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CUCFA Statement On Campus Protests May 7, 2024 - The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) denounces the growing number of attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza that is supported economically and politically by the United States....
Posted: Tue, May 14, 2024 11:41pm PDT
UNRWA and Co: Netanyahu's war against the truth Journalists and Israel critics as Hamas accomplices
The Netanyahu government has also been very successful in spreading narratives that declare anyone who supports the Palestinians in Gaza with humanitarian aid, reports on their suffering and criticizes the actions of the Israeli government as Hamas accomplices, Hamas misunderstanders and anti-Semites....
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2024 3:08pm PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks with CUNY Students at Free Palestine Encampment (audio/mpeg 9.5MB) Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With CUNY Students at Free Palestine Encampment (April 26th 9:41 PM)...
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2024 10:55am PDT
Arizona Universities Attack Students for Palestine While Partnering with War Contractors 
Arizona's universities, once known for their sunshine and free spirit, are now hallmarks of censorship and oppression. The University of Arizona in Tucson, and Arizona State University in Tempe, are partnered with defense contractors, including Raytheon Missiles, a top war profiteer. The universities are smashing support for Palestine, and censoring voices opposed to war crimes and genocide....
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2024 9:00am PDT
Covering Palestine and Journalists Deaths in Gaza 
Reflecting on the unprecedented number of journalists killed in Gaza by the Israeli military along with their intentional killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh two years ago, the Arab Center Washington, DC held an all-day symposium at the National Press Club (NPC) delving into the state of press coverage and journalists’ deaths in Palestine and Gaza....
Posted: Sun, May 12, 2024 9:39am PDT
1,000 Grandmothers’ Action Calls for End to Genocide 
As the UN General Assembly today announced its adoption of a resolution in support of full-member status for Palestinian Statehood, activists from Code Pink and others were visiting the offices of U.S. senators in the Hart Senate Office Building to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end......
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2024 6:34pm PDT
When Students Are a Shock to the System War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young. Appearing in TomDispatch...
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2024 12:05pm PDT
UAWC in Palestine Letter to Student and Youth Movements 
30 April 2024...
Posted: Wed, May 8, 2024 11:23pm PDT
GW Encampment Shut Down by Police; Students Arrested 
Pro-Palestinian student protesters and others at the George Washington University tent encampment were arrested after failing to leave university property in an early morning coordinated police action. Around 03:30 after having been warned to leave the university property and threatened with arrest for failure to do so, a coordinated police action by campus police and 500 Metro DC officers began clearing the area at University Yard (U-Yard)....
Posted: Wed, May 8, 2024 4:37pm PDT
Compassionate Genocide The issue is not whether and how Israel lets trucks with the much-needed supplies into Gaza; it is the nearly two-decade-long siege of the Strip, worsened by the most recent devastation. Both literally and figuratively, humanitarianism does not ameliorate the situation on the ground. On the contrary, humanitarian discourse strives to make the intolerable barely tolerable....
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2024 5:05pm PDT
Student encampments are the laboratory of our future 
Importantly, in the case of this student movement, it should not be lost on anyone that part of the reason it has been so easily attacked by ill-intentioned critics and demonized in the media and elsewhere is because it is largely composed of and led by people of color. Until we see racism through the prism of power, we will never fully get it....
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2024 12:48pm PDT
GW President Calls for End to Protest; Students Vow to Continue 
Student protest leaders at George Washington University (GW) held an afternoon news conference today in the aftermath of an email letter sent out yesterday to the GW community from President Ellen M. Granberg regarding the ongoing campus encampment for Gaza protest....
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2024 5:55pm PDT
AHA Statement on 2024 Campus Protests 
Approved by AHA Council, May 2024...
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2024 3:56pm PDT
“Palestinian Embassy” Participates in Passport DC 
This year a Pop-up Palestinian Culture Street Fest/protest was held at the Embassy of Palestine on a crowded public sidewalk directly across the street from the Israeli Embassy. Today’s event included passport stamping, along with Palestinian arts, crafts and fashions for sale, free Palestinian food samples, as well as children’s activities and numerous protest signs and banners. Included, too, were handouts with information about Israel’s genocide taking place in Gaza...
Posted: Sat, May 4, 2024 2:52pm PDT
Gaza Student Protest at GWU Continues to Grow 
Students at GWU continue on with their protest and encampment as the university preppares to have them removed....
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 5:47pm PDT
UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Press Release 
April 30, 2024 - The life-threatening assault we face tonight is nothing less than a horrifying, despicable act of terror. For over seven hours, zionist aggressors hurled gas canisters, sprayed pepper spray, and threw fireworks and bricks into our encampment. They broke our barriers repeatedly, clearly in an attempt to kill our community....
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2024 6:09am PDT
Freedom Flotilla (audio/mpeg 2.8MB) Freedom Flotilla delayed by Israel 2m30s...
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 9:05pm PDT
NLG Condemns Attacks on Gaza Solidarity Encampments 
April 25th, 2024 - The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) unequivocally condemns the ongoing repression of pro-Palestinian activism taking place on university campuses across the country. The NLG is firm in its support for a free Palestine, and is against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank. The violent and unprovoked attacks by police on student encampments at Columbia, Yale, NYU, University of Southern California, Emory, University of Texas, and other universities ex...
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 11:36pm PDT
Columbia Students File Civil Rights Complaint After NYPD Arrests, National Guard Threat 
April 25, New York, NY – Today, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), demanding an investigation into Columbia University’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear — for the first time in decades — to arrest over a hundred students peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide last week....
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 3:55pm PDT