Palestine Solidarity Movement

And I'm not a legal scholar, so I can't give the sort of legal answers to this.

But certainly, Palestine Solidarity Movement has always understood that state institutions are hostile to them.

And they have been hostile to them for a long time.

Now, you know, things change whether you're talking about the federal government, provincial government, local municipal governments, you're talking about, you know, universities, high schools, businesses, you know, all of those are different aspects of the story, right? But certainly, universities in Canada, as we've seen reporting in the breach, for example, just this summer, worked together to suppress these student encampments, and they worked very closely with local authorities.

Damn right.

And there was another AstroTurf demo in Mexico City, this time trying to take advantage of the Palestine Solidarity Movement and their insistence and regular organizing of demos.

But this one was very suspicious under very dubious circumstances.

Basically, no one is taking credit for it.

Full of very questionable items, including what should be identified as anti-Semitic chants.

But is this reflective of the Palestine Solidarity Movement? No.

No.

And we're going to break that down and how some actors here in Mexico are trying to take advantage of what appears to be clearly yet another case of an astroturf, that is to say a fake act.

That's a really good question, Zoe.

What did we do? Because from my vantage point, what we did wrong in the eyes of these people who have subpoenaed us is we've covered the Palestine Solidarity Movement with staunch opposition to the genocide in Gaza.

We have showed people what ICE is actually doing in the streets of America, which is something that these people are very upset about.

We've reported on Washington's crimes around the world, from Cuba to the Congo to Iran to here in Lebanon, where I'm speaking to you from.

It's U.S. government with multiple other governments that are engaging in occupation, genocide, and violence, that they all cohere together.

So even just through the threat of Palestine, I mean, there's so many countries across the world who have pushed the counterterrorism infrastructure deeper by targeting anyone on the Palestine who is actually in the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

I think that laid bare a lot.

I also believe that because the government did not listen to the call of so many people around the genocide of Palestinians, I believe that that through line was one of the biggest reasons we got Trump into office.

So it was like, oh, actually I have to organize here to take care of my students, who I do care about.

But I also realize, and I think this is a lesson, this is a painful lesson that a lot of us in the Palestine Solidarity Movement have been learning, is that We don't have power.

We can shift the moral authority all we want.

We've won the moral question.

Everyone can see it.

So what the Palestine Solidarity Movement has done, what the students have done since October 7th, is they have just exposed the farce of democracy in the United States and the contradictions are coming out in ways we would have never seen before.

I don't see how this won't produce a greater clash if and when the Democrats take power.

Because the real theater for, as you keep hinting with your questions, the real theater for contestation on Palestine is within the Democratic Party.

College and universities maintain exchange programs, conduct academic research collaborations, or even, uh, financially intertwined with Israel.

The Palestine Solidarity Movement, by contrast, calls for universities to cut off Israel and participate in an academic boycott similar to that of apartheid South Africa.

Which, of course, of course we should be doing that.

Of course we shouldn't be sending money and other, uh, you know, resources to facilitate genocide.