Response to the brutal attacks on Workers Strike Back and Columbia University antiwar protestors

August 10, 2025

Workers Strike Back and my campaign for the U.S. Congress stand in solidarity with the dozens of Columbia University students who are facing brutal retaliation for their courageous anti-genocide activism.

The administration has levied sanctions on students that include expulsions, probation, degree revocations and suspensions ranging from one to three years.

This is absolutely disgusting.

On Monday this week, three Workers Strike Back activists were unjustly arrested while peacefully protesting at a community college in Renton, near Seattle, outside a town hall of genocidal Democratic Congressmember Adam Smith.

We need to continue building international working-class solidarity against this repression of the anti-genocide movement.

My campaign is calling for an end to the genocide, end to all U.S. military funding for Israel, and an end to the brutal occupation of Palestinian lands. I am running against Adam Smith, who has voted repeatedly to fund the genocide. Smith also voted to create ICE, and voted for the war on Iraq.