📍NYU

Palestine was the word of the day at the NYU GSAS graduation today. Dozens of students and faculty in keffiyehs, multiple students displayed flags and signs on stage, and the entire room chanted “free, free Palestine” at the end of the hooding ceremony!

📍Bard College

Students have taken over the administrative building (Ludlow Hall) at Bard in honor of Shaima Refaat Alareer, renaming it Shaima’s Hall.

The students will remain in Shaima’s Hall until the administration commits in writing to abiding by ethical investment guidelines and meeting the students demands.

HUDSON VALLEY, ALL OUT TO SHAIMA'S HALL‼️

📍The New School

The students and faculty of The New School have for fully occupied all 7 floors of the Lama Jamous Center (72 5th avenue) for four days, sitting atop one of main arteries of capitalism in America, the most expensive and high end shopping street in New York City.

The building, normally used as the nexus of administration for the school, is completely under control of New School faculty and students, with them determining who is allowed access.

Tonight, the encampment, the last in NYC, prepares for a possible sweep tomorrow morning as graduation ceremonies are completed and the semester is at an end.

📍Ghent University

Belgian students pressure Ghent University to cut ties with Israeli universities following weeks of protests! Ghent will cut ties with multiple research centers that support Israeli Occupation Forces.

🚨 BREAKING - FLOOD UPENN FOR PALESTINE! Moments ago Refaat Alareer Hall was liberated by our students and community members at the University of Pennsylvania in what was formerly Fisher Bennett Hall. 

📍 Pull up to 34th and Walnut St immediately, and bring flags, pots, pans, noise makers, megaphones, and anything else you have to contribute to our collective safety!

We must flood Penn to defend the Hall and the liberators who have successfully taken control of the building. We have a duty to our people in Palestine to defend this liberated space, as the liberators of the hall have escalated in a moment of immense repression and aggression by the UPenn Administration and the PPD against the Palestinian liberation movement in our city. 

Mere days ago, the UPenn administration sicced over 300 riot cops on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Penn which led to the brutalization of our people in the encampment. This cannot stand. We must stand together in defense of Refaat Alareer Hall, because we know the only people who will ever keep us safe, is us. The student intifada has become a people's intifada and we must show up in honor of the martyrs - from Turtle Island to Palestine.

The demands of our movement remain clear: an end to the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and an end to the complicity of all Zionist institutions in the US including the University of Pennsylvania. We, the people, will defend Refaat Alareer Hall and ensure that it remains liberated until Penn divests from the Israeli war machine.

Last night, a dozen people were arrested in a violent raid on Hind’s House led by California Highway Patrol, the UCPD, and Berkeley Police Department.

Their bail has been set at $120,000 per person. Support their bail fund and share widely: rally.org/ARCBAILFUND

Communique from the Liberated Casbah of Basel Al-Araj

🗣️From The New School faculty solidarity encampment:

Around midnight on Saturday, May 18th, The New School Security dismantled and swept the Refaat Alareer Faculty Student Solidarity Encampment at the University Center at 63 West 5th Avenue. New School security workers locked all entrances while the school’s maintenance team removed all tents, posters, supplies, and other encampment components from the space. Community members are now without essential items, which were removed without prior notice or consent. No arrests were made and the NYPD was not involved in the raid. Our de-occupation of the Lama Jamous Center prevails. We demand an immediate vote on divestment. We will not leave until this happens.

📍Bucharest, Romania

Students in Romania rallying in solidarity with Palestine, calling for an end to the country’s complicity with zionist apartheid, occupation and genocide. Solidarity to our Romanian comrades holding it down! Free Palestine!

📍Harvard University

From Harvard PSC: “Harvard has violated its agreement with student protestors. This betrayal will prevent 12 students from graduating and place 28 on probation or suspension.

If the board won't follow these precedents, they are failing to live up to Garber's promise. If Harvard won't live up to their promises, we see no reason to live up to ours.”

University administrators are liars beholden to the war industry, zionist donors and the prerogatives of racial capitalism. Fuck ‘em.