University of California, San Francisco medical professionals, workers, and students throughout the UC system are convening the UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine to charge UC leadership with complicity in genocide and the ongoing Nakba.
Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education.
We as UCSD graduate students are outraged at the university’s double standards as it violently cracks down on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment while inviting a Zionist archeologist complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The aftermath of the violence at UCLA illustrates that we live in an upside-down world where we decry property damage on college campuses as we fund the genocide in Gaza, and where we advocate for free speech until it says “stop the genocide.”
Emails from administrators at the University of California, Santa Cruz show the bureaucratic ways U.S. universities suppress discussion on Palestine.
The affinity between the West and Israel is due in part to an affinity with white settler life. Our task, in face of the ongoing Israeli onslaught in Gaza and the ongoing white settler attachment to it, is to struggle against this social order.