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All in student activism
University of California Berkeley reinstated a student-led course on Palestine less than a week after its suspension. Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science, Carla Hesse rescinded the suspension of the class in a statement written on September 19.
The University of California Irvine (UCI) concluded its investigation of UCI’s Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) participation in a campus protest last May.
While repression of student activism is certainly not a new phenomenon, in recent years the targeting of students engaged in pro-Palestine work on campus has steadily increased.
The crackdown on pro-Palestine activism in the United States has reached a fever pitch. Early last month, New York Governor Cuomo signed an executive order calling for the creation of a blacklist of institutions and individuals that support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, and the denial of state funding to organizations that have participated in and/or support BDS activity.
The activists took to the library with posters displaying important queries, key facts, and captioned photographs, that embodied precisely what the university and the Israeli embassy wished to conceal—Israel’s expansionist, exclusivist, male-dominant, white-supremacist, anti-Indigenous, settler-colonial face indiscriminately erasing all things Palestinian.
The University of Indianapolis (UINDY) Student Senate passed a divestment resolution on April 2 with 49 votes for, 12 against, and 11 abstentions.
The University of Minnesota (UMN) divestment coalition, initiated by the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), celebrated the success of the resolution, which passed on April 13.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) midwest regional conference attendees were shocked to find Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis’ (IUPUI) outside walls and windows covered with defamatory flyers targeting SJP member Haneen* the morning of April 3rd.
After two weeks of campaigning at the University of Chicago, UofC Divest was able to garner enough votes from the College Council to pass its resolution.
Late last month, the University of California (UC) Board of Regents adopted a revised “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance.”
The OSU Divest resolution—backed by 23 other student organizations—was discussed and voted down by the Ohio State University Undergraduate Student Government (USG), on March 23.
For the second year in a row, Students for Justice (SJP) at Northeastern University in Boston has been blocked by the Student Government Association from placing its divestment referendum on the ballot for a vote.
A number of Boston University students released four demands last Friday protesting their removal from a BU Hillel event in January, which had been advertised as a public event for students.
The University Student Government at Ohio State University tabled OSU Divest’s resolution, despite student leaders speaking in favor of the resolution and a big showing of support from organizations on campus, according to a OSU Divest press release.
Solidarity has formed at Northwestern University between Unshackle NU and NU Divest as both are sponsoring resolutions calling for Northwestern University to remove its investments in the world’s largest private security company, Group 4 Securicor (G4S).
The UMN Divest resolution was scheduled to be voted on by the Minnesota Student Association earlier this week, but before the resolution even hit the senate floor, a senator motioned to strike both resolutions from the agenda.
The divestment resolution, which was presented to the University of Minnesota Student Association (MSA) last week, will be voted on tonight.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at University of Minnesota, along with 30 other student organizations have launched a divestment campaign in support of the international call made by Palestine civil society to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian human rights.
The Milbank Tweed Student Conference Fund was created by Milbank Tweed LLC for student organizations at Harvard Law School (HLS) to use for events.
Monday evening, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Undergraduate Student Government (USG) passed a divestment resolution unanimously.
