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More than 100 students were arrested during the dispersal of the sit-in at Northeastern University in Boston

Hundreds of students have converged at DC’s George Washington University to protest the Israeli-US genocide in Gaza and demand divestment from companies profiteering off Palestinian blood.

Students at Northeastern University in Boston prevented police vans from leaving the premises with arrested students after attempting to dismantle the Gaza solidarity encampment.

At Tahrir Encampment, University of Michigan, Pro-Palestine students wrote Refaat Alareer's poem: If I Must Die.✍️🇵🇸

"Keep going, keep going, they will have to concede if we keep going."

This elderly woman was one of the leaders of the demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968 when she was a student at the prestigious Columbia University.

Today, she returned to the same place 56 years later to say: "Palestine must be free."

Pro-Palestine protests erupt across US campuses

Pro-Palestinian students in the US are demanding their universities call for an immediate ceasefire and cut all ties with companies that enable Israel’s military operations.

So far, fourteen US universities have seen encampments and protests erupt, including,

Columbia

Last week, pro-Palestinian student protesters set up a tent encampment at the Ivy League university in New York.

On Friday afternoon, the protesting students said they had reached an impasse with administrators and intended to continue their encampment until their demands were met, which included Columbia issuing a public statement calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Northeastern University

Massachusetts State Police said about 102 protesters have been arrested and will be charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct after clearing an encampment on the campus on Saturday.

Students at the protest have insisted their event was peaceful and, like many across the country, was aimed at drawing attention to the “genocide” in Gaza and their university’s complicity in the war.

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

University officials extended the campus closure until May 10 after protesters used furniture, tents, chains, and zip ties to block entrances to an academic and administrative building on Monday.

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Palestinian flag at Harvard.

Students at Washington University in St. Louis, the United States, form a human chain to protect their Gaza solidarity encampment.

The student movement at Harvard University raises the Palestinian flag an hour after the Dean of Student Affairs threatened to refer them to a disciplinary council.

Protestors dropped a Palestinian flag out of the window of the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the White House Correspondents' Dinner was being held last night.

Hamline University in Minnesota grant amnesty to the student encampment for Gaza.

The administration also granted the students a meeting with the president and the chair of the board of trustees to hear their demands.

Students at Yale University set up new protest camp

Students protesting Israel’s war on Gaza have pitched a new encampment on Yale University’s campus in the northeastern state of Connecticut.

The move comes a week after Yale police broke up a protest camp at the university and arrested 44 students for trespassing.

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Arrests in New Orleans after activists try to set up protest camp

Police in the US city of New Orleans have arrested 10 people during a pro-Palestine protest in Jackson Square, according to local media.

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Nearly 900 arrested at antiwar protests on US campuses since April 18

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Imprisoned Palestinian writer wins top fiction prize

Palestinian author Basim Khandaqji, who has been imprisoned by Israel since 2004, has been named as the winner of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel A Mask, the Colour of the Sky.

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Yale students restart a campus encampment following dozens of arrests.

Intifada

On college campuses and city streets, the word intifada has become central to pro-Palestinian protests. Signs proclaim “globalize the intifada” and demonstrators often chant “one solution: intifada, revolution” or “long live the intifada” as they march.

Some see this as an open call for violence against Jews — others say it is a peaceful term, calling for a nonviolent uprising against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and blockade on the Gaza Strip.

The dispute comes from the difference between the word’s literal meaning in Arabic and its usage historically, and outside of its Arabic roots.

Intifada is an Arabic word that literally means “shaking off”, and in the Palestinian context, it is understood to mean a civil uprising. The First Palestinian Intifada erupted in Gaza in December 1987, after four Palestinian were killed when an Israeli truck collided with two vans carrying Palestinian workers. Ensuing clashes spread rapidly to the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Intifada was primarily carried out by youth, and was directed by the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising, a coalition of Palestinian political factions committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing Palestinian independence. Israel’s heavy-handed response included closing universities, deporting activists and destroying homes.

Arabic contains many words for revolts or uprisings, each with a different valence — and often understood differently in the West, and when used in English in ways that don’t capture the words’ full meaning.

“The word jihad is really abused in the West. People think when you use the word jihad, right away: holy war,” said Mohammed Sawaie, an Arabic professor at the University of Virginia. “The sense of the word really means: struggle.”

Intifada connotes an uprising against an oppressor. But that’s a relatively new meaning for the word, which comes from a verb root meaning “to shake off” or “dust off.” It only acquired its revolutionary implications during the Iraqi Intifada in 1952, a series of strikes and riots protesting the monarchy at the time. It is also used to talk about the Arab Spring, and other revolts against oppressive regimes.

But for many people today, the word intifada is inextricably tied to the First and Second Intifadas, Palestinian uprisings in the 1980s and early 2000s. For most Palestinians, the word brings up memories of the First Intifada, a largely non-violent Palestinian protest largely involving work stoppages, boycotts and demonstrations against Zionist occupation and brutally.

The word intifada different people understand and use it differently, as is the case with so many words and symbols and, well, the entire narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israelis’ celebration of independence, Yom HaAtzmaut, is a day of national grief for Palestinians mourning the Nakba.

The Intifada also prompted the international community to search for a solution to the conflict. The Intifada ended with the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Israel’s suppression of the Intifada left 1,500 Palestinian dead and tens of thousands injured.

The Second, or “Al-Aqsa”, Intifada began on Sep 28, 2000, when Likud opp leader Ariel Sharon made a provocative visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque with thousands of security forces deployed in and around the Old City of Jerusalem. Clashes between Palestinian protestors and Israeli forces left five Palestinians dead and a further 200 injured during the first two days. The incident sparked a widespread armed uprising in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. During the Al-Aqsa Intifada Israel caused unprecedented damage to the Palestinian economy and infrastructure. Israel reoccupied areas governed by the Palestinian Authority and began construction of its separation wall. By the end of 2008, the Palestinian death toll had reached almost 5,000, with over 50,000 injured.

Intifada is an Arabic word that literally means “shaking off”. A Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation.

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CUT OFF CAMPUS WIFI AND WATER SUPPLY TO STUDENTS PROTESTING

Texas Troopers Violently Arresting Pro-humanity Students At University Of Texas

Students in Austin Are Being Hit With Pepper Spray as They Are Attacked by Police.

Imagine Mainstream Media Headlines if His Was Happening in Iran.

Never Should America Lecture Any Country About Democracy. It Has Descended Into Fascism

Our new generation: the generation of liberation!✌🏻🍉