Editor’s Note: The following statement was initiated by CUNY4Palestine, a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, and community members at CUNY that organize around the BDS movement and build 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.
[To add your name, please click here or email cuny.solidarity.letter@gmail.com]
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:
1. Anthony Alessandrini, Faculty, Kingsborough Community College & Graduate Center
2. Christopher Stone, Faculty, Hunter College
3. Hajara Masood, Faculty, Hunter College
4. Molly Daniels, Student, Hunter College
5. Zhun Xu, Faculty, John Jay College
6. Corinna Mullin, Faculty, John Jay College
7. Margaret Leland Smith, Faculty, John Jay College
8. Rupal Oza, Faculty, Hunter College
9. Lucien Baskin, Student, Graduate Center
10. Sofya Aptekar, Faculty, School of Labor and Urban Studies
11. Fatima Tariq, CUNY Alumni, Hunter College
12. Adam Wilson, Student, Graduate Center
13. Petra Gregory, Student, College of Staten Island, University Student Senate Alternate and Student Advocate w/ Free CUNY
14. Isheta Khanom, Student, CUNY School of Medicine
15. Marianne Madoré, Student/Faculty, Graduate Center & Brooklyn College
16. Naomi Schiller, Faculty, Brooklyn College
17. Jeremy Randall, Student, Graduate Center
18. Tami Gold, Faculty, Hunter College
19. Claire Bishop, Faculty, Graduate Center
20. Nicholas Glastonbury, Student, Graduate Center
21. Nora Alsahybi, Student, John Jay College
22. Johanna Fernandez, Faculty, Baruch College
23. Samira Haj, Faculty, College of Staten Island & Graduate Center
24. Robyn Spencer, Faculty, Lehman College
25. Zehra Husain, Student, Graduate Center
26. Brenna McCaffrey, Student, Graduate Center
27. Elida Jbeili, CUNY Alumni, Graduate Center
28. Nandini Ramachandran, Student, Graduate Center
29. Jillian Schwedler, Faculty, Graduate Center
30. Sheehan Moore, Student, Graduate Center
31. Shima Houshyar, Student, Graduate Center
32. Maya Harakawa, Student, Graduate Center
33. Conor Tomás Reed, Faculty, Brooklyn College
34. Sarah Schulman, Distinguished Professor, College of Staten Island
35. Alisha Shakoor, Student, CUNY
36. Frank Deale, Faculty, CUNY Law School
37. Mikey Elster, Student, Graduate Center
38. Amber Rivero, Student, John Jay College, University Student Senate Vice Chair of Senior College Affairs & Student Government Assocation President
39. Omnia Khalil, Student, Graduate Center
40. Rehma Saleem, CUNY Alumni, Hunter College
41. Aya Abdelaziz, CUNY Alumni, Hunter College
42. Khaled Al Hilli, Student, Graduate Center/Hunter College
43. Musabika Nabiha, Student, John Jay College
44. Thayer Hastings, Student, Graduate Center
45. Brahim Rouabah, Student, Graduate Center
46. Cihan Tekay, Student, Graduate Center
47. Glenn Kissack, Faculty, Hunter College High School
48. Moustafa Bayoumi, Faculty, Brooklyn College
49. Jacqueline Brown, Faculty, Hunter College
50. Burcu Ozdemir, Student, Graduate Center
51. David Kanbergs, CUNY Alumni
52. Saadia Toor, Faculty, College of Staten Island
53. Alexis Stern, Alumni, City College
54. Sohomjit Ray, Faculty, College of Staten Island
55. Abir Petiwala, Alumni, City College/Hunter College/Macaulay
56. Sana Arshad, Alumni, Hunter College
57. Eliza Kamal, Hunter College and Silberman School of Social Work
58. Rahenuma, Student, City College
59. Ayah Ahmad, Student, Hunter College
60. Abdulla Ahmed, Student, Hunter College
61. Lindsay Parme, Student, Graduate Center
62. Mitchell Kaye, Alumni, CUNY Law School
63. Shaimaa Elsafoury, Staff, CUNY School of Public Health
64. Jonathan Buchsbaum, Faculty, Queens College
65. A. B. Chitty, Staff, Queens College
66. Gaurav Jashnani, Staff, Macaulay Honors College
67. Sonia J Cheruvillil, Student, CUNY School of Public Health
68. Avram Bornstein, Faculty, John Jay College
69. Deeadra Brown, Faculty, Hunter College
70. Wasie Karim, Alumni, Hunter College
71. Valerie Tevere, Faculty, College of Staten Island
72. Boyda J Johnstone, Faculty, Borough of Manhattan Community College
73. Sherry Millner, Faculty, College of Staten Island
74. Rehnuma Nusrat, Student, Hunter College
75. Chaumtoli Huq, Faculty, CUNY Law School
76. Richard Furlong, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
77. Siraj Ahmed, Faculty, Graduate Center and Lehman College
78. Rhea Rahman, Faculty, Brooklyn College
79. China Sajadian, Student, Graduate Center
80. Ujju Aggarwal, Alumni, Graduate Center
81. Gary Wilder, Faculty, Graduate Center
82. Robyn Marasco, Faculty, Hunter College
83. Alyson K. Spurgas, Alumni, Graduate Center
84. Deborah M. Philip, Student, Graduate Center
85. Jabir, Student, Hunter College
86. Kazembe Balagun, Alumni, Hunter College
87. Asmaa Elamrousy, Alumni, Graduate Center
88. Adina Marx-Arpadi, Student, CUNY Law School
89. Samantha Sherry, Alumni, School of Labor and Urban Studies
90. Sami Disu, Faculty, John Jay College
91. Matt Brim, Faculty, College of Staten Island
92. Ganesh K Trichur, Faculty, College of Staten Island
93. Jay Arena, Faculty, College of Staten Island
94. Asmaou Diallo, Student, John Jay College
95. Maya edery, Alumni, Hunter College
96. Ammiel Alcalay, Faculty, Queens College & Graduate Center
97. Nada Elraey, Student
98. Marwa Janini, Alumni, Graduate Center
99. Vladimir Gurewich, Student, Graduate Center
100. Bhakti Shringarpure, Alumni, Graduate Center
101. Alexander Elinson, Faculty, Hunter College
102. Joseph Entin, Faculty, Brooklyn College
103. Laura Waldman, Student, CUNY Law School
104. Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Alumni, Hunter College
105. Jarrett Moran, Student, Graduate Center
106. Omnia Khalil, Student, Graduate Center
107. Nara Roberta Silva, Faculty
108. Jen Gaboury, Faculty, Hunter College
109. Tanya Agathocleous, Faculty, Hunter College
110. Charisa Smith, Faculty, CUNY Law School
111. Linsey Ly, Student, Graduate Center
112. Katherine Wilson, Faculty, Hunter College
113. Catherine Raissiguier, Faculty, Hunter College
114. Diana Moore, Faculty, John Jay College
115. Safa Kassim, Alumni, Hunter College
116. Suzanne Adely, Alumni, CUNY Law School
117. Dr. Lauren Hudson, Faculty, John Jay College
118. Karen Miller, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
119. Maria Arettines, Alumni, Hunter College
120. Zoe Griffith, Faculty, Baruch College
121. Lisa Gagliardo, Student, Hunter College
122. Sana Nawaz, Alumni, John Jay College
123. Samihah Sirajul-Islam, Student, City College of New York
124. Hugo Goeury, Student, Graduate Center
125. Seon Britton, Student, Graduate Center
126. Nicole Haiber, Student, Graduate Center
127. Ron Hayduk, Faculty, San Francisco State University
128. Jesse Schwartz, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
129. Amy Herzog, Faculty, Queens College and Graduate Center
130. Sebastian Villamizar Santamaria, Student, Graduate Center
131. Joseph Henry, Student, Graduate Center
132. Kristina Richardson, Faculty, Queens College and Graduate Center
133. Satish Kolluri, Faculty, Pace University
134. Justin Beauchamp, Student, Graduate Center
135. Gerry Martini, Staff, Graduate Center
136. Jane Guskin, Faculty, Queens College
137. Tafadar Sourov, Alum, City College, Construction Labor Organizer
138. Tara Mateik, Faculty, College of Staten Island
139. Maya Tellman, Student, Sociology, Graduate Center
140. Hanna Goldberg, Student, Graduate Center
141. Horacio Ramos, Student, Graduate Center
142. Elizabeth Bullock, Alumna, Graduate Center
143. Kerry Doran, Student, Graduate Center
144. Chinonye Otuonye, Student, Graduate Center
145. Jessica Larson, Student, Graduate Center
146. Harry Blain, Faculty, Graduate Center
147. August G. Smith, Student, Graduate Center
148. Darializa Avila Chevalier, Student, Graduate Center
149. Chloe Truong-jones, Student, CUNY Law
150. Rex Santus, Student, CUNY Law
151. Arooj Alam, Alum, Graduate Center
152. Hilarie Ashton, Student, Graduate Center
153. H. Ege Ozen, Faculty, College of Staten Island
154. Milo Ward, Student, Graduate Center
155. Krystin Hernandez, Student, CUNY Law
156. Nicholas Grosso, Staff, Queens College
157. Nicholas Rodrigo, Faculty, John Jay College
158. Christopher Santiago, Faculty, College of Staten Island
159. Simone Harstead, Student, CUNY Law
160. Kevin McGinnis, Student, Graduate Center
161. Joseph van der Naald, Student, Graduate Center
162.Timothy Scott Johnson, Faculty, Graduate Center
163. Michelle Gaspari, Student, Graduate Center
164. Rebecca Irvine, Student, Graduate Center
165. Lawrence Johnson, Faculty, Brooklyn College
166. Yessenia, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
167. Allison Brown, Faculty, City Tech
168. Syed Haq, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
169. Carly Batist, Student, Graduate Center
170. Anam Saleem, Alum, Brooklyn College
171. Timothy Shortell, Faculty, Brooklyn College
172. Quinn Schoen, Student, Graduate Center
173. Janine DeFeo, Student, Graduate Center
174. Alyshia Gálvez, Faculty, Lehman College
175. Christa Salamandra, Faculty, Lehman College
176. Sheneca Sharpe, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
177. Jack Crawford, Student, Graduate Center
178. Eddie J Pesante-Gonzalez, Student, Graduate Center
179. Jessie Fredlund, Student, Graduate Center
180. Ethan Chiel, Student, CUNY Law
181. Jessica Bal, Faculty, CUNY School of Journalism
182. Zachary Smith, CUNY School of Journalism
183. Ola Galal, Student, Graduate Center
184. Mia Curran, Graduate Center
185. Anny Oberlink, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
186. Taryn Fivek, Faculty, John Jay College
187. Aaron Tremper, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
188. Krystin Hernandez, Student, CUNY Law
189. Öykü Tekten, Student, Graduate Center
190. Guney Demir, Student, Graduate Center
191. Lara Russo, Alumna CUNY Law
192. Mona Reed, Student, Hunter College
193. Noura Embabi, Student, Graduate Center
194. Sophia Laila Agag, Alumna, Baruch College; Staff, Arab American Association of New York
195. Marcus Hyde, Student, CUNY Law
196. Marc Kagan, Faculty, Lehman College
197. Yzza Sedrati, Student, Graduate Center
198. Scott Erich, Student, Graduate Center
199. Denny Jacob, Student, CUNY Law
200. Kyriakos Ali Christodoulou, Student, Queens College and CUNY BA
201. Emily Drabinski, Staff, Graduate Center
202. Jonathan Larson, Faculty, Queens College
203. Julie Skurski, Faculty, Graduate Center
204. Elizabeth Gumport, Student, CUNY Law
205. Kaegan Sparks, Student, Graduate Center
206. Lili Shi, Faculty, Kingsborough Community College
207. Erin Tomlinson, Faculty/Alumna, CUNY Law
208. Anumta Raheel, Alumna, Brooklyn College
209. Stephanie Sorquira, Student, CUNY Law
210. Naomi Braine, Faculty, Brooklyn College
211. Stephanie Boyle, Faculty, City Tech
212. Alana Gaymon, Staff, College of Staten Island
213. Britt Munro, Student, Grad Center
214. Natasia Dasilva, Alumna, CUNY Law
215. Nehal Amer, Student, Grad Center
216. Gillian Rowland-Kain, Student, CUNY Law
217. Kate Kelley, Student, Grad Center
218. Mubbashir Rizvi, Alumni, Brooklyn College
219. Shibanee Sivanayagam, Student, Grad Center/Baruch College
220. JaLoni Owens, Student, President of Student Government at CUNY Law
221. Eliza Marks, Student, Grad Center
222. Bianca Williams, Faculty, Grad Center
223. Googie Karrass, Student, Grad Center
224. Saim Siddiqui, Alumni, Hunter College
225. Hailey Lam, Student, Grad Center
226. Allison Nicole Smith, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
227. Olivia Wood, Student, Grad Center
228. Navjot Pal Kaur, Alumni, Baruch College
229. Farah Zahra, Student, Grad Center
230. Jean Hyemin Kim, Faculty, Baruch College
231. Nerdeen Kiswani, Student, CUNY Law
232. Anthony Harb, Student, Grad Center
233. Martin Aagaard Jensen, Student, Grad Center
234. Chloe Brittenham, Student, Grad Center
235. Fatoumata Binta Bah, Alumna, Hunter College
236. Tamara Maatouk, Student, Grad Center
237. Oscar Aponte, Student, Grad Center
238. Zoe Goldstein, Student, Grad Center
239. Aquilino Gonzalez Solano, Alumni, College of Staten Island
240. Rachel Fikslin, Ph.D. Student, Hunter College
241. David Patrick Gallagher, Student, Grad Center
242. Mehrnaz Moghaddam, Student, Grad Center
243. Feigie Bloom, Student, Hunter College
244. Binita Zaman, CUNY Alumna
245. Maura McCreight, Student, Grad Center
246. Gerald Koch, Alumni, CUNY Law
247. Caroline Schwab, Student, City College and CUNY for Abolition and Safety
248. Sam O’Hana, Grad Center
249. Clark Adomaitis, Student, CUNY School of Journalism
250. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Faculty, John Jay College
251. Jenny Akchin, Alumna, CUNY Law
252. Sarah Weber, Student, Grad Center
253. Casey Berner, Student, Grad Center
254. Ivy Barrett Fox Bryan, Student, Grad Center/Brooklyn College
255. Trey Dellucci, Student, Hunter College
256. Tyler Crown, Student, Grad Center
257. Adashima Oyo, Student, Grad Center
258. Jenny Rossberg, Student, Grad Center
259. Daniel Teitell, Student, CUNY Law
260. Ramsha Shahid, CUNY Alumna
261. Michael L. J. Greer, Student, Grad Center
262. Kasey Zapatka, Student, Grad Center
263. Roxanne Zech, Student, CUNY Law
264. Kelly M Britt, Faculty, Brooklyn College
265. Karen Hui, Student, Grad Center
266. Muhammad Jawad, Student, Baruch College
267. Stephen Cheng, Student, CUNY Law
268. Jeena Shah, Faculty, CUNY Law
269. Kavita Misra, Alumna, CUNY School of Public Health
270. Derek Ludovici, Faculty, Brookly College
271. Alexa Punnamkuzhyil, Student, Grad Center
272. Ihssan Alsubai, Student, Hunter
273. Stuart Chen-Hayes, Faculty, Lehman College
274. Leila Walker, Faculty, Queens College
275. Jeff Voss, Student/Faculty, Graduate Center/Brooklyn College
276. Vallerie Matos, Student, Grad Center
277. Eric Dean Wilson, Student, Grad Center
278. Jeanne Theoharis, Faculty, Brooklyn College
279. Eva Steinberg, Student, Grad Center
280. George Fragopoulos, Faculty, CUNY
281. Velina Manolova, Alumna, Grad Center
282. Deborah Leter, Student, Grad Center
283. Mobina Hashmi, Faculty, Brooklyn College
284. Katina Rogers, Staff, Grad Center
285. Rafael Gilbert, Student, CUNY Law
286. Michael Druffel, Student, Grad Center
287. Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz, Alumna, Grad Center
288. Tarek Ismail, Faculty, CUNY School of Law
289. Carolina Bank Muñoz, Faculty, Brooklyn College
290. anna zeemont, Student, Grad Center
291. Ezekiel Finkelstein, Faculty, Lehman College
292. Christopher Mejía, Student, Brooklyn College & School of Labor and Urban Studies
293. Ja Young Jeon, Student, Grad Center
294. Jill Cirasella, Faculty, Grad Center
295. Alexander Schlutz, Faculty, John Jay College & Grad Center
296. Natasha Ochshorn, Student, Grad Center
297. Lynn Zhong, Student, CUNY Law
298. Suzie Quarrell, Faculty, Lehman College
299. Maya Kouassi, Alumna, CUNY Law
300. Ros Petchesky, Emeritus Faculty, Hunter College & Grad Center
301. Sara Pekow, Student, Grad Center
302. Jesse Rice-Evans, Student, Grad Center
303. Sylvia C Korman, Faculty, Lehman College
304. Debarati Biswas, Faculty, Hunter College
305. Jocelyn Wills, Faculty, Brooklyn College
306. Humberto Ballesteros, Faculty, Hostos Community College
307. Nusrath Jahan Nisha, Alumni, Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges
308. Alyx Raz, Student, Grad Center
309. Inma Naima Zanoguera, Student, Grad Center
310. Mary Ann Caws, Faculty Emerita, Grad Center
311. Ozlem Goner, Faculty, College of Staten Island
312. Khaldoun Abou Tay, Student, BMCC
313. Shakila Khan, Student, Hunter College
314. Maria Quinata, Student, Grad Center
315. Bhargav Rani, Student, Grad Center
316. Ayse Akalin, CUNY Alumni
317. Zoe Hu, Student, Grad Center
318. Saadi Ouaaz, Student CUNY, and American Muslim Defense League
319. Brian Pickett, Faculty, Brooklyn College
320. Rebecca Mlynarczyk, Emeritus Faculty, Grad Center
321. Colleen Campbell, Alumna, CUNY Law
322. Angela Dunne, Student, Grad Center
323. blanche wiesen cook, Faculty, John Jay College and Grad Center
324. Emily Price, Student, Grad Center
325. Rashmi Viswanathan, CUNY Alumni
326. Aaron Botwick, Faculty, Hostos Community College
327. Mark-Allan Donaldson, Student, Grad Center
328. Timothy Mahoney, Student, Grad Center
329. Cristine Khan, Student, Grad Center
330. Juno Morrow, Faculty, Hostos Community College
331. Anne Spice, Student, Grad Center
332. Ellen Goldner, Faculty, College of Staten Island
333. Fadi Kafeety, Alumni, Grad Center
334. Madeleine Barnes, Student, Grad Center
335. Colette Gerstmann, Student, Grad Center
336. Liana Kallman, Student, School of labor and urban studies
337. Rafael Ernesto Peña, Student, Lehman College
338. Helene Mbaye, Student, Hunter College
339. Meg Kallman Feeley, Faculty, Kingsborough Community College
340. Sa’dia Rehman, Alumni, City College
341. James Hession, Faculty, College of Staten Island
342. Hala Embabi, CUNY Alumna, Grad Center
343. Alexander Zevin, Faculty, College of Staten Island
344. Erik B. Wallenberg, Student, Graduate Center
345. Dhipinder Walia, Student, Graduate Center
346. Shirley S Li, Student, Graduate Center
347. Isaiah Montoya, Student, BMCC
348. Chris Carpenter, Student, Graduate Center
349. Kirsten Gill, Student, Graduate Center
350. Jacob Collins, Faculty, College of Staten Island
351. Suzie Oppenheimer, Student, Graduate Center
352. Amy Martin, Student, Graduate Center
353. Amber Grof, Student, Graduate Center
354. Lara Saguisag, Faculty, College of Staten Island
355. Alycia Sellie, Faculty, Graduate Center
356. Joshua Mejia, Student, BMCC
357. Sydney Collazo, Student, BMCC
358. Shahrooz Nasir, Alumni, Hunter College
359. Mehrnaz Moghaddam, Student, Grad Center
360. Cylantra K Dees, Student, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
361. Hosu Kim, Faculty, College of Staten Island
362. Andreina Barthly, Student, CUNY
363. patricia Ticiento Clough, Faculty, Queens College and Grad Center
364. Arman Azimi, Student, Grad Center
365. Aisha Munir, Student, Hunter College
366. Yzza Sedrati, Student, Grad Center
367. Inés Vañó García, Student, Grad Center
368. Patricia Alessandrini, Alumna, CUNY
369. Aseel Sawalha, Alumna, Grad Center
370. Asmaa Butt, Alumna, Hunter College
371. Luu, Alumni, CUNY
372. John P Pittman, Faculty, John Jay College
373. Nehal Naser, Alumni, Kingsborough Community College
374. Zamara Choudhary, Alumni, Hunter College
375. Sydney Collazo, Student, BMCC
376. Liora Cohen-Fraade, Alumna, CUNY Law
377. Michael Salcido, Student, Grad Center
378. Katharine C. Beer, Alumna, Hunter College and Palestine Solidarity Alliance
379. Eman Gad, Student
380. Sneha Jayaraj, Student
381. Farzana Ali, Student, CUNY Law
382. Theresa Horvath, Student, Grad Center
383. Patricia Cipollitti, Student, Grad Center
384. Dhruv Gupta, Student, Queens College
385. Laura Tanenbaum, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
386. Marlyn Paulino, Student, Queens College
387. Bilge Yesil, Faculty, College of Staten Island & Grad Center
388. Katherine Caldwell, Student, Grad Center
389. Peter Ranis, Emeritus Faculty, Grad Center
390. Lan Li
391. Dominic Wetzel, Faculty, Kingsborough
392. Andrea Khalil, Faculty, Queens College/Grad Center
393. Stephen Blum, Faculty, Grad Center (retired)
394. Vani Kannan, Faculty, Lehman College
395. Mohamed Aboseria, CUNY Alumni
396. Tajwar Alom, Student, Queens College
397. Faisal Khan, Alumni, City College
398. Jamila Hammami, Alumna, Grad Center
399. Linta Varghese, Faculty, BMCC
400. Kinza Iftikhar, Alumna, John Jay College
401. John Whitlow, Faculty, CUNY Law
402. Ateea Kazi, Alumna, City College
403. Elizabeth Oram, Faculty, Hunter College School of Nursing
404. Rose M. Kim, Faculty, BMCC
405. Andrea Morrell, Faculty, Guttman Community College
406. Kristin Lawler, Alumna, Grad Center
407. Marcus Hyde, Student, CUNY Law
408. Alex Wolf, Faculty, Bronx Community College
409. Zaid Nakadar, Alumni, Brooklyn College
410. Jeannette Graulau, Faculty, Lehman College
411. Shoumik Bhattacharya, Student, Grad Center
412. Elhum Haghighat, Faculty, Lehman College
413. Mary Taylor, Staff, Grad Center, Center for Place, Culture and Politics
414. Jack Hirschman, Alumni, CCNY, Emeritus Poet Laureate of San Francisco
415. Samuel Finesurrey, Faculty, Guttman Community College
416. Stephen Leberstein, Faculty, City College and Center for Worker Education (retired)
417. Jessica Taube, Faculty, Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work
418. Anthony O’Brien, Faculty Emeritus, Queens College
419. Kate Sheese, Student, Grad Center
420. Nebahat Avcioglu, Faculty, Hunter College
421. Talha Ahmad, Alumni, Hunter College
422. Rani Allan, Alumni, Hunter College and Palestine Solidarity Alliance
423. José Miguel Martínez Torrejón, Faculty, Queens College
424. Tyler T. Schmidt, Faculty, Lehman College
425. Jonathan H Shannon, Faculty, Hunter College
426. Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, CUNY Alumna
427. Melissa Horger, Student, Grad Center
428. Lisa Jahn, Student, Grad Center
429. Zeyna Noor, Student, CUNY Law School
430. Sarah Schwartz, Student, Grad Center
431. Melissa Horger, Student, Grad Center
432. Lisa Jahn, Student, Grad Center
433. Zeyna Noor, Student, CUNY Law
434. Sarah Schwartz, Student, Grad Center
435. Anne Hays, Faculty, College of Staten Island
436. Melissa Castillo Planas, Lehman College
437. Donna Lee Granville, Faculty, Brooklyn College
438. Gehad Abdelrehim, Student, CUNY Law
439. Beth Baron, Faculty
440. Oumar Siby, Student, Hunter College
441. Sandra Moyano-Ariza, Student, Grad Center
442. Maxine Krenzel, Student, Grad Center
442. Destry Maria Sibley, Student, Grad Center and Teaching Fellow, City College
443. Tahiya Choudhury, Student, CUNY
444. Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma , Post-Doc, Grad Center
445. Farooq Shirzad , Student, Hunter College
446. Komal Khosla, Student, John Jay College
447. Akram Ishmael, Student, CUNY
448. Bintou Kamara, Student, CUNY
449. Maggie Dickinson, Faculty, Guttman Community College
450. Matthew Chrisler, Student, Grad Center
451. CalvinJohn Smiley, Faculty, Hunter College
452. Thomas Watters, Faculty, Brooklyn College
453. Andréa Stellap, Faculty, City College
454. Ahmed Hassan Faizi, Student, Hunter College
455. Mahmuda Khanom, Student, CUNY
456. Ian Olasov, Faculty, Brooklyn College
457. Omar Dibba, Alumni, Hunter College
458. Jacob Aplaca, Student, Grad Center
459. Izza Nawaz , Student, Hunter College
460. Indie Pranvera, Alumna, City College of New York
461. Miranda Hajduk, Student, Grad Center
462. Jane Holzka, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
463. Jessi mcneill, Student, Grad Center
464. Maham Khan, Student, Hunter College
465. Tess Wolterstorff, Student, Lehman College
466. Gemma Thomas-Ahyase, Alumna, CUNY
467. Rachel Brown, Alumna, Grad Center
468. David Klassen, Faculty, BMCC
469. Lou Cornum, Alumni, Grad Center
470. Sarah Molinari, Student, Grad Center
471. Cindi Katz, Faculty, Grad Center
472. Karen E., Alumna, CUNY
473. Matthew Lau, Faculty, Queensborough Community College
474. Keith Miyake, Alumni, Grad Center
475. Melissa Minnich, Student, School of Labor and Urban Studies
476. Priscilla Bustamante, Student, Grad Center
477. David Kazanjian, Faculty Emeritus, Queens College and Grad Center
478. Carah A. Naseem, Alumna, Hunter College
479. Anthony Dest, Faculty, Lehman College
480. Mitra Rastegar, Alumna, Grad Center
481. Naomi Podber, Student, Grad Center
482. Dialika Sall, Faculty, Lehman College
483. Gemma Sharpe, Alumna, Grad Center
484. Laura E. Rivas, Student, Grad Center
485. Jennifer MacKenzie, Faculty, Lehman College
486. Shza Zaki, Student, City College
487. Bill Friedheim, Emeritus Faculty, BMCC
488. Katherine Hejtmanek, Faculty, Brooklyn College
489. Shza Zaki, Student, City College
490. Max Kirsch, Alumni, CUNY
491. Jarrettia Adams, Alumna, CUNY
492. Varnica Arora, Student, Grad Center
493. Ismael García Colón, Faculty, College of Staten Island
494. Goutam Gajula, Faculty, Brooklyn College
495. Jessie Stein, Student, Grad Center
496. Merle Ratner, Student, School of Labor and Urban Studies
497. John McMahon, Alumni, Grad Center
498. Stephanie Love, Faculty, Brooklyn College
499. Laura Matthews, Faculty, Brooklyn College
500. Lynn Horridge, Faculty, Brooklyn College
501. Esra Padgett, Student, Grad Center
502. James Biles, Faculty, City College and Grad Center
503. Christa Paterline, Faculty, Brooklyn College
504. Tom Angotti, Emeritus Faculty, Hunter College and Grad Center
505. Lala Peñaranda, Staff, CUNY School for Urban and Labor Studies
506. Kazi Tejwar, Student, City College, USG Senator
507. Aiah Abdelmegid, Student, City College
508. Yasmine Awais, Student, Grad Center
509. Aysheh Barqawi, Student, Hunter College
510. Xhuli Agolli, Student, Grad Center
511. Bec Everett, Student, City College
512. Aiah Abdelmegid, Student, City College
513. Patricia Antoniello, Faculty, Brooklyn College
514. Kelsey Swift, Student, Grad Center
515. Oumar Siby, Student, Hunter College
516. Farzana Yasmin Samad, Alumni, Hunter College
517. Caroline K. Hong, Faculty, Queens College
518. Samreen, Student, Baruch College
519. Sham Habteselasse, Student, Grad Center
520. Julia Pressman, Alumni, Silberman School of Social Work
521. Sandra Goldstein Lehnert, Student, Grad Center
522. Nancy Stern, Faculty, City College
523. George De Stefano, Alumni, Hunter College School of Social Work
524. Shuhrat Jahan, Student, Hunter College
525. Preeti Sampat, Alumni
526. Rachel Valinsky, Student, Grad Center
527. Galina Rudik, Alumni
528. Ammara Khan, Student
529. Sarah Benesch, Faculty, College of Staten Island
530. Nandini Bagchee, Faculty, City College
531. Juline Koken, Faculty, LaGuardia Community College
532. Victoria Frye, CUNY School of Medicine
533. Michelle Balon, Alumni, Hunter College
534. Kirsten Cole, Faculty, BMCC
535. Martha D, Alumni
536. Brian Prager, Faculty, BMCC
537. Ali C. Hocek, Faculty, City College
538. Sayem Shah, Student, City College
539. Nicole Bass, Student, City College
540. Hamees Gabr, Student, City College
541. Hajar Alrifai, Student, City College, Chair, Future Architects of the Middle East
542. Krystal Hernandez, Student, City College
543. Helen Kapstein, Faculty, John Jay
544. 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
