The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee has campaigned for decades to bring conversations about justice in Palestine onto Harvard’s campus. The Harvard Crimson’s editorial endorsing BDS was a watershed moment that showed that our approach is working. The recent backlash against The Crimson and PSC has been immense, but it all speaks to the impact of our work.

During graduation ceremonies at Georgetown University, students protested Secretary of State Antony Blinken and demanded accountability for slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

A letter from the Union of Jewish Students condemning newly elected National Union of Students president Shaima Dallali appears to include several falsified signatures, raising questions about the effort to unseat her.

Madeline Albright’s Berkeley commencement speech drew massive protests in May, 2000, but it was University Medalist Fadia Rafeedie’s speech which would win the day.

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.