The Palestine Solidarity Movement is Making History:
Thoughts from a 1968 Columbia University “Outside” Organizer
by Eric Mann
Today, on college campuses in the U.S., and around the world, there is a powerful student/faculty/staff/
The protests against the daily mass murder of Palestinian civilians, and freedom fighters, is challenging the entire ideological and institutional structure of U.S. imperialism. Like Israel, the system’s idealization of the “university” as a neutral site of intellectual discourse covers up the university as a defense contractor, police trainer, CIA and Defense Department strategist, agribusiness, and toxic polluter think tank, while it tries to recruit its students as the next generation of mass murderers—U.S. imperialism’s willing executioners.