Editor’s Note: The following statement was initiated by CUNY4Palestine, a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, and community members at CUNY that organizes around the BDS movement and builds solidarity for Palestine. They will also be holding a rally and press conference for BDS on May 28th. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues.
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We, members of the City University of New York community, stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine resisting the violence and oppression of Israeli settler colonial and apartheid rule.
We condemn the brutal bombing of Gaza, one of the world’s most densely populated areas, by Israeli forces. This represents the latest chapter of a nearly-fifteen-year illegal blockade that has transformed the territory into a prison for its two million inhabitants, most of whom descend from refugees expelled and driven from their homes during the Nakba that resulted from the establishment of the settler colonial state of Israel.
We condemn the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah—part of the broader colonial project of dispossession and expulsion, including unequal residency rights and discriminatory planning policies designed to advance the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem. We oppose the raiding of the al-Aqsa mosque and the de facto annexation of East Jerusalem, which is illegally occupied territory.
Against the rain of bombs, against the roving murderous mobs, against settler colonialism, against the support of complacent Western governments, we stand with the people of Palestine.
We mourn all loss of life. But we do not subscribe to a “both sides” rhetoric that erases the military, economic, media, and global power that Israel has over Palestine. This narrative ignores and conceals the meaningful differences between Israel—one of the most heavily militarized states in the world that receives $3.8 billion of military aid annually from the U.S.—and a Palestinian population resisting colonial occupation and oppression. We pledge to do all in our power to change the conversation.
We assert that this is not a “conflict” that is too “controversial and complex” to assess. Since its inception, Israel has used violent force, punitive bureaucracy, and its legal system to expel Palestinians from their rightful homes and to remove Palestinian people from their land. Israeli law systematically discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel. Palestinians are cut off from each other by a network of checkpoints, laws, settler-only highways, and a separation wall that swallows illegally occupied Palestinian land. Both Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem have recently concluded that Israeli policies and practices towards Palestinians amount to apartheid, reinforcing a decades-old analysis of Palestinian and international solidarity organizations.
We wholeheartedly endorse the “Palestine and Praxis” open letter and call to action, affirming our own commitment to speaking out in defense of “the Palestinian struggle as an indigenous liberation movement confronting a settler colonial state,” as well as foundational principles of scholarly integrity and academic freedom. We vow to support those who are most vulnerable to attack for organizing and speaking out on our campuses, including Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and other students, faculty, and staff of color.
We unequivocally endorse and amplify the call from the Palestinian Feminist Collective for “feminists everywhere to speak up, organize, and join the struggle for Palestinian liberation” and the solidarity statement from gender studies departments.
We hail the fortitude and determination of the Palestinian people, who remain, despite the fragmentation of their populations, united in their demands to end their oppression. May 15 marked the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine that drove over 750,000 Palestinians out of their homes, villages, and cities between the years 1947-1949. Today, the vast majority of these Palestinians and their descendants are refugees in bordering countries and in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. We take our stand with Palestinians who have been resisting settler colonialism for more than one hundred years.
Therefore, we pledge to:
- Initiate, support, and amplify campaigns in solidarity with Palestinian calls for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, at CUNY and in our wider communities. In particular, we echo the demands of the John Jay Student Letter to Demand BDS and Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance and stand with any and all student-led resolutions demanding CUNY’s immediate divestment from companies that aid in Israeli colonization, occupation, and war crimes. As of 2014, CUNY invests at least $1,093,900 in weapons manufacturers such as Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon; tech and security companies such as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, G4S, and Motorola Solutions; and construction firms such as Caterpillar and Cemex.
- Demand that our individual campuses, and CUNY as a whole, endorse and support the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
- Stand in solidarity with students, staff, and faculty organizing for justice in Palestine at CUNY and everywhere. In particular, we pledge to push back against attempts to repress Students for Justice in Palestine chapters, and similar student-led efforts, at CUNY or anywhere. The “Palestine exception to free speech” needs to end!
- Highlight Palestinian scholarship on Palestine in syllabi, our writing, and through invitation of Palestinian scholars and community members to speak at departmental and university events, and extend this approach to any and all indigenous scholars within the university and in our communities.
- Support community efforts and legislation to pressure our government to end funding for Israeli military aggression.
Against the rain of bombs, against the roving murderous mobs, against settler colonialism, against the support of complacent Western governments, we stand with the people of Palestine. We join together in rededicating ourselves to working against all forms of racism, colonialism, and injustice at CUNY, in the classroom, on campus, in our communities, and beyond.
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CUNY SIGNATORIES:
- Anthony Alessandrini, Faculty, Kingsborough Community College & Graduate Center
- Christopher Stone, Faculty, Hunter College
- Hajara Masood, Faculty, Hunter College
- Molly Daniels, Student, Hunter College
- Zhun Xu, Faculty, John Jay College
- Corinna Mullin, Faculty, John Jay College
- Margaret Leland Smith, Faculty, John Jay College
- Rupal Oza, Faculty, Hunter College
- Lucien Baskin, Student, Graduate Center
- Sofya Aptekar, Faculty, School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Fatima Tariq, CUNY Alumni, Hunter College
- Adam Wilson, Student, Graduate Center
- Petra Gregory, Student, College of Staten Island, University Student Senate Alternate and Student Advocate with Free CUNY
- Isheta Khanom, Student, CUNY School of Medicine
- Marianne Madoré, Student/Faculty, Graduate Center & Brooklyn College
- Naomi Schiller, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Jeremy Randall, Student, Graduate Center
- Tami Gold, Faculty, Hunter College
- Claire Bishop, Faculty, Graduate Center
- Nicholas Glastonbury, Student, Graduate Center
- Nora Alsahybi, Student, John Jay College
- Johanna Fernandez, Faculty, Baruch College
- Samira Haj, Faculty, College of Staten Island & Graduate Center
- Robyn Spencer, Faculty, Lehman College
- Zehra Husain, Student, Graduate Center
- Brenna McCaffrey, Student, Graduate Center
- Elida Jbeili, CUNY Alumni, Graduate Center
- Nandini Ramachandran, Student, Graduate Center
- Jillian Schwedler, Faculty, Graduate Center
- Sheehan Moore, Student, Graduate Center
- Shima Houshyar, Student, Graduate Center
- Maya Harakawa, Student, Graduate Center
- Conor Tomás Reed, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Sarah Schulman, Distinguished Professor, College of Staten Island
- Alisha Shakoor, Student, CUNY
- Frank Deale, Faculty, CUNY Law School
- Mikey Elster, Student, Graduate Center
- Amber Rivero, Student, John Jay College, University Student Senate Vice Chair of Senior College Affairs & Student Government Association President
- Omnia Khalil, Student, Graduate Center
- Rehma Saleem, CUNY Alumni, Hunter College
- Aya Abdelaziz, CUNY Alumni, Hunter College
- Khaled Al Hilli, Student, Graduate Center/Hunter College
- Musabika Nabiha, Student, John Jay College
- Thayer Hastings, Student, Graduate Center
- Brahim Rouabah, Student, Graduate Center
- Cihan Tekay, Student, Graduate Center
- Glenn Kissack, Faculty, Hunter College High School
- Moustafa Bayoumi, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Jacqueline Brown, Faculty, Hunter College
- David Kanbergs, CUNY Alumni
- Saadia Toor, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Alexis Stern, Alumni, City College
- Sohomjit Ray, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Abir Petiwala, Alumni, City College/Hunter College/Macaulay
- Sana Arshad, Alumni, Hunter College
- Eliza Kamal, Hunter College and Silberman School of Social Work
- Rahenuma, Student, City College
- Ayah Ahmad, Student, Hunter College
- Abdulla Ahmed, Student, Hunter College
- Lindsay Parme, Student, Graduate Center
- Mitchell Kaye, Alumni, CUNY Law School
- Shaimaa Elsafoury, Staff, CUNY School of Public Health
- Jonathan Buchsbaum, Faculty, Queens College
- A. B. Chitty, Staff, Queens College
- Gaurav Jashnani, Staff, Macaulay Honors College
- Sonia J Cheruvillil, Student, CUNY School of Public Health
- Avram Bornstein, Faculty, John Jay College
- Deeadra Brown, Faculty, Hunter College
- Wasie Karim, Alumni, Hunter College
- Valerie Tevere, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Boyda J Johnstone, Faculty, Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Sherry Millner, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Rehnuma Nusrat, Student, Hunter College
- Chaumtoli Huq, Faculty, CUNY Law School
- Richard Furlong, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
- Siraj Ahmed, Faculty, Graduate Center and Lehman College
- Rhea Rahman, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- China Sajadian, Student, Graduate Center
- Ujju Aggarwal, Alumni, Graduate Center
- Gary Wilder, Faculty, Graduate Center
- Robyn Marasco, Faculty, Hunter College
- Alyson K. Spurgas, Alumni, Graduate Center
- Deborah M. Philip, Student, Graduate Center
- Jabir, Student, Hunter College
- Kazembe Balagun, Alumni, Hunter College
- Asmaa Elamrousy, Alumni, Graduate Center
- Adina Marx-Arpadi, Student, CUNY Law School
- Samantha Sherry, Alumni, School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Sami Disu, Faculty, John Jay College
- Matt Brim, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Ganesh K Trichur, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Jay Arena, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Asmaou Diallo, Student, John Jay College
- Maya Edery, Alumni, Hunter College
- Ammiel Alcalay, Faculty, Queens College & Graduate Center
- Nada Elraey, Student
- Marwa Janini, Alumni, Graduate Center
- Vladimir Gurewich, Student, Graduate Center
- Bhakti Shringarpure, Alumni, Graduate Center
- Alexander Elinson, Faculty, Hunter College
- Joseph Entin, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Laura Waldman, Student, CUNY Law School
- Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Alumni, Hunter College
- Jarrett Moran, Student, Graduate Center
- Omnia Khalil, Student, Graduate Center
- Nara Roberta Silva, Faculty
- Jen Gaboury, Faculty, Hunter College
- Tanya Agathocleous, Faculty, Hunter College
- Charisa Smith, Faculty, CUNY Law School
- Linsey Ly, Student, Graduate Center
- Katherine Wilson, Faculty, Hunter College
- Catherine Raissiguier, Faculty, Hunter College
- Diana Moore, Faculty, John Jay College
- Safa Kassim, Alumni, Hunter College
- Suzanne Adely, Alumni, CUNY Law School
- Dr. Lauren Hudson, Faculty, John Jay College
- Karen Miller, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
- Maria Arettines, Alumni, Hunter College
- Zoe Griffith, Faculty, Baruch College
- Lisa Gagliardo, Student, Hunter College
- Sana Nawaz, Alumni, John Jay College
- Samihah Sirajul-Islam, Student, City College of New York
- Hugo Goeury, Student, Graduate Center
- Seon Britton, Student, Graduate Center
- Nicole Haiber, Student, Graduate Center
- Ron Hayduk, Faculty, San Francisco State University
- Jesse Schwartz, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
- Amy Herzog, Faculty, Queens College and Graduate Center
- Sebastian Villamizar Santamaria, Student, Graduate Center
- Joseph Henry, Student, Graduate Center
- Kristina Richardson, Faculty, Queens College and Graduate Center
- Satish Kolluri, Faculty, Pace University
- Justin Beauchamp, Student, Graduate Center
- Gerry Martini, Staff, Graduate Center
- Jane Guskin, Faculty, Queens College
- Tafadar Sourov, Alum, City College, Construction Labor Organizer
- Tara Mateik, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Maya Tellman, Student, Sociology, Graduate Center
- Hanna Goldberg, Student, Graduate Center
- Horacio Ramos, Student, Graduate Center
- Elizabeth Bullock, Alumna, Graduate Center
- Kerry Doran, Student, Graduate Center
- Chinonye Otuonye, Student, Graduate Center
- Jessica Larson, Student, Graduate Center
- Harry Blain, Faculty, Graduate Center
- August G. Smith, Student, Graduate Center
- Darializa Avila Chevalier, Student, Graduate Center
- Chloe Truong-Jones, Student, CUNY Law
- Rex Santus, Student, CUNY Law
- Arooj Alam, Alum, Graduate Center
- Hilarie Ashton, Student, Graduate Center
- H. Ege Ozen, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Milo Ward, Student, Graduate Center
- Krystin Hernandez, Student, CUNY Law
- Nicholas Grosso, Staff, Queens College
- Nicholas Rodrigo, Faculty, John Jay College
- Christopher Santiago, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Simone Harstead, Student, CUNY Law
- Kevin McGinnis, Student, Graduate Center
- Joseph van der Naald, Student, Graduate Center
- Timothy Scott Johnson, Faculty, Graduate Center
- Michelle Gaspari, Student, Graduate Center
- Rebecca Irvine, Student, Graduate Center
- Lawrence Johnson, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Yessenia, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
- Allison Brown, Faculty, City Tech
- Syed Haq, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
- Carly Batist, Student, Graduate Center
- Anam Saleem, Alum, Brooklyn College
- Timothy Shortell, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Quinn Schoen, Student, Graduate Center
- Janine DeFeo, Student, Graduate Center
- Alyshia Gálvez, Faculty, Lehman College
- Christa Salamandra, Faculty, Lehman College
- Sheneca Sharpe, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
- Jack Crawford, Student, Graduate Center
- Eddie J Pesante-Gonzalez, Student, Graduate Center
- Jessie Fredlund, Student, Graduate Center
- Ethan Chiel, Student, CUNY Law
- Jessica Bal, Faculty, CUNY School of Journalism
- Zachary Smith, CUNY School of Journalism
- Ola Galal, Student, Graduate Center
- Mia Curran, Graduate Center
- Anny Oberlink, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
- Taryn Fivek, Faculty, John Jay College
- Aaron Tremper, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
- Krystin Hernandez, Student, CUNY Law
- Öykü Tekten, Student, Graduate Center
- Lara Russo, Alumna CUNY Law
- Mona Reed, Student, Hunter College
- Noura Embabi, Student, Graduate Center
- Sophia Laila Agag, Alumna, Baruch College; Staff, Arab American Association of New York
- Marcus Hyde, Student, CUNY Law
- Marc Kagan, Faculty, Lehman College
- Yzza Sedrati, Student, Graduate Center
- Scott Erich, Student, Graduate Center
- Denny Jacob, Student, CUNY Law
- Kyriakos Ali Christodoulou, Student, Queens College and CUNY BA
- Emily Drabinski, Staff, Graduate Center
- Jonathan Larson, Faculty, Queens College
- Julie Skurski, Faculty, Graduate Center
- Elizabeth Gumport, Student, CUNY Law
- Kaegan Sparks, Student, Graduate Center
- Lili Shi, Faculty, Kingsborough Community College
- Erin Tomlinson, Faculty/Alumna, CUNY Law
- Anumta Raheel, Alumna, Brooklyn College
- Stephanie Sorquira, Student, CUNY Law
- Naomi Braine, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Stephanie Boyle, Faculty, City Tech
- Alana Gaymon, Staff, College of Staten Island
- Britt Munro, Student, Grad Center
- Natasia Dasilva, Alumna, CUNY Law
- Nehal Amer, Student, Grad Center
- Gillian Rowland-Kain, Student, CUNY Law
- Kate Kelley, Student, Grad Center
- Mubbashir Rizvi, Alumni, Brooklyn College
- Shibanee Sivanayagam, Student, Grad Center/Baruch College
- JaLoni Owens, Student, President of Student Government at CUNY Law
- Eliza Marks, Student, Grad Center
- Bianca Williams, Faculty, Grad Center
- Googie Karrass, Student, Grad Center
- Saim Siddiqui, Alumni, Hunter College
- Hailey Lam, Student, Grad Center
- Allison Nicole Smith, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
- Olivia Wood, Student, Grad Center
- Navjot Pal Kaur, Alumni, Baruch College
- Farah Zahra, Student, Grad Center
- Jean Hyemin Kim, Faculty, Baruch College
- Nerdeen Kiswani, Student, CUNY Law
- Anthony Harb, Student, Grad Center
- Martin Aagaard Jensen, Student, Grad Center
- Chloe Brittenham, Student, Grad Center
- Fatoumata Binta Bah, Alumna, Hunter College
- Tamara Maatouk, Student, Grad Center
- Oscar Aponte, Student, Grad Center
- Zoe Goldstein, Student, Grad Center
- Aquilino Gonzalez Solano, Alumni, College of Staten Island
- Rachel Fikslin, Ph.D. Student, Hunter College
- David Patrick Gallagher, Student, Grad Center
- Feigie Bloom, Student, Hunter College
- Binita Zaman, CUNY Alumna
- Maura McCreight, Student, Grad Center
- Gerald Koch, Alumni, CUNY Law
- Caroline Schwab, Student, City College and CUNY for Abolition and Safety
- Sam O’Hana, Grad Center
- Clark Adomaitis, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
- Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Faculty, John Jay College
- Jenny Akchin, Alumna, CUNY Law
- Sarah Weber, Student, Grad Center
- Casey Berner, Student, Grad Center
- Ivy Barrett Fox Bryan, Student, Grad Center/Brooklyn College
- Trey Dellucci, Student, Hunter College
- Tyler Crown, Student, Grad Center
- Adashima Oyo, Student, Grad Center
- Jenny Rossberg, Student, Grad Center
- Daniel Teitell, Student, CUNY Law
- Ramsha Shahid, CUNY Alumna
- Michael L. J. Greer, Student, Grad Center
- Kasey Zapatka, Student, Grad Center
- Roxanne Zech, Student, CUNY Law
- Kelly M Britt, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Karen Hui, Student, Grad Center
- Muhammad Jawad, Student, Baruch College
- Stephen Cheng, Student, CUNY Law
- Jeena Shah, Faculty, CUNY Law
- Kavita Misra, Alumna, CUNY School of Public Health
- Derek Ludovici, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Alexa Punnamkuzhyil, Student, Grad Center
- Ihssan Alsubai, Student, Hunter
- Stuart Chen-Hayes, Faculty, Lehman College
- Leila Walker, Faculty, Queens College
- Jeff Voss, Student/Faculty, Graduate Center/Brooklyn College
- Vallerie Matos, Student, Grad Center
- Eric Dean Wilson, Student, Grad Center
- Jeanne Theoharis, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Eva Steinberg, Student, Grad Center
- George Fragopoulos, Faculty, CUNY
- Velina Manolova, Alumna, Grad Center
- Deborah Leter, Student, Grad Center
- Mobina Hashmi, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Katina Rogers, Staff, Grad Center
- Rafael Gilbert, Student, CUNY Law
- Michael Druffel, Student, Grad Center
- Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz, Alumna, Grad Center
- Tarek Ismail, Faculty, CUNY School of Law
- Carolina Bank Muñoz, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Anna Zeemont, Student, Grad Center
- Ezekiel Finkelstein, Faculty, Lehman College
- Christopher Mejía, Student, Brooklyn College & School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Ja Young Jeon, Student, Grad Center
- Jill Cirasella, Faculty, Grad Center
- Alexander Schlutz, Faculty, John Jay College & Grad Center
- Natasha Ochshorn, Student, Grad Center
- Lynn Zhong, Student, CUNY Law
- Suzie Quarrell, Faculty, Lehman College
- Maya Kouassi, Alumna, CUNY Law
- Ros Petchesky, Emeritus Faculty, Hunter College & Grad Center
- Sara Pekow, Student, Grad Center
- Jesse Rice-Evans, Student, Grad Center
- Sylvia C Korman, Faculty, Lehman College
- Debarati Biswas, Faculty, Hunter College
- Jocelyn Wills, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Humberto Ballesteros, Faculty, Hostos Community College
- Nusrath Jahan Nisha, Alumni, Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges
- Alyx Raz, Student, Grad Center
- Inma Naima Zanoguera, Student, Grad Center
- Mary Ann Caws, Faculty Emerita, Grad Center
- Ozlem Goner, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Khaldoun Abou Tay, Student, BMCC
- Shakila Khan, Student, Hunter College
- Maria Quinata, Student, Grad Center
- Bhargav Rani, Student, Grad Center
- Ayse Akalin, CUNY Alumni
- Zoe Hu, Student, Grad Center
- Saadi Ouaaz, Student CUNY, and American Muslim Defense League
- Brian Pickett, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Rebecca Mlynarczyk, Emeritus Faculty, Grad Center
- Colleen Campbell, Alumna, CUNY Law
- Angela Dunne, Student, Grad Center
- Blanche Wiesen Cook, Faculty, John Jay College and Grad Center
- Emily Price, Student, Grad Center
- Rashmi Viswanathan, CUNY Alumni
- Aaron Botwick, Faculty, Hostos Community College
- Mark-Allan Donaldson, Student, Grad Center
- Timothy Mahoney, Student, Grad Center
- Cristine Khan, Student, Grad Center
- Juno Morrow, Faculty, Hostos Community College
- Anne Spice, Student, Grad Center
- Ellen Goldner, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Fadi Kafeety, Alumni, Grad Center
- Madeleine Barnes, Student, Grad Center
- Colette Gerstmann, Student, Grad Center
- Liana Kallman, Student, School of labor and urban studies
- Rafael Ernesto Peña, Student, Lehman College
- Helene Mbaye, Student, Hunter College
- Meg Kallman Feeley, Faculty, Kingsborough Community College
- Sa’dia Rehman, Alumni, City College
- James Hession, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Hala Embabi, CUNY Alumna, Grad Center
- Alexander Zevin, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Erik B. Wallenberg, Student, Graduate Center
- Dhipinder Walia, Student, Graduate Center
- Shirley S Li, Student, Graduate Center
- Isaiah Montoya, Student, BMCC
- Chris Carpenter, Student, Graduate Center
- Kirsten Gill, Student, Graduate Center
- Jacob Collins, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Suzie Oppenheimer, Student, Graduate Center
- Amy Martin, Student, Graduate Center
- Amber Grof, Student, Graduate Center
- Lara Saguisag, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Alycia Sellie, Faculty, Graduate Center
- Joshua Mejia, Student, BMCC
- Sydney Collazo, Student, BMCC
- Shahrooz Nasir, Alumni, Hunter College
- Cylantra K Dees, Student, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Hosu Kim, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Andreina Barthly, Student, CUNY
- Patricia Ticiento Clough, Faculty, Queens College and the Graduate Center
- Arman Azimi, Student, Grad Center
- Aisha Munir, Student, Hunter College
- Yzza Sedrati, Student, Grad Center
- Inés Vañó García, Student, Grad Center
- Patricia Alessandrini, Alumna, CUNY
- Aseel Sawalha, Alumna, Grad Center
- Asmaa Butt, Alumna, Hunter College
- Luu, Alumni, CUNY
- John P Pittman, Faculty, John Jay College
- Nehal Naser, Alumni, Kingsborough Community College
- Zamara Choudhary, Alumni, Hunter College
- Sydney Collazo, Student, BMCC
- Liora Cohen-Fraade, Alumna, CUNY Law
- Michael Salcido, Student, Grad Center
- Katharine C. Beer, Alumna, Hunter College and Palestine Solidarity Alliance
- Eman Gad, Student
- Sneha Jayaraj, Student
- Farzana Ali, Student, CUNY Law
- Theresa Horvath, Student, Grad Center
- Patricia Cipollitti, Student, Grad Center
- Dhruv Gupta, Student, Queens College
- Laura Tanenbaum, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
- Marlyn Paulino, Student, Queens College
- Bilge Yesil, Faculty, College of Staten Island & Grad Center
- Katherine Caldwell, Student, Grad Center
- Peter Ranis, Emeritus Faculty, Grad Center
- Lan Li
- Dominic Wetzel, Faculty, Kingsborough
- Andrea Khalil, Faculty, Queens College/Grad Center
- Stephen Blum, Faculty, Grad Center (retired)
- Vani Kannan, Faculty, Lehman College
- Mohamed Aboseria, CUNY Alumni
- Tajwar Alom, Student, Queens College
- Faisal Khan, Alumni, City College
- Jamila Hammami, Alumna, Grad Center
- Linta Varghese, Faculty, BMCC
- Kinza Iftikhar, Alumna, John Jay College
- John Whitlow, Faculty, CUNY Law
- Ateea Kazi, Alumna, City College
- Elizabeth Oram, Faculty, Hunter College School of Nursing
- Rose M. Kim, Faculty, BMCC
- Andrea Morrell, Faculty, Guttman Community College
- Kristin Lawler, Alumna, Grad Center
- Marcus Hyde, Student, CUNY Law
- Alex Wolf, Faculty, Bronx Community College
- Zaid Nakadar, Alumni, Brooklyn College
- Jeannette Graulau, Faculty, Lehman College
- Shoumik Bhattacharya, Student, Grad Center
- Elhum Haghighat, Faculty, Lehman College
- Mary Taylor, Staff, Grad Center, Center for Place, Culture and Politics
- Jack Hirschman, Alumni, CCNY, Emeritus Poet Laureate of San Francisco
- Samuel Finesurrey, Faculty, Guttman Community College
- Stephen Leberstein, Faculty, City College and Center for Worker Education (retired)
- Jessica Taube, Faculty, Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work
- Anthony O’Brien, Faculty Emeritus, Queens College
- Kate Sheese, Student, Grad Center
- Nebahat Avcioglu, Faculty, Hunter College
- Talha Ahmad, Alumni, Hunter College
- Rani Allan, Alumni, Hunter College and Palestine Solidarity Alliance
- José Miguel Martínez Torrejón, Faculty, Queens College
- Tyler T. Schmidt, Faculty, Lehman College
- Jonathan H Shannon, Faculty, Hunter College
- Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, CUNY Alumna
- Melissa Horger, Student, Grad Center
- Lisa Jahn, Student, Grad Center
- Zeyna Noor, Student, CUNY Law School
- Sarah Schwartz, Student, Grad Center
- Melissa Horger, Student, Grad Center
- Lisa Jahn, Student, Grad Center
- Zeyna Noor, Student, CUNY Law
- Sarah Schwartz, Student, Grad Center
- Anne Hays, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Melissa Castillo Planas, Lehman College
- Donna Lee Granville, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Gehad Abdelrehim, Student, CUNY Law
- Beth Baron, Faculty
- Oumar Siby, Student, Hunter College
- Sandra Moyano-Ariza, Student, Grad Center
- Maxine Krenzel, Student, Grad Center
- Destry Maria Sibley, Student, Grad Center and Teaching Fellow, City College
- Tahiya Choudhury, Student, CUNY
- Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma, Post-Doc, Grad Center
- Farooq Shirzad, Student, Hunter College
- Komal Khosla, Student, John Jay College
- Akram Ishmael, Student, CUNY
- Bintou Kamara, Student, CUNY
- Maggie Dickinson, Faculty, Guttman Community College
- Matthew Chrisler, Student, Grad Center
- CalvinJohn Smiley, Faculty, Hunter College
- Thomas Watters, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Andréa Stellap, Faculty, City College
- Ahmed Hassan Faizi, Student, Hunter College
- Mahmuda Khanom, Student, CUNY
- Ian Olasov, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Omar Dibba, Alumni, Hunter College
- Jacob Aplaca, Student, Grad Center
- Izza Nawaz, Student, Hunter College
- Indie Pranvera, Alumna, City College of New York
- Miranda Hajduk, Student, Grad Center
- Jane Holzka, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
- Jessi McNeill, Student, Grad Center
- Maham Khan, Student, Hunter College
- Tess Wolterstorff, Student, Lehman College
- Gemma Thomas-Ahyase, Alumna, CUNY
- Rachel Brown, Alumna, Grad Center
- David Klassen, Faculty, BMCC
- Lou Cornum, Alumni, Grad Center
- Sarah Molinari, Student, Grad Center
- Cindi Katz, Faculty, Grad Center
- Karen E., Alumna, CUNY
- Matthew Lau, Faculty, Queensborough Community College
- Keith Miyake, Alumni, Grad Center
- Melissa Minnich, Student, School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Priscilla Bustamante, Student, Grad Center
- David Kazanjian, Faculty Emeritus, Queens College and the Graduate Center
- Carah A. Naseem, Alumna, Hunter College
- Anthony Dest, Faculty, Lehman College
- Mitra Rastegar, Alumna, Grad Center
- Naomi Podber, Student, Grad Center
- Dialika Sall, Faculty, Lehman College
- Gemma Sharpe, Alumna, Grad Center
- Laura E. Rivas, Student, Grad Center
- Jennifer MacKenzie, Faculty, Lehman College
- Shza Zaki, Student, City College
- Bill Friedheim, Emeritus Faculty, BMCC
- Katherine Hejtmanek, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Shza Zaki, Student, City College
- Max Kirsch, Alumni, CUNY
- Jarrettia Adams, Alumna, CUNY
- Varnica Arora, Student, Grad Center
- Ismael García Colón, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Goutam Gajula, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Jessie Stein, Student, Grad Center
- Merle Ratner, Student, School of Labor and Urban Studies
- John McMahon, Alumni, Grad Center
- Stephanie Love, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Laura Matthews, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Lynn Horridge, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Esra Padgett, Student, Grad Center
- James Biles, Faculty, City College and Grad Center
- Christa Paterline, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Tom Angotti, Emeritus Faculty, Hunter College and the Graduate Center
- Lala Peñaranda, Staff, CUNY School for Urban and Labor Studies
- Kazi Tejwar, Student, City College, USG Senator
- Aiah Abdelmegid, Student, City College
- Yasmine Awais, Student, Grad Center
- Aysheh Barqawi, Student, Hunter College
- Xhuli Agolli, Student, Grad Center
- Bec Everett, Student, City College
- Aiah Abdelmegid, Student, City College
- Patricia Antoniello, Faculty, Brooklyn College
- Kelsey Swift, Student, Grad Center
- Oumar Siby, Student, Hunter College
- Farzana Yasmin Samad, Alumni, Hunter College
- Caroline K. Hong, Faculty, Queens College
- Samreen, Student, Baruch College
- Sham Habteselasse, Student, Grad Center
- Julia Pressman, Alumni, Silberman School of Social Work
- Sandra Goldstein Lehnert, Student, Grad Center
- Nancy Stern, Faculty, City College
- George De Stefano, Alumni, Hunter College School of Social Work
- Shuhrat Jahan, Student, Hunter College
- Preeti Sampat, Alumni
- Rachel Valinsky, Student, Grad Center
- Anonymous, Alumni
- Ammara Khan, Student
- Sarah Benesch, Faculty, College of Staten Island
- Nandini Bagchee, Faculty, City College
- Juline Koken, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
- Victoria Frye, CUNY School of Medicine
- Michelle Balon, Alumni, Hunter College
- Kirsten Cole, Faculty, BMCC
- Martha D, Alumni
- Brian Prager, Faculty, BMCC
- Ali C. Hocek, Faculty, City College
- Sayem Shah, Student, City College
- Nicole Bass, Student, City College
- Hamees Gabr, Student, City College
- Hajar Alrifai, Student, City College, Chair, Future Architects of the Middle East
- Krystal Hernandez, Student, City College
- Helen Kapstein, Faculty, John Jay
- Helena Najm, Student, Grad Center
Organizational Endorsements:
- Anti-Racist Coalition, Brooklyn College
- Arabic Program, Hunter College
- CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
- Colombian Studies Group, Graduate Center
- Critical Palestine Studies Association, Graduate Center
- CUNY for Abolition and Safety
- CUNY for Palestine
- Department of Women and Gender Studies, Hunter College
- Free CUNY!
- Jewish Law Student Association (JLSA), CUNY Law School
- Jewish Voice For Peace – New York
- Muslim Students Association of Hunter College
- Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College
- Postcolonial Studies Group, Graduate Center
- Puerto Rican Alliance of Brooklyn College
- Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- Student Government of CUNY School of Law
Non-CUNY Supporters:
- Sheetal Chhabria, Associate Professor, Connecticut College
- Junaid Khan, Business
- Saumya Pandey, PhD candidate, CMI, Norway & University of Ghent, Belgium
- Allison Brown, NYU alum, Brooklyn-based academic editor
- Amir Moosavi, Faculty, Rutgers University-Newark
- Dina Ramadan, Faculty, Bard College
- Shehla Khan, Faculty, Keele University
- Nadine Zubair, Staff, University of East Anglia
- Elizabeth M Holt, Faculty, Bard College
- Reem Khurshid
- Winnie Lem, Faculty, Trent University
- Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick, UK
- Graham L. Carter, SLU
- Vasuki Nesiah, Faculty, NYU
- Albina Islam
- Fareed Qureshi, Writer
- Rubina Saigol, Women Action Forum Pakistan
- Huma Dar, Faculty, California College of the Arts
- Fahad Maral
- Shabana Mir, Faculty, American Islamic College
- Sherene Seikaly, Faculty, UCSB
- Fatima Anwar, Lawyer, Engage Foundation
- Touseef Mir, Postgraduate Researcher
- Hanan Kashou, Faculty, Rutgers University ,New Brunswick
- Azra Talat Sayeed, Activist, Roots for Equity, Pakistan
- Nusrat Jamil
- Debashree Mukherjee, Faculty, Columbia University
- George D Baca, Faculty, Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea
- Marzia Raza, Student, University of Osnabrück, Germany
- Arif
- Sheema Kermani, Artist, Tehrik-e-Niswan
- Koenraad Bogaert, Faculty, Ghent University
- Fahad Desmukh
- Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English
- Mahvish Ahmad, Faculty, London School of Economics
- Amira Pierce, Faculty, New York University
- Olga Touloumi, Bard College
- Sarah Rogers, Faculty, Middlebury College
- Shefali Chandra, Faculty, Washington University in St. Louis
- Omar Cheta, Faculty, Bard College
- Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University
- George Aumoithe, Faculty, SUNY-Stony Brook
- Lara Deeb, Faculty, Scripps College
- Angela Ting, Graduate Teaching Assistant, UIUC
- Gloria Walsh
- Rebecca Ruth Gould, Faculty, University of Birmingham
- Mosad Abouelrigal
- Kirsten Scheid, Faculty, The American University of Beirut
- Sahada Musah
- Lakshmi Krishnamurty
- Rohini Hensman, Writer and Researcher
- Fefa Vila Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) – Spain
- Karim Malak, Student, Columbia University
- Layli Uddin, Research Fellow, King’s College London
- Mustafa Ziyalan
- Chandana Mathur, Faculty, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- Mahmoud Moaz
- Amy Lang, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University
- Anna Bernard, Faculty, King’s College London
- Nader Mohamed, Medical Student, SUNY Downstate
- Nada Shabout, Faculty, University of North Texas
- Elizabeth Bishop, Faculty, Texas State University
- Nidhin
- Aisha al-Adawiya, Founder, Women In Islam Inc
- Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi, NYU
- Muhammed Shah Shajahan, Student, Virginia Tech University
- Shela Sheikh, Faculty, University of London, UK
- Cindy Hwang
- Nicolas Linnert, Editor and Writer
- Habib Malik
- Jessica Coffrin-St. Julien, Student, NYU Law
- Dianne Ramdeholl, Faculty, SUNY Empire State College
- Brenda Biddle, Faculty, Adelphi University
- Darlene Dubuisson, Faculty, University of Pittsburgh
- Neha Sood
- Svenn Grant
- Hyunjee N. Kim
