Palestine Solidarity

Gaza Encampments Have Spread Across The United Kingdom

May 22, 2024 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Resist! Campus Movement, Gaza, Israel, oxford, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism, United Kingdom (UK)

I’m an American PhD student here at Oxford and it’s been very interesting talking to U.S. universities, coordinating with U.S. universities, and thinking about how to make our actions in the UK as effective as possible. We put our encampment up here at Oxford at the same time as Cambridge, on May 6th. The momentum is tremendous and the coalition that we built at this university is absolutely unprecedented. We’re also facing repression, but the difference between here and the U.S. is that that U.S. repression is far more visible, the violence is far more visible. Here, especially at places like Oxford which are such unchanging institutions for centuries, the way that they are trying to to battle us is much different. So far that’s largely meant doing strategic gymnastics to avoid us.

Drexel Students Set Up Palestine Encampment, Call For Divestment

May 22, 2024 Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Campus Movement, Drexel University, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Philadelphia, Police, Repression, Student Activism

Philadelphia, PA — Students at Drexel University established an encampment in support of divesting from Israel on May 18, following a rainy Nakba Day commemoration march from Center City that started around 4 p.m. Philadelphia and Drexel police officers quickly surrounded the encampment with a ring of metal barricades and largely barred additional people from entering; this was apparently at the orders of Drexel’s campus police chief. There was a brief struggle over the metal barricade components, and at one point an officer brandished a Taser at the crowd but was pulled back by another, shortly after our reporters got onsite. As of late Monday the encampment was still in place.

The Threat Of Democracy On Campus At The University Of Massachusetts

May 22, 2024 Kevin Young, Portside. Resist! Campus Movement, Democracy, Israel, Massachusetts, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism

Before arriving at UMass Amherst last fall, Chancellor Javier Reyes was already notorious for his cavalier approach to critics. But few foresaw what he did on May 7. Earlier that day, organizers from a coalition of campus solidarity groups had erected tents on a small section of the lawn by W.E.B. Du Bois Library. Like virtually all the recent encampments in this country, there was no hint of violence from the campers. It was the latest tactic in a seven-month campaign to end UMass’s complicity with the US-Israeli war on Gaza. The organizers had four demands: that UMass disclose its financial ties to weapons makers and corporations with links to Israel, that it divest from those corporations, that it end study abroad programs in Israel, and that it drop all charges and sanctions against the students arrested in a peaceful building occupation last October.

University Of California Student Workers Begin Historic Political Strike

May 22, 2024 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. Resist! California, Campus Movement, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Strikes, Student Activism, University of California

On May 20, University of California (UC) student and postdoc workers at the Santa Cruz campus began a historic strike against the repression of the student movement. UAW 4811, which represents over 48,000 workers, voted last week to authorize a strike in response to intense repression unleashed against students and faculty protesting for Palestine. Administrators at several University of California campuses invited in the police, who violently arrested and injured students, faculty, and staff. Many workers and students across the UC system also face disciplinary action from their universities, including suspension.

The Billionaires And Establishment Officials Unleashing Violence

May 22, 2024 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Eric Adams, Israel, New York City (NYC), Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism, UCLA, Zionism

It has been weeks since the brutal state repression and right-wing violence unleashed against some of the most prominent Gaza Solidarity Encampments, including the encampments at the University of California – Los Angeles and Columbia University. Since then, independent reporting has uncovered disturbing links between extreme-right counterprotesters and billionaire donors, as well as collusion between city officials and police conducting violent repression. At UCLA, Zionist counterprotesters conducted several rounds of attacks against the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Student organizers reported counterprotesters releasing bags of mice injected with an unknown substance, as well as cockroaches.

Strengthening Our Movement In Times Of Crisis

May 20, 2024 Palestinian Youth Movement, People's Dispatch. Organize! Conference, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

Two hundred days into the Zionist war of aggression on Gaza, the Palestinian struggle is in the midst of a critical conjuncture. For months, organizations in North America have been strengthening and leading a mass movement to advance the cause of Palestinian national liberation from within the imperial core. The popular and revolutionary character of the movement has been borne out by the millions marching in the streets, direct actions across all major cities, new and newly-energized sector-based organizing and campaigns, victories across ideological and media struggle, and most recently, student encampments demanding divestment in the universities and colleges.

Morehouse Students Show Solidarity With Gaza During Biden Speech

May 20, 2024 Julia Conley, Scheer Post. Resist! Atlanta, Campus Movement, Gaza, Genocide, Georgia, Joe Biden, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

Advisers for U.S. President Biden reportedly saw Morehouse College, a historically Black men’s college in Atlanta where he gave the commencement address Sunday, as a school where the president was unlikely to face protests over his continued support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has been the subject of mass demonstrations led by students at universities across the country over the past month. But students and faculty made clear at the ceremony that many of them, like others in higher education, are intent on sending Biden a strong message of disapproval over his Israel policy. A number of faculty members and students wore keffiyehs, the traditional scarves worn in parts of the Middle East including Palestine, and by some supporters of Palestinian rights to show solidarity with civilians in Gaza.

South Africa FM: ‘We Will Not Rest Until Palestine’s Freedom Is Realized’

May 17, 2024 Naledi Pandor, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, South Africa

South Africa is of the view that the international community has an obligation to find a comprehensive and just resolution to the Palestinian issue. So far, the traditional approach to conflict resolution has failed to achieve peace in the Israel–Palestine conflict. It is possible that a different approach, one that uses a human rights perspective on conflict resolution, could produce what the old approach could not. A human rights approach asserts that the principles and practices enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including equality and non-discrimination, participation, inclusion, and accountability, and the importance of the rule of law should guide all the stages of the peace process.

Unions Support Student Protestors Against Administrators And Police

May 15, 2024 Caitlyn Clark, Labor Notes. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, Solidarity, Unions

As campus protests—and violent police repression—continue to roll across the country, some unions are getting involved. More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide. The protesting students are calling for full disclosure of their universities’ finances and divestment from all financial ties to weapons manufacturers and Israel’s war on Gaza. Unionized academic workers are demanding decision-making power over their work and what it’s used for. For instance, academic workers in the astronomy department of the University of California Santa Cruz have organized to refuse to apply for or accept funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, weapons manufacturers, and military contractors.

Divest Now! A Revolutionary Demand

May 15, 2024 Sara Flounders, Workers' World. Resist! Campus Movement, Divestment, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism

Why have student encampments for Palestine ignited such an uproar of brutal repression, vicious police attacks, mass arrests, overwhelming condemnation in the corporate media and a new level of reactionary legislation in Congress? The demand to divest, raised at almost every encampment, exposes the insidious inroads of the military-industrial complex into the heart of almost all higher education institutions in the U.S. today. This demand to “divest” has revolutionary implications. Divestment is not just a threat to university boards, administrators and their alumni funders. It is a threat to the established capitalist order.

Meet The Violent Zionist Agitators Los Angeles Police Haven’t Arrested

May 15, 2024 Wyatt Reed, The Grayzone. Educate! Campus Movement, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police State, Violence, Zionism, Zionists

On April 30, thirty people were injured when a mob of Zionist hooligans savagely assaulted the pro-Palestine UCLA encampment shortly before midnight. For over three hours, local and campus police stood down as the masked thugs assaulted students, journalists, and even officers of the law with fireworks volleys, pepper spray, and metal pipes. Though multiple attackers have been identified by community members on social media, to date there have been no arrests of pro-Israel goons. The Grayzone has obtained a dossier composed by anonymous sleuths claiming involvement with the UCLA student protests which apparently identifies some of the attack’s perpetrators.

Activists Condemn Israel’s Eurovision Participation

May 13, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Eurovision, Israel, Mass Action, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators opposing Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest rallied in the Swedish City of Malmo on 11 May. Around 6,000 to 8,000 protesters gathered at Malmo's central square and then headed to the contest site, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting "Eurovision united by genocide," a play on the contest's official motto, "united by music." Some demonstrators were also overheard chanting "Shame on you," directed at attendees entering the arena, urging for a boycott of this year's event due to Israel's participation. Pro-Palestinian audience members audibly "booed" Israeli Eurovision artist Eden Golan during her performance.

University Of California, Irvine Suspends Pro-Palestine Students

May 13, 2024 David Pulido, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism

Irvine, CA – “We demand amnesty for student protesters!” said a Palestinian student organizer at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Gaza solidarity encampment. “We’ve made it clear that we are not leaving until all of our demands are met. If anything, the student suspensions have only made us more determined to stay and hold our ground, because this fight is bigger than us. It’s a fight against genocide and our tuition money going towards the weapons that are murdering Palestinians by the Israeli government!” She was one of many voices rallying the community to defend the encampment from campus administration, who suspended numerous students, including three members of the encampment’s negotiating team on Wednesday, May 8.

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.

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.

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