‘UMass Amherst Faculty for Justice in Palestine’ Defend Anti-Israel Students Facing Trespassing Charges
"56 students and one university employee were arrested on campus last October during a protest against Israel"...
"56 students and one university employee were arrested on campus last October during a protest against Israel"...
“Endowment transparency now. Divest from genocide”...
"We have been here the longest. We are the seniors at the school"...
”Bring your keffiyeh/flag/sign, your homework and friends. We have strength in our collectivity!”...
"Georgetown has embraced a professor who speculated in a podcast that Israel was behind the recent attack on Salman Rushdie"...
“To divest from apartheid once means you must continue to divest from apartheid, especially in times like this”...
"The Brown Corporation must heed these calls and promote an immediate ceasefire and a lasting peace by divesting its endowment from companies that enable and profit from the genocide in Gaza and broader Israeli occupation."...
“We take our cue from the armed resistance in Palestine. We are in solidarity with the armed resistance in Palestine from the river to the sea”...
Rejected by 16 No, 4 Yes, in favor of a separate compromise resolution on divesting from military contractors that does not mention Israel or Gaza. This was a pretty resounding defeat for BDS on campus, a reflection not so much of views of the underlying...
“We demand that a referendum be established for students from all schools of Columbia University on the issue of divestment from companies profiting from or otherwise supporting Israeli apartheid and Columbia’s academic ties to Israel”...
"The week was reportedly organized by members of the Harvard graduate student union’s Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) caucus and the African and African American Resistance Organization."...
"The Israeli government created an apartheid state and the Israeli government leaders have espoused genocidal rhetoric and policies against the people of Palestine"...
"The Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation — an on-campus group advocating for the Palestinian cause — organized the demonstration."...
"We refuse to muzzle our criticism of the Israeli siege and genocidal assault on Gaza"...
But the university took "this action with deep reluctance."...
"And [Sanders is] saying, you know, we shouldn't have money for, you know, fund Israel, you know, and the Squad, those people… It's no secret they're horribly antisemitic"...
"Protesters were lying down with white sheets over their bodies ...
On a campus wracked with anti-Israel activism and antisemitic invective, the connection to an anti-Israel national union raises concerns of a renewed BDS effort: "anti-Israel activists should not be permitted to get in through the union back door what they have been unable to get...
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