The Foundation did not neglect to celebrate the history of incitement against it. The year 2018 represents five decades since students occupied Columbia University halls, demanding the school council to escalate with the defense industry during the Vietnam War, and also that it stops building a gym – “Gym Crow” – which would have been separated by Harim residents. Colombia took revenge on the closure. With the help of officers from the New York Police Department, Colombia has placed a brutal siege on its students: more than seven hundred, more than a hundred injuries. During the clash, the university spoiled its students. This was DemonstratorsAnd not the students. Over the years, these students, as soon as he denied, became students again. Their actions, after proved “the righteous in history, are now flowing from the institution. On the anniversary of the demonstrations, some participants participated, now in the 1970s, in rounds of the Colombia campus. The library of books and rare manuscripts at the university held an exhibition that reminds the protests; produced a social media summary, in actual time, the facts of escalation, such as almost the digital stand.
How will Colombia, over the next fifty years, gradually accommodate students of 2024 in its brand? “The Camps”, a new, indisposition documentary, already appeals to future generations. The film represents accounting on the ground for a period of twelve days last spring, when the student activists, exhausted from the administration from the administration, prepared tents in Bater Lun, demanding that the university stop its investments in Israel and issue an invitation to end the “genocide in Gaza”. The camps not only spread in Colombia but in universities throughout the country, then around the world. The director of the documentary, Kei Pritsker and Michael T The confrontations between activists and officials who are not separated; Among the clashes between Jewish students who support dress and Zionist opponents. One of the optical motifs full of the film is the corresponding copies of the camps in Colombia and the refugee tents cities in Palestine. The film sees the courage of the citizens of its students – it is the segment of citizens that reject indifference – but it is not exceptional to the extent that the equal hint here. Really, this is the source of the film’s inner pain, captured in a narrative form. The protests ignited national politics, however the volume of violence means that no action could be sufficient.
It was distributed by Pathermelon Pictures (a new independent company promoting “Palestinian cinema and other voices facing repression”), “The Sampments” that opened in late March. Students at the University of California, Los Angeles, organized a presentation on the campus. One of the hosting organizations has lost justice students for Palestine, like many of its chapters throughout the country, its privileges inside the university; The organizers tried to avoid the police eye by constantly moving the sites to evade the blame from the school. On April 30, the university police were brought to students who gathered in the quarter to watch the film, violently dispersed them, and literally confiscated the screen.
“The camps” are outdated, and they know that. The suppression of students protesting a new life has found a new life under the Trump administration; Ice International students who participated in pro -events demonstrations were detained, without any consideration of the visa status. The release of the film was accelerated after the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a student student at Columbia College for International and Public Affairs. Khalil was elected as a negotiator for temple students, and he was behaved as a communication link between them, university, and the media. But he became known to the world through his monitoring footage Ice Arrest on a residential property in Colombia. His pregnant wife at the time, Nour Abdullah, in distress; Khalil forced a roasted and destroyed position on humanity; Officers who act with impunity.
Khalil, who was not supported by the university, has disappeared without the due legal procedures, disappeared in Gina, Louisiana, and the deportation is to put the risks to the viewers before the start of the movie. The nation fixed its outlook on the protests: The opening sequence of the film shows the convictions of the uprisings from both the conservative and liberal media. The condemnation runs a series: accusations of anti -Semitism; The accusations of external instigators; The accusations against the moral void of the empty radical elegance. That year, the American political apparatus rose to the pulpit to ventilate the activists: Tom Coton, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden, Eric Adams. The protests were supposed to provoke a response. Obsessive confusion signals that the disorder does its work. Workman and Pritsker owns the caramers of official speakers from the camp, including Khalil; Grant Miner, a Jewish graduate student and the organizer who was expelled from the university in the days before the release of the film; SUEDA Polat, a graduate student who says, at the beginning of the film, that it came to Colombia because the university provides one of the few human rights programs in the United States that Ballium argues that the Colombia gift is linked to companies that have benefited from productivity companies for other productivity, productivity for productivity, productivity in terms of productivity, productivity occurs for production, productivity for productivity. occupation army. “The promise to teach Ivy League is the city’s promise on a hill: the box. Balla talks about violence directly outside the wall.
“Camps” is a very highly traditional documentary. It escalates from her argument with a little glow and with silent aesthetic, all to dispel the hysteria surrounding its subject. The film is in a defensive position, and he felt itself to stand in the narration of the ghost of the media and responds strongly to every criticism. This is also New York City. One of the many things that directors wanted to emphasize is the atmosphere of peace in the camps. Local restaurants send food. Students sing. Various religions on Saturday participate in the grass. The film displays footage of the anti -opponents coming to the campus, and they will disappear. An incitement, an unclear face, mocks, “I hope it will usurp you.” In particular, Menner sends himself, his good -to -beanite pulses – and his disappointment with Zionism after leading him to a deeper connection with his faith and the issue of Palestinian liberation – to stimulate more moderate criticism. If there are internal conflicts between the demonstrators, then the “camps” do not show them; The conflict is affordable is the battle of David and the generations between students and university. Another point for confirmation is how packing develops. “The Sampments” is a practical documentary film, and it is easy to shed light on the gradual and deliberate strategy to first prepare on the grass, then to the occupation of Hamilton Hall-who re-named Hind, after Hind Rajab, a five-year-old girl who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces-has unusual measures with an extraordinary force by NYPD.
The film benefits from archive clips from Vietnam War protests in 1968 with Jamal Joseph, who participated in the first Hamilton Hall occupation. In the aftermath of these demonstrations, Colombia realized that NYPD’s statement on its students was a mistake. “Simply not bring the police to the campus,” said former university president Lee Bolinger in 2008.
It is fully informed from the perspective of the demonstrators, the “camps” are extended. “We are literally returning you to the university to be an ethical university,” says Khalil at some point in the movie. The screen is filled, in preparation for the conversation head, screen. He has a diplomatic balance and discourse. Khalil was born in a camp in Syria. Neither he nor his parents, the sons of Nakba in 1948, the continued expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, presented him in Palestine. Khalil is the bridge by which the film is making its arguments about the hypocrisy of liberal education, which feeds on the ideals of free investigation and freedom of expression and abandons its responsibility in liberating people. The university needs – in fact tolerance – a degree of internal opposition; The dissidents make the educational institution look, in that romantic, legitimate past. The film contains too much fragility. “The camps” are forced to be in order to save the reputation of the protests, and it is clear that this school and the idea of the school. But all this, as the demonstrators know, and as the film knows, risk the deviation of the issue on hand. Archive shots for Palestine, about Nakba, in addition to footage at the present time from Gaza, raises their impact on the film, so as not to become a background; We hear the voice of Hind Rajab, whose entire family was killed while trying to escape from Gaza. She is pleading with the emergency worker to save her because she finds herself surrounded by the IDF forces. The screen is black. There is no picture that can be terrified. Students are in an existential battle, also, from exploiting both their exploitation and receiving the hero of the novel. “I have not missed a single video clip for students who talk about Palestine, and to educate others about the Palestinian issue, with true political and historical knowledge,” says Bezan Oda, a journalist in her twenties from Gaza, who put her body at stake since the war began, emotionally.
“Camps” plays like Gadfly. A year later, Colombia is a symbol of surrender. Her leadership made concessions to the Trump administration threats, which led to the erosion of its reputation with a little to show it. Poilizer institutions massive, then more, gathered together to challenge incursions; Likewise, small schools in the red states, such as the Milsabs College, did in the state of Mississippi, and the Taldiga College, in Alabama, which the cuts represent real financial risks. Union representing Colombia professors sues the Trump administration; UNESO Chung, twenty -year -old, who targeted deportation because she participated in the protests, sue Trump himself. Chong granted a temporary restriction order Ice From her detention. On May 21, Colombia will hold its start. Three days ago, on May 18, some students will retain resistance to combat, and the people graduate, in St. John’s Divine Cathedral. They will honor Khalil, who completed his studies in December, who missed the birth of his first child, and who was scheduled to walk in May. ♦
