Idris's success in this lawsuit will be a win for Palestine advocates everywhere. When they go after one of us, we must all stand together.
Please help Idris Robinson cover legal fees and support his family through this ordeal: www.givesendgo.com/GKRFR
Tl;dr:
No crime. Just an insightful talk on the resistance. And principled views.
Some coordinated online backlash by deranged wingnuts—and the university falls in line.
Let's be clear: this is a constitutional violation. We must set a precedent by making Texas U pay for this.
Read the full story in a new Guardian article by
@TimothyJPratt
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But first: please help with the algorithm by commenting (!), RT'ing, etc.
We must counter the repression with solidarity. Idris should not have to stand alone >> www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Idris Robinson screen-capture from his seminal How It Might Should Be Done public talk. Text: As for Hamas, Robinson told the Guardian: “I definitely do not condemn the violence used by the Palestinian resistance. Palestinians have not been accused of perpetrating genocide, while the Israelis have been found guilty of doing so by the UN, Amnesty International and others. So the issue of whether I support violence or not is a ridiculous and immature question at this point.” In any case, Robinson added, his main claim in both the talk and the question-and-answer session was that “the Palestinian people are not just passive victims. They have agency and there’s something to be learned from people who’ve been struggling for 75 years … about emancipatory political transformation.”
BREAKING: Texas State Fires Professor over Palestine Speech
Philosopher Idris Robinson is being fired for having principles.
He gave a talk on Palestinian resistance.
He would not condemn it.
Over a year later, TXST terminates his tenure-track contract. But he's fighting back.🧵
Support the non-cooperating defendants @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social
No one is talking about this.
[Sources listed on my YouTube, X, and Insta]
decreased dramatically since mid-January, and that's the model that the rest of the country needs to understand, if people are serious about learning the lessons offered by the Twin Cities. [6/6]
(including the murder of Alex Pretti on Jan 24), has generally preferred to retreat from abduction attempts rather than confront responders and neighbors and potentially get attacked, injured, get their vehicles damaged, or worse. That's why abductions have /5
to use less-lethal weaponry, while proletarians cussed ICE out, flashing their weapons and throwing projectiles from the rear.
Since then, ICE has treated the rapid responders confronting them at every corner as potentially armed, and, with some exceptions /4
Jan 14 was different because, after ICE shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in North Minneapolis, the hood responded the same way it responds to police shootings there. ICE was pinned to the crime scene, rapid responders created an image of legitimate protest forcing law enforcement /3
There's zero media making this analysis, but it's necessary in order to understand how ICE was defeated here: it's through the confluence and complicity (in the positive sense) of a network of many thousands of rapid responders with the militant proletariat of the Twin Cities. /2
No one is talking about the riots.
An analysis of deportation flights out of Minneapolis shows that ICE activity decreased not immediately after the murder of Renee Good (Jan 7), but after the riot of Jan 14, when neighbors showed up to brandish guns and throw fireworks and bricks at the feds.🧵1/6
I've seen no coverage of this.
Full post: adicallai.substack.com/p/a-city-in-...
