All in Palestine in America
Students at the University of Illinois at Chicago in coordination with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UIC, UIC’s Muslim Student Association, and American Muslims for Palestine will host the Bike for the Middle East fundraiser on May 9.
Baddawi, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Palestinian-American, Leila Abdelrazaq, will transcend generations.
The Student Government of Loyola Chicago (SGLC) passed divestment for a third time in two years but this time the SGLC President signed and endorsed the resolution on March 31.
Divestment is a term that has been attracting an immense amount of attention on campuses across the nation and now Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Marquette University in Wisconsin has joined the movement.
Rasmea Odeh can be described in a flurry of positive and flattering adjectives. There isn’t a truthful soul on this planet that can deny that Odeh approaches life with love; To many across the country she is a hero, and an icon. There is not a terrorizing bone in her body and there clearly never has been.
As a Palestine solidarity organizer, I’m not in the habit of supporting political candidates from either major party.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) has been the target of harassment and racism in the wake of two major protests, carried out as part of its annual Israeli Apartheid Week activities raising awareness on campus about the plight of Palestinians.
In the coming weeks, Loyola University Chicago’s undergraduate student senate will vote on a resolution that urges the university to remove its investments from corporations involved in human rights violations. Specifically, these corporations profit from and directly contribute to human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Fair Business Practice Committee (FBPC) at DePaul University will take steps to make sure its investments are “responsible”, after DePaul Divest coalition successfully passed a divestment referendum through the university’s Student Government Association elections last spring.
We are Palestinian undergraduate students at Northwestern University. We may be few in number, but solidarity from our sisters and brothers in other communities has given us strength and, ultimately, a victory, in the form of the passage of a divestment resolution on on Feb. 18th.
Posters depicting Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) members as “Jew Haters” have been spotted at several universities across the country. Palestine in American has confirmed that the posters were seen at DePaul University, Drake University and University of California, Los Angeles, as of press time.
Last month, a diverse coalition of alumni, community members, and students at Ohio State University officially launched their divestment campaign. OSU Divest calls on the university to divest from corporations that enable, and profit from, human rights violations.
Deah Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, three young Muslim-Americans who were passionate about humanitarian work were shot execution style in the head.
Students for Justice in Palestine’s Chicago Network hosted a fundraiser “Celebrating somoud” at DePaul University to honor Rasmea Odeh’s steadfastness and resilience, on Feb. 3. All ticket sales and donations went to Rasmea’s Defense Committee. Odeh is a 67-year-old Palestinian community organizer in the Chicagoland area.
On Thursday night, the University of California at Davis joined the growing list of UC campuses that have passed resolutions calling for divestment from corporations profiting from the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
When you first walk into Marquette University’s Alumni Memorial Union, the first thing you notice is the diverse collection of the world’s flags hanging above. The flags’ purpose is to bring together and unify the spirits of the students, staff and faculty on the university’s campus. It did not take long for Marquette’s Palestinian students to notice that the Palestinian flag was missing.
CHICAGO, IL — Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Chicago Network is hosting a fundraiser to celebrate the resilience of Rasmea Odeh this Tuesday, February 3rd at 8:00 pm at DePaul University.
Last week students at Northwestern University launched NU Divest, a grassroots student campaign demanding that Northwestern divest its holdings in corporations that profit from human rights abuses against Palestinians.
47 years ago, MLK marched along thousands of socially conscience individuals from Selma to Montgomery. This moment marked a turning point in the civil rights movement, and stands as testimony to the perseverance of MLK and the group of troublemakers walking in his shadow.
In a surprise move Sunday night, student activists at DePaul University announced that they are re-launching their DePaul Divest campaign to pressure the university administration to pull its investments from corporations that profit off of Israel’s human rights violations in Palestine, respecting last year’s majority student vote. Corporations include Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Veolia, Caterpillar, and others.
