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Image from the protest encampment at Emory University in Atlanta, where protesters are demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza and immediate divestment from Israel & “Cop City.” The Emory encampment joins a wave of other university encampments across the U.S., April 25, 2024. (Photo: Emory SCC)

We are occupying Emory University to demand immediate divestment from Israel and Cop City

By Narek Boyajian and Jadelynn Zhang April 25, 2024 23

We are students from universities across Atlanta who are organizing against Cop City and the genocide of Palestinians. We demand total institutional divestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City at all Atlanta colleges and universities.

Students hold a banner that reads "GSU Out of Palestine. End the GILEE contract. Divest from death" at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, November 9, 2023.

Atlanta students rally against police training in Israel, suppression of campus activism

By Anwar Karim November 12, 2023 0

Atlanta activists and students from universities across Atlanta rallied to end the Georgia State University’s GILEE program which trains U.S. law enforcement in Israel, and called for an end to the suppression of student activism on Palestine.

Israeli police officers in Jerusalem on 28 July 2017 (Wikimedia)

Atlanta activists are fighting to end the city’s police exchange program with Israel

By Michael Arria September 25, 2019 5

Atlanta activists are reigniting their fight against the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), a program where law enforcement officials receive training from human rights violators such as Israel.