP GIVING THEM HOPE!! 🇵🇸❤️ Weird how the violent proIZ protests, aren't mentioned negatively, aren't attacked, or considered a threat.😂

[@brendasmart553]

Not weird, predictable and wrong.

[@user-eq8zx7ge8p]

Those without voice say 'aye' please.

[@user-sb6lh8hb3e]

Today we stand with the workers of the world on May 1st. Remember what happened in Chicago between may 1 - 4 of 1886.

[@thomasholt63]

The Haymarket riots

[@mspleasant8184]

Wow, those Israeli counter protesters are armed and extremely violent!!!!

[@deutziana4370]

ikr. Yet the government officials ignore their behavior while making up scurrilous lies about the pro-Palestinian protestors.

[@elliotjordan2326]

How did Americans become willing lap dogs for Israel.

[@freedom4639]

But no police.

[@artinvartanian4631]

Why weren't they arrested?

[@zeevanatashazazhinne3136]

SOLIDARITY for the Students who are (let's call it correctly) ANTI-GENOCIDE. Let's all remember how USA PD's have been training in Israel for decades and the concurrent increase in police violence and lack of real community connection is really showing.

[@craigb8228]

What is the goal?

[@helenclark7876]

Exactly you nailed it.

[@user-gl5yk5ys5b]

@@craigb8228 The goal is to oppress Americans by preventing them from trespassing and destroying property! Oh the fascism of it all! If this was a communist worker's paradise, trespassing and vandalism would be legal! Save us from this whiite supremacist oppression, Saint Jussie!

[@ClaireLavoie-qk2xe]

Love to Democracy Now, hoping USA converts to Democracy and Freedom of Speech!

[@nilaja-itsmylife]

The day the police sit this out. Will be the day✨

[@thomascruz6756]

The NYPD using their SS like training they learned so well from their brothers of the IOF!

[@BiggerThanClevelan]

THANK GOD !!!!!

[@evelync177]

I was at the Columbia University campus on the night of April 30. I went in honor of my beloved departed sister Raquel who was an early childhood teacher for over 35 years, and who was emphatically against the murder of Palestinian children. I went in solidarity of the Columbia students, was shocked and horrified to witness the massive presence of NYPD police. I knew what tragedy would follow... The courageous, sacrificial fight for truth and justice in Gaza by the students at the risk of their own academic careers is nothing short of amazing. Now it is America's turn to raise our collective voices and continue the protest against the criminal tyranny that has sieged democracy!

[@goldenwarrior5664]

Funny nothing from Hollywood elite.

[@priyanka5316]

They'll make a movie soon, in which all the Israelis are poor, helpless victims and the protestors are all "antisemitic" conspirators.

[@paxwallace8324]

Only Susan Sarandon she supports the the protests

[@Afroman29]

@@paxwallace8324 I doubt many support israel

[@Afroman29]

Zionists hate free speech

[@paxwallace8324]

@@Afroman29 that's not true. Many support that Genocidal lunatic state

[@Judess89]

Hey Democracy Now!💙🤍❤🦅🗽💯

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

Students have a right to peacefully protest- No Kent State! No Genocide!

[@user-ew5vc1qx7f]

😅wow

[@sarantsatsralbuyan]

History repeats!

[@johnbekoe2973]

This country is rotten to it's root

[@jmc4935]

Look up Israeli Super PACs and how much money has infiltrated our system. We have become a vassal state to Israel.

[@lm4836]

Well, look at American history...

[@vineshnaidoo9402]

Land built on innocent blood can never be happy long term

[@cljerjr31]

Police should be fighting crimes, the universities should be paying for these services via the private sector.

[@emil.jansson]

Happy Labour Day 🌹

[@dhdez03]

Those students are so brave and courageous, changes always begin with them. I hope they know we are supporting them from other parts of the world. Don't change your heart and ideals, that's what the system wants to do with these disproportionate attacks. Don't let them make you cynical or indifferent, because then you start to lose your soul, nothing is more valuable than that.

[@ryblack5032]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lawrencemullin2643]

The invading police are an embarrassment

[@stargazer7184]

The image of police loading a line of protesters into a city bus-turned-paddy wagon that says "clean energy bus" is weirdly dystopian.

[@elizabethflynr7561]

Sounds like most of the kids know right from wrong and are willing to speak out. Too bad, the people who are angry about their actions don’t.

[@dariushshikhaboolhassan783]

So much for freedom of assembly, expression and speech, Free Palestine.

[@joshgold6165]

Should the students not be protesting nationwide? I'm surprised there aren't protests at European universities of this scale if any. Were the 1968 Vietnam protests justified? Universities and its students should and have always been the heart, soul, and righteous voice of this country, and suppressing them is futile.

[@diffened]

I agree except not so sure about the "suppressing is futile" part.

[@joshgold6165]

@diffened in other words there will always be universities, and there will always be students to protest, so imprisonment for a few hours will not stop them.

[@bazs2855]

There have been a couple of university protests in other European countries. But not at the scale of the USA.

[@nradics]

Shame on America!

[@lucienvandegaart3611]

Peace for all please

[@kiriakosstoupakis338]

This is democracy???

[@SajidKhan-jg8bk]

Fascist New York Police 😡😡😡

[@Stop-and-listen]

There is a reason why NYPD is trained by the IDF.

[@user-pn6iz8yc1l]

These students are human angels, valiant young people asking for peace and respect for human life

[@marmenita1962]

Respect to all honesty Students/Prof ❤

[@kina8786]

Thank you Brown University for being decent!

[@rickjones8005]

Thank you Amy and the Democracy Now team. This gaslighting that protesting genocide is antisemitic completely dilutes the concept. Antisemitism is prevalent but crying wolf to cover for war crimes isn't helping. ✌️☮️

[@user-uo6rw4jq6z]

They are so brave and their humanity is second to none , God bless them

[@blackthai5023]

Legal procedure is used as the punishment drawn out and unbelievably expensive

[@timtrewyn453]

I keep saying this should be the "War and Protest Report". There is little peace.

[@ladyaryn1111]

Thank you,Amy.

[@doganozkan2231]

Thank you

[@alicecherop9560]

Love this station

[@stevengreenwade4802]

Things will never be the same it’s going to be get back, too many lives have been taken!

[@nilaja-itsmylife]

Legalize it 🌱

[@hoosierbaddy3052]

Stop taxing it at 30%!

[@nilaja-itsmylife]

@@hoosierbaddy3052 that part 😩

[@donvongprachanh1484]

I love watching your show. Thank you for keeping everything real God bless.

[@rama_lama_ding_dong]

BIG shout to Brown, livestream the debate(s)

[@user-cj8yl8dw8e]

Education, a tool to civilization, peace and reconciliation 🤝 , the students from universities across America 🇺🇸 have all the rights to protest against Palestinians genocide why mute 🔇 all the truth! The protest has to be globe 🌎

[@craigb8228]

R U Russian?

[@Kim-J312]

College campuses look like 1930s "brown shirts " it started like this ,boycotting, intimidation

[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

Are the police breaking up protests because of violence or because they are pro Palestinian?

[@user-gl5yk5ys5b]

It's always sad when mobs of Lefty thuggs get arrested for trespassing and destruction of property. Oh, the fascismm of it all! Saint Jussie, save us from this whiite patriarchal oppression!

[@artinvartanian4631]

Because they're pro-Palestinian. Did you see anyone from the pro-Israel violent mob get arrested?

[@bethmoore7722]

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

[@toddhayes3506]

Keep Fighting for your Rights and Freedom!

[@cesarp577]

Things are getting interesting before elections.

[@donnamarie6736]

Thanks to all the people who are standing up for humanity💜

[@stevenotero2627]

The facade of Freedom is crumbling rapidly. 😎🎭✌️

[@denisecorzette1676]

Hello Amy ✌🏻

[@Sez.the.shortone.]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@rain1224]

“all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”

[@zainiabdullah621]

US university students are the BEST REVOLUTIONARIES IN THE WORLD ! 👍👍👍

[@user-ko4fj9cy4t]

Fellow American students, your voice will be heard in the November elections.

[@MendeMaria-ej8bf]

Thank you, Amy, for your firm and powerful voice. ❤❤❤

[@BrianErasmus-xg6dr]

This is the reason the writers of the Constitution enshrined the right of the population to bear arms; to remove a tyrannical government

[@lascreen3198]

Right wingers want to remove the Constitution and install a Trump dictatorship. Real patriots don’t overthrow republics and install aristocracy.

[@CowboyConan]

Great! I can finally smoke pot without feeling like I’m a heroine or cocaine addict! 😂

[@craigb8228]

Biden better keep his promises.

[@user-ew5vc1qx7f]

📝point

[@Mary-il6zz]

Solidarity with our brave students!

[@margueritekeenan8960]

THANKYOU AMY AND TEAM..... FOR SHINING YOUR LIGHT OF TRUTH ..... WE'RE SENDING YOU LOVE, HUGS, LIGHT, SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY FROM THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF LIVERPOOL....XX🇸🇩🕯️🇸🇩

[@roozbehani]

Very dare and strong and noble broadcsting. Thanks!

[@user-ew5vc1qx7f]

😇😇

[@monicaabreu8854]

Thank You Democracy Now and Amy Goodman ! I trust your reporting.

[@1972543]

With these generation gen z…the future of moral values and justice in America is bright .I salute all the university students across America.

[@user-fg2ct1yb6d]

Love and respect for protestors..The Heroes

[@saradapagediocletian9707]

Hopefully the counterprotesters will be charged.