Mathew Foresta
@mathewforesta.bsky.social
Writer and journalist. Words in HuffPost, USA Today, The Guardian, LAist, The Daily Beast, etc. Please subscribe. https://bettergracesandliberations.substack.com/
Why did you call the attack on the encampment a "melee," rather than what it was, a lynch mob attack. Why are you repeating uncritical, wild accusations that a non-violent protest violently attacked Jews. I was there, that didn't happen. Do you have no ethics? newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
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UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk responds: "Let me be direct: the suggestion that UCLA has been passive in the face of antisemitism is simply wrong. Combating antisemitism is a moral imperative — one rooted, for me, in personal history that makes indifference unthinkable."
Correct. I was there. newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
newpol.org
This didn’t happen. In fact, it was a violent gang from outside UCLA that came in and attacked the protestors. And none of the attackers were held to account.
This did not happen. The opposite occurred. A Zionist lynch mob attacked pro-Palestine students, faculty, and community members at the UCLA encampment. I know, I was there. The encampment was overtly non-violent. newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
newpol.org
UCLA students allegedly carried out violent antisemitic attacks and exclusion zones while the university failed to stop them, according to a DOJ lawsuit.
This is 100 percent factual and I took pictures that prove it. The UCLA Encampment even had Seder. It was stridently ANTI-ZIONIST, but Jewish people were always present and welcome. newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
newpol.org
And we must emphasize this—there were Jewish demonstrators involved in practically all of these encampments, bravely putting themselves at risk to oppose genocide. Everything anyone said or did against the encampments, they were endangering Jewish kids who chose to go without the backing of Israel.
The fact that no one was held accountable makes it even worse. It shows the contempt this country and its legal apparatus have for Palestinian lives, protestors, and anyone who truly stands against empire and genocide. newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
newpol.org
Literally, the day after UCLA sent the police in to break up the encampment was when I decided I was leaving - not just the university, but the country. Obviously there were other factors, but I felt a profound sense of alienation. I can only imagine how crushing it must have been for the students.
I got hit in the head. I'm amazed no one died. newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
newpol.org
The attack on the UCLA Gaza encampment was one of the first times in my professional career where I took a look at a situation and thought, “someone might seriously die tonight” Some of the worst hours I’ve ever experienced and reported on
It was the only time I thought I might die at a protest. newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
newpol.org
Yep, I was there. A mob of Zionist fanatics literally tried to kill us and no one has ever been held properly accountable. newpol.org/issue_post/o...
On the Student Barricades - New Politics
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
newpol.org
I can’t say much on that UCLA thing but I remember there were people from a foreign military that went there just to beat up on kids exercising the duties they just learned were their inherent rights in civics class. There was a mother who sent her son there to do that. Staff was blackballed.
I hate what Rolling Stone has become. You can draw a straight line between their most talented writers being laid off over the last few months, and allowing an Israeli agent to whitewash their genocide of Palestinians. This isn't journalism or an Op-ed piece. It's shameless war propaganda.
Rolling Stone is publishing pro-war advertorials by an Israeli government agent now:
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
Re-upping just because all the Discourse I could possibly engage in is less useful than this confidential, encrypted legal and peer support line for military members who believe their orders are illegal or immoral and want to know the best way to resist them.
Unsurprisingly, organizations for veterans against war do have advice and resources for active military members, and it tends to be more complicated than "just quit." aboutfaceveterans.org/military-res...
Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times
Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is ‘Part Of God’s Divine Plan’
One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.
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#OtD 3 Mar 1959 the Hola massacre took place in Kenya when the commander of a British concentration camp for Kenyan civilians had its 88 detainees severely beaten with clubs. 11 died and the 77 others sustained serious permanent injuries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1021...
Also, you are not one to talk. You are sexually abusive yourself. You are still being an asshole online after it previously got you in trouble. You have threatened to rape and murder marginalized people. Now you're making jokes about rape in Okinawa to win online arguments. You're garbage.
I never said any of that, quote where I say that, but you did threaten to rape and murder Trans people and BIPOC. A crime you admitted to. You are an abuser and pathological liar.
It was here and just recently, online, where you do a lot of your sexual overtone crimes. Why do you think it's appropriate to threaten people with rape Benjanun Sriduangkaew?
Why are you defending a known sexually abusive internet troll?
You are an abuser who literally threatened to have young women, Trans people, and BIPOC raped and murdered.
You threatened to have people raped and murdered you abuser. The fact you have a career shows how easy it is for abusers to make space for themselves online and in publishing. dailydot.com/parsec/benja...
Sci-fi writer revealed to be a notorious Internet troll
The publishing community is divided over how to deal with writer Benjanun Sriduangkaew, better known as the troll Winterfox.
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You mean the extremly well documented abusive behavior from your mutual and online friend you make rape jokes with. That is no lie, they are an abuser. Why are you defending abusers. That is so fucked up especially when they admitted guilt.
I can't stand an abuser like yourself pretending you care about victims.
For a guy who believes so strongly in monarchy he sure looks like a court jester not a prince.
this is their hero btw
The U.S. state admits it deliberately uses economically coercive methods to draw people into military service. This isn't a debate. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Key GOP rep fears student debt relief will undercut military recruiting
The head of the House Republican Policy Committee connected student loan forgiveness to military enlistments. That's deeply problematic.
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Again, 50K is not middle class. Also, the poverty draft via debt trapping is something the U.S. state admits openly, so I have no idea why people are pulling up centrist think tank studies to try and disprove it. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... bsky.app/profile/spac...
Key GOP rep fears student debt relief will undercut military recruiting
The head of the House Republican Policy Committee connected student loan forgiveness to military enlistments. That's deeply problematic.
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This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
That Hegseth is a psychotic zealot? He has Deus Vult tatted on his body bro. bsky.app/profile/post...