This year’s Israeli Apartheid Week is taking place in the context of increased repression from the UK government, but students continue to pave the way for a positive, powerful and collective resistance.

German police removed a campus Palestinian advocacy group from a student government meeting after the pro-Palestinian students staged a protest over a bill that prevented students who support BDS from renting rooms at the university.

Orange County School of the Arts shut down a student meeting on Palestine after being contacted by the Anti-Defamation League. Students say the administration won’t acknowledge that it was censorship.

The Israel Fellow for Carnegie Mellon Hillel flew into a rage when two Muslim student leaders refused to endorse a propaganda-filled “fact finding” trip to Israel. They say the fellow’s response serves as a microcosm of Zionist behavior and attitudes.

Despite the challenges of remote learning, campus activism for Palestine charged forward this past year.

Activists in the Apartheid Off Campus student network discuss the state of BDS in the United Kingdom, and organizing in the time of COVID-19.

Last week, Jewish and Palestinian student activists with the group Jewish Voice for Peace were in Iowa to demand that Democratic candidates stop funding Israel’s occupation and embrace Palestinian rights.