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All in Encampment Edition
In recent months, Mahmoud Khalil and dozens of other students and graduates in the U.S. were detained and are facing deportation for their belief in human dignity. A state only gets this repressive and totalitarian when it’s on the verge of collapse. As people who stand against genocide take to the streets in defense of Khalil and the Palestinian people, I find myself thinking of Alareer again, who when Israel announced the evacuation orders of Gaza City said, “Fuck you. We are not leaving.”
The U.S. government ramped up its opposition to pro-Palestinian activism on university campuses starting with Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil was a lead negotiator during the 2024 Columbia University “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”, who faced detention and the threat of deportation despite being a legal permanent resident.
As President Donald Trump’s administration continues targeting those protesting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians by Israel, organizers at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) recalled their experiences of campus protests last year.
Attending the funeral of every person killed in Gaza would take three years of non-stop processions. Islamic practices dictate that we must clean and bury the dead without delay to grant them dignity in death. But how can we do that when the majority of our kin are already buried and decomposing under the rubble? Even the civil registry cannot keep up; 50,000 Palestinians are gone, uncounted for and unspoken. And beyond the names, the whole worlds they carried are destroyed. How can we remember what we never had the chance to know?
This Palestine in America Encampment Edition is not just a record of protest. It is a chronicle of memory, of struggle, of defiance. It is a gathering of voices that are often forgotten or misrepresented, of voices that still insist on being heard in a world bent on silencing them. It is also a love letter to Palestine, to the people who risked everything to say her name, and to the kind of journalism that dares to stand beside them.
I was among the 108 students arrested for the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment in April 2024. I was punished—not for the first nor last time—for daring to express solidarity with my people amid their ongoing genocide.
