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People take part in a rally marking the first anniversary of the killing of Palestinian journalist Yousef Abu Hussein by Israeli forces during the May 2021 conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza city on May 19, 2022. An Israeli warplane bombed the top floors of the Gaza City apartment building where Abu Hussein, a reporter and news anchor for the Hamas-affiliated radio station Voice of Al-Aqsa, lived with his family, in May 2021. (Photo: Mahmoud Nasser/APA Images)

May has always been a month marked by tragedy, anger, tension, and revolution for Palestinians since we were expelled from our lands on May 15th, 1948. This year has sadly been no different, as we still struggle the process the events of May a year ago.

Students carry a mock coffin as they hold a symbolic funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, at al-Azhar University in Mughraqa, central Gaza Strip, on May 16, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

The mass outpouring of national unity that followed the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh reflects a historic moment of Palestinian struggle and consciousness. What began last year during the Unity Intifada in reaction to the attacks on Gaza and Sheikh Jarrah has now continued through the Gilboa Prison escape and the martyrdom of Abu Akleh. Palestinian political and civil society leaders must now maintain the momentum of this solidarity that Abu Akleh’s departure has left.

San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney (Photo: San Francisco State University)

SFSU President Lynn Mahoney’s third veto of an independent Faculty Hearing Panel demonstrates the University’s allegiance to and acquiescence of corporatized Big Tech’s increasing control over curriculum content as well as the university’s complicity with Zionist organizations that deliberately seek to stifle all critiques of the apartheid state of Israel.

Even as Israel says it won’t investigate killing of Palestinian-American journalists, US media ignore the story. But journalists are supposed to be like firefighters — if one of you is killed in action the rest of you show up in solidarity and you don’t shut up. Apparently, though, there’s an exception — when the Israeli army (almost certainly) kills your colleague.