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colonialism: the dubious charge that to oppose “Israel” as it [§
actually exists—a European Jewish settler nation based on land [

theft, occupation, native population displacement, and anti
Palestinian genocide-warfare—is to be categorically
Semitic.”

thrives on this fabricated aura of vulnerability and the ruse of]
innocence” that is generated by this ploy of victim reversal.

underway is part of a larger campaign organized by the Trump-

Vance “MAGA” bloc, in lockstep with the far-Right Isracli ]

universities where strong movements against Israeli apartheid exist
and/or popular support for Palestinian liberation is growing. /[

awe” approach to coercing the entire social ecosystem of Higher [ >
Education back into the normative conduct and disciplinary [ ’ d’
st conformity. All funding from the federal ',I' L/
government “wil \lnp for any college, school or university thal v,’,'l‘
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permanently sent back o the country from which they came,” or if
be “permanently expelled or,

still mgrwhtlmmb\y organizes itself according to liberal-pa
and reformist terms of engagement. Far from some irrational

force that last Spring was momentarily thrown into crisis by the}
convergence of anticolonial insurgency on campuses across the|

country—an equation that was first upended in Palestine on|
October 7, 2023. That is, the material equation of force that
undcrpm colonialism and the larger imperialist world order in

d which the zionist entity of Israel is a lynchpin and forward base. '

[This spate of federal investigations is strategi

J within the geopolitical and military context of U.S.
counterinsurgency doctrine:

efforts designed to simultancously defeat and contain” emergent
and potential articulations of anti-zionist resistance. ']

‘government mobilize the oste
of “civil rights” (title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act) on the
fraudulent basis of “combatting antisemitism,” to do far much

more than simply penalize participants of the 2024 campus revolt

retroactively. What we are in fact experiencing is the
‘White-supremacist state proactively fortify an infrastructure that is
essential for the continued social reproduction, ideological
coherence, and hegemony of a singular apparatus of settler empire |3
formed between the United States of Amerika and Israeli nation-ff

states. )

apparent how (and why) the CUNY 8, the Ann Arbor 11, Leeqaa
Kordia, Mahmoud Khalil, and i (among others) are all targets of
this peculiar, historically-specific wave of ongoing repression. And.
yet, each of us are merely exemplary objects of criminalization.
Suspens and expulsions, two-decade-long prison sentences >
3{ Proposed, visas revoked, detained and possibly deported—we :.mtg

the latest political prisoners and defendents from the Palestine
liberation movement in the United States. Some of us can even be

lled prisoners of war. The attempt of the colonial apparatus to|

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against the potential for a revolutionary subversion of the U.S.]
Israeli war machine catalyzed by the convergence of society onto
campuses throughout the imperial-settler core. Toward the|

fulfillment of our generation’s historically necessary task: the|

abolition of the University of Empire, of
legal cases represent a different facet or sector of in this most

[The state uses the imprisonment of political leaders and
rank-and-file activists as a bludgeon against movement

12] The absurdity of it all is that, following the spring 2024 uprising on 1
college campuses, leadership of the University of California engaged in the
largest increase of ts police department budget in over a decade, and cach 8

encampments. U.C. Berkeley added drones and new weaponry, and some]
campuse m,...ma tanks, new surveillance tech, and other military-grade}

overtook over one hundred college

larger place within the revolutionary Palestinian resistancs

[October 7, 2023, see the following: Revolutionary Intercommunalism Research|
Group, “The Student Intfada and the Revolution to Come” Radar Journal [l

6] The zionist colonial

s the U.S. governmen hides its hand and acts as if it has no control over
racl’s war of extermination in Gaza and the West Bank. ltself a move toward

innocence,” this performative incapacity and concealment of decisive agency il
shaping Isracli military policy is no more than a fabrication—the posture play of
‘good cop, bad cop.” The United States government s the predominating funder|

of the zionist entity's nation-building and

factthat U.S. stter empire maintains bases scattered across every continent.
The United States of Amerika and lsracl-zionist entity are thus symbiotic and
mutually constituative, hence my conceptualization of both forming a singular
apparatus. The former can no longer maintain its dominance without the
whill the latier may not be capable of operating at all in the form of a seitler
colonial nation-state without the extensive financial support and relentless.
miliary-industrial backing of the former. This civilizational codependence will
become increasingly apparent (and desperate) over the next several years if the
revolutionary anticolonial insurgency of the Palestinian resistance and global [
olidarity movement continue 10 persist in the face of or

7] As Fredy Periman and Roger Gregoire describe in Worker Stuent Actio]
f Commitee. France, May '68 (Olympia: Detrius Books, 2020 [1969]): 0

sbolish the university
miversity is not a vaporous idea but a ¢

ncrete horizon and specifc:
setof objectives and revolutonary activiy that concrete people struggle toward|
together. That i, “an abolition of the university as a specialized institution

restricted 10 a special layer of society (students),” where, “the ex-university

R 0ccomes socialized.” now, “public, open to everyone.” (103) Afterall, what 1 8
‘campus without is relation to capital? Without the “student” and “worker
alienated from their sense of collective power? In absen
power and policing

of administrative,

? Is it ot just a grip of buildings with tremendous resouret
technology, and infrastructure availabie for the taking and repurposing, the
ent of meaning based on socially

n instead of work, profit, and presiig

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8] Dan Berge,“The &

redistribution of access, th reassignn

Incarceration, 1960's to 2000s” in Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of
b] Documents from the Movements to Free USS. Political Pisoners, edited by