Campus Movement

GW University Students Storm Campus With Second Encampment

May 11, 2024 John Zangas, DC Media Group. Resist! Campus Movement, Gaza, George Washington University, Police, Student Activism

Washington DC—George Washington University Students stormed back by the hundreds onto the campus streets on Thursday afternoon. They told of their experiences during a police raid the day before, and then set up a second temporary encampment of tents near the University President Ellen Granberg’s F Street Home. The student-led action came 36 hours after 32 were arrested during a predawn Wednesday morning raid on the U-Yard. The Press coverage was quarantined during the police take down of their U-Yard encampment so there is limited video of the raid. However, students described a disturbing sequence of events during the raid.

Over 130 Arrested At Gaza Solidarity Demonstration

May 11, 2024 Daniel Frank, Massachusetts Daily Collegian. Resist! Arrests, Campus Movement, Gaza, Massachusetts, Police, Student Activism

At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, protesters set up an encampment on the Student Union South Lawn. Protesters were advocating for the University of Massachusetts to divest from war-profiteering companies involved in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and to drop the charges of the students arrested at the Whitmore demonstration in October. As the day progressed, dozens of police officers, many in riot gear, arrived on the scene and arrested over 130 undergraduates, graduate students, professors and community members. The protest was led by the UMass chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Student Journalists Are Needed Now More Than Ever

May 10, 2024 Amber X. Chen, Scheer Post. Strategize! Campus Movement, Gaza, Journalism, Propaganda, Repression, Student Activism

On May 3, we celebrated World Press Freedom Day, an international holiday dedicated to the importance of journalism and a free press. And, as of May 3, more than 140 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7—an average of five per week. In fact, in Gaza, more journalists have been killed in the first three months of the war than in all of World War II and the Vietnam War combined. On May 5, the Israeli government raided and shut down Al Jazeera’s offices in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, in the United States—where the freedom of the press is enshrined in our Constitution’s First Amendment—law enforcement and university administrations have routinely disregarded the rights of student journalists who have been working tirelessly to cover the ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests.

University Of California Protests Test The Limits Of Zionist Fiction

May 10, 2024 UC Alumni 4 Palestine, Mondoweiss. Educate! Campus Movement, Gaza, Student Activism, UCLA, Violence, Zionists

On April 30, a mob of Zionist vigilantes descended onto UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment, besieging it and waging horrific violence against students for hours throughout the night. On May 1, UCLA called in the LAPD to clear the encampment by force, unleashing yet another brutal attack on students before the blood from the previous night had a chance to dry. On May 2, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block hosted a town hall for UCLA alumni during which he glossed over the horrific events that took place on campus under his watch. During his webinar, to an audience of 1000 alums unable to comment, Chancellor Block described the violence of the first night as a scuffle with some “pushing and shoving.”

History Of US Activism For Palestine

May 10, 2024 As'Ad AbuKhalil, Consortium News. Educate! Black Panthers, Campus Movement, International Solidarity, Palestine, Student Activism

There is a long history of muted protests for Palestine on college campuses. Imagine, Palestine never drew the attention of the American left in the 1960s and 1970s. Few Americans knew the word Palestinian before the assassination by Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan. Most leaders of the American left (including Michael Harrington and Jerry Rubin) were staunch Zionists and thought of Israel as a progressive project in the midst of reactionary Arab countries (not that progressive Westerners were free of the racism that afflicted conservative Westerners). The AFL-CIO and all affiliates of the Democratic Party were prominent elements of the Israel Lobby.

Antifascism After Gaza

May 10, 2024 Alberto Toscano, In These Times. Strategize! Campus Movement, Democrats, Fascism, Gaza, Republicans, Student Activism

Over the past few years, discussions of fascism in the United States have, unsurprisingly, followed an electoral cadence, focused more on the presidency of Donald Trump — past and possibly future — than on the formidable far-right mobilization taking place through private foundations and state legislatures. In many ways, that’s justified, considering fascism has historically required, for its successful seizure of power, an electoral and constitutional process, in tandem with militias and vigilantism. But today’s so-called “fascism debate” — an academic and intellectual dispute over whether it can, or already did, happen here—is taking place against a different backdrop than four or eight years ago: that of a growing movement, led by university students, to stop a genocide funded and sustained by the U.S. government.

DC Police Raid George Washington University Student Gaza Campus

May 9, 2024 John Zangas, DCMediaGroup. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, Student Activism, Washington DC

Washington, DC - The student led Gaza solidarity protest at George Washington University Yard was raided in the predawn hours of Wednesday, May 8. Police arrested 31 and charged them with unlawful entry while four were additionally charged with assault of a police officer. All those arrested were released by the early afternoon of the same day. Jail supporters waited for each student’s release and provided emotional support, food, drink, and comfort to them once they were released. Nearly all those arrested were students and none of those arrested were reported as being “outside agitators” as the University Administration claimed had taken part in the camp.

University Of Michigan Protestors Keep Focus On Genocide In Gaza

May 9, 2024 Ryan McCarty, Left Voice. Resist! Campus Movement, Gaza, Genocide, Student Activism, University Of Michigan

It’s hard to believe that the encampment at the University of Michigan where students are protesting the university’s financial complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza is only two weeks old. Since establishing the encampment, the broad coalition, led mostly by graduate student organizers but supported by undergrads, faculty and staff, and community members, has grown tremendously. Over the last two weeks they have increased their actions, demanding the University divest from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine and war on Gaza. Over the last two weeks, camp activity has prioritized education and building community. Well over 100 permanent residents of the encampment have staged protests, teach-ins, and public engagement campaigns.

European Campuses Erupt In Protest Over Gaza Genocide

May 9, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Campus Movement, European Union (EU), Gaza, Genocide, Student Activism

More European college campuses have erupted in protest over Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, as the massive pro-Palestine movement at US universities continues to inspire students worldwide. According to a police statement, 169 people were detained on Monday evening and early Tuesday at the University of Amsterdam. Clashes with police and arrests have taken place as campuses in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Austria broke out this week. Hundreds of protesters resumed a demonstration at the University of Amsterdam on the evening of 7 May, a day after Dutch riot police stormed the protest site and violently cleared out their encampment.

The Nation’s Conscience

May 9, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Campus Movement, Censorship, Gaza, Genocide, Media, Social Movements

New York City - I am sitting on a fire escape across the street from Columbia University with three organizers of the Columbia University Gaza protest. It is night. New York City Police, stationed inside and outside the gates of the campus, have placed the campus on lockdown. There are barricades blocking streets. No one, unless they live in a residence hall on campus, is allowed to enter. The siege means that students cannot go to class. Students cannot go to the library. Students cannot enter the labs. Students cannot visit the university health services. Students cannot get to studios to practice. Students cannot attend lectures. Students cannot walk across the campus lawns.

A Parent’s Revolt

May 8, 2024 Annette Ricchiazzi, Scheer Post. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism, University of Southern California (USC)

A few years after graduating from USC, I proudly worked on campus in the office of university advancement, external relations and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. In the first of those jobs, I helped plan large university events such as Homecoming and the main commencement ceremony, among others. For many years, on commencement morning, I was assigned to the president’s office managing the robing of the platform party, which included famous speakers, honorary doctorate recipients and trustees. I planned the beautiful honorary doctorate dinner in Hoose Library, the most lavish and expensive dinner we hosted all year.

How Israeli University Presidents Are Proving The Case For Boycott

May 8, 2024 Mayssoun Sukarieh, Mondoweiss. Educate! BDS Movement, boycott, Campus Movement, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

On April 26, 2024, the presidents of Israel’s nine research universities — Ben-Gurion, Weizmann Insitute of Science, Hebrew University, the Open University, Ariel, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology — issued a collective statement in response to the Palestinian solidarity student encampments that were spreading across university campuses throughout the United States and beyond. The statement was a remarkable condemnation of student protestors in the U.S. as engaging in “severe violence, antisemitism [and] anti-Israel sentiment,” characterizing these students as “incited and hateful groups,” who are allegedly “organized and supported” by “terrorist organizations.”

The People’s Art Institute Denounces Police Attack On Student Encampment

May 8, 2024 The Peoples Art Institute, Left Voice. Resist! Campus Movement, Chicago, Gaza, Illinois, Police, Repression, Student Activism

The People’s Art Institute, constituted by SAIC students, announced our encampment situated in the AIC’s North Garden, on Saturday morning, May 4, at 11:30 A.M. The goals of the encampment were clear: to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to demand SAIC and AIC divest from entities profiting off of the occupation and genocide in Palestine. Students began setting up and by 12:05 P.M., CPD was onsite and an arrest warning was issued. CPD started kettling protestors on the sidewalk at the corner of Monroe and Michigan and removed them from the North side of the garden with extreme force.

It’s A Statement About Who The University Belongs To

May 8, 2024 Nashwa Bawab, In These Times. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, Protests, Repression

Students and faculty on campuses across the country are facing repression and violent attacks from police and racist mobs for establishing “Popular University for Gaza” encampments that have become some of the latest sites and frontlines in the U.S. and international resistance to the genocide in Gaza. More than 2,000 students and others have reportedly been arrested since the encampments began. The students who are organizing the encampments — often with faculty support and assistance from justice groups — are generally demanding the universities disclose financial involvement with the state of Israel and then divest — or break ties — with those financial and other relationships.

The Student Intifada Rises At Montréal Universities

May 8, 2024 Andrea Levy and André Frappier, Canadian Dimension. Resist! Campus Movement, Canada, Israel, Montreal, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

Students from all four Montréal universities came together over the last week to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people and pressure their institutions to cut ties with Israel. Following the lead of the camps protests in the United States, they set up an encampment on the grounds of McGill University on April 27, calling for a ceasefire and demanding that Montréal’s halls of higher learning disclose their investments in companies complicit with the genocide in Palestine and divest from those companies, in addition to cutting ties with Israeli academic institutions. In the specific case of McGill University, two student groups, McGill Hunger Strike for Palestine and Students for Justice in Palestine, created a dataset of McGill’s investments in companies with links to the State of Israel.

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