On April 17, the one-year anniversary of the Columbia University Gaza encampment, academic workers, students, and activists are calling for a coordinated national direct action to protest the ongoing genocide and escalating repression in the U.S.
Donald Trump will reportedly sign an executive order to deport non-citizen university students who have participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide.
“Despite the McCarthyite environment, the new anti-speech policies, the attempts to throw the book at students for minor violations of such policies, the student movement is still going strong,” says Palestine Legal attorney Radhika Sainath.
Students are returning to campus and schools are preparing to crack down on Palestine protests.
Columbia President Nemat Shafik suspends three deans over text messages, and Biden resumes sending 500lb bombs to Israel.
Summer is upon us, but the push to punish pro-Palestine students has not slowed down.
The Israel lobby is set to make an example of Jamaal Bowman. Even if they’re barely talking about Israel as they do it.
Anti-Palestinian racism is the dominant form of bigotry on the Gaza issue. It determines our policy. All mainstream discussions are tainted by an unconscious assumption that Jewish feelings in the US matter more than Palestinian feelings and for that matter, Jewish feelings matter more than Palestinian lives.