Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

December 19, 2023

U.S. Silences Voices for Palestine at Rutgers, on Same Day Mohawks Enter the Picture


Wikileaks exposed U.S. State Dept. cables revealing illegal wiretaps of Mohawks, and that Mohawks were the most spied on, and feared, of all those targeted. Censored News
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/wikileaks-canadas-unauthorized-wiretaps.html

U.S. Begins 'Civil Rights' Investigation to Silence Voices for Palestine at Rutgers, on Same Day Mohawks Enter the Picture

Rutgers University Shuts Down Students for Justice in Palestine -- U.S. Has New Hit List

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 14, 2023

Rutgers University suspended Students for Justice in Palestine, after the Biden administration announced a "civil rights investigation."

The Biden administration now has a "list" of schools under civil rights investigations.

It comes as no surprise that Rutgers University shut down Students for Justice in Palestine. The U.S. government's ethnic discrimination investigation began the same day that a film was shown, and the Mohawk Warriors entered the picture.

Wikileaks exposed leaked cables revealing that Mohawks are the most spied on, and feared, by the U.S. State Department.

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Rutgers University's decision to silence Students for Justice in Palestine, comes after the powerful film, 'Spaces of Exception,' was shown on Dec. 11, hosted by Rutgers' Graduate Geographers Project.

It was the same day, Dec. 11, that the United States launched its "civil rights" investigation targeting Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers University. Filmmaker Matt Peterson, co-editor of the new Mohawk Warrior Society handbook was among the presenters.

The film links the struggles of Dine', Lakota, and Mohawk to Palestinians, and the filmmakers co-edited the new Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival.

Author: Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall •
Edited by Kahentinetha Rotiskarewake, Philippe Blouin, Matt Peterson,
and Malek Rasamny

The film series culminating with 'Spaces of Exception' began with interviews on Pine Ridge for the film, "We Love Being Lakotas." The film series evolved with filming on Black Mesa, revealing the Dine' struggle against Peabody Coal, and on the lands and waters of Akwesasne Mohawk, and then ultimately at Standing Rock in North Dakota, and along with the West Bank.

'The Native and the Refuge' film in series: Standing Rock resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline 


It was just last week that Rutgers University refused to shut down the panel, "Race, Liberation, and Palestine,' regardless of the threats, thousands of e-mails and pressure from a U.S. Congressman.

During the panel, Nick Estes, Lakota professor and cofounder of The Red Nation, compared the ongoing war crimes of the murder of children in Gaza, to the theft of Native children from their families, who were transported to distant boarding schools like Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where death was rampant.

Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers responded to the oppression and the attempt to silence them.

"On December 12, Students for Justice in Palestine learned we were suspended by Rutgers University when a reporter asked for comment on the leaked document of suspension," the group said in this statement.

"None of the allegations are substantiated by date, testimony or description of incidents. The allegations reflect 'complaints' by other Rutgers students, faculty or staff, which may be no more than a speech disagreement."

"This attempt to conflate protected speech with violence is dangerous."

"The administration’s letter contributes to the perception of Arab and Palestinian students on campus as terrorist threats, a racist and unacceptable caricature. These allegations lodged against our group, with no due process, are attempts to silence Palestinian voices."

"Let there be no misunderstanding: we see this suspension for what it truly is— a manifestation of the widespread censorship and suppression facing those who advocate for Palestinian rights and dignity on college campuses nationwide," students said.

Read the full statement

Previous article at Censored News

'Race, Liberation and Palestine' Rutgers refuses to shut down event after Congressman's demands

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey -- The threats, pressure from a U.S. Congressman, and 12,000 e-mails, didn't shut down the event, "Race, Liberation and Palestine," at Rutgers University.

Nick Estes, Lakota, Lower Brule in South Dakota, said the U.S. had more than 400 federal institutions dedicated to removing Native children from their families, all across the United States, and in Alaska and the Pacific.

Look at the headstones at Carlisle Barracks, where there are more than 200 headstones, Estes said.

"Those are Native children who died at that school. Half of the class of 1879 died at this school."

"What kind of school kills half of its class," Estes said of the military installation turned into a boarding school in Pennsylvania.

"We have our own concept of what genocide is. It is about severing relations."

"Why else would you kill children, except to take away and steal the future."



The New McCarthyism: United States Government Targets Students Standing in Solidarity with Palestine



List of Schools under Civil Rights Investigation 

Spaces of Exception film: Standing Rock, Oceti Sacowin water protectors camp, 2016


'Spaces of Exception' film reveals atrocities and genocide of Native people and Palestinians

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 17, 2023

MONTREAL -- The film Spaces of Exception revealing the atrocities and genocide of Native people -- Lakota, Navajo, and Mohawk -- and of Palestinians -- was shown in Montreal at McGill University. It is here at McGill that Mohawk Mothers have an ongoing court battle to search for graves of Native children at the hospital where the CIA conducted MK-Ultra torture experiments.


WIKILEAKS CABLES: MOHAWKS

Border Guards Feared Mohawks, by Censored News, May 23, 2011

The US Embassies in Montreal and Quebec monitored Mohawks and Indigenous activists. In a series of cables released by Wikileaks in May, the US Ambassadors in Canada make it clear that no one wants to fight the Mohawks.

In fact, the US Embassy in Ottawa points out that the Canadian Border Guards feared the Mohawks.

In a cable dated July 30, 2009, from Ottawa, Terry Breese, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy, wrote about the Canadian Border Services Agency.

“The CBSA customs post on Cornwall Island (Kawehnoke) located on the Mohawk reserve territory of Akwesasne on the Canada-U.S. border closed on May 31. Canadian border guards had left the post citing fears of a violent confrontation with Mohawk residents, who opposed a CBSA directive requiring border guards to carry firearms at the Canadian port-of-entry, effective June 1.”

The Canadian Border Guards Union said Mohawks were intimidating them.


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