The student movement for Palestine is grappling with strategic stagnation. At this pivotal moment, as Israel intensifies its genocide and the West strips rights to free speech, we must reassess our efforts to face these urgent challenges.
Nine students were arrested after Barnard College called police onto campus to break up a sit-in staged by pro-Palestine demonstrators over the recent expulsion of three student protesters.
According to a new report, a total of $12.3 million was spent on “managing” UCLA’s protests around the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment last year. Additionally, there were over 200 arrests, and more than 10 degrees were withheld from students.
Last month Donald Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at canceling the visas of foreign students who advocate for Palestine. Mondoweiss talked to legal experts about its possible impact and the wider attacks on Palestine advocacy in the U.S.
Princeton students are heading to trial over charges from the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment last spring. Despite intimidation from the university, the activists are insisting on defending their right to protest for Palestinian liberation.
As social movements in the U.S. plan ahead for the Trump administration, we should look to the campus Palestine movement for lessons on how to organize under the repressive conditions we will all soon face.
Donald Trump will reportedly sign an executive order to deport non-citizen university students who have participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide.
Four students at the University of Rochester are facing up to seven years in jail for putting up posters around campus accusing a small number of faculty members of enabling the genocide in Gaza.
Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen across the country.
Northwestern University tore down a sukkah I built with other students, supposedly under the guise of fighting antisemitism, because it said “Stop Arming Israel” on it. The school is using Jewish identity as cover for repressing Palestine solidarity.