🚨AN APPEAL ISSUED BY THE PALESTINIAN STUDENT MOVEMENT IN THE GAZA STRIP🚨

To the global student movement to stop the genocidal war:

It is time for revolutionary escalation of the global student intifada for Palestine.

We write this call from our student movement in the Gaza Strip, from the heart of occupied Palestine, from under the brutal Zionist bombing, explosions, and the clutches of the monstrous nightmare of death that lurks around us in every corner, house, and street. We raise it from prison cells, from beneath the destruction, and from inside the rubble, to send it to our fellow students, our comrades,  brothers and sisters, in all the universities, schools and institutes of the world everywhere, and we address the global student movement that was launched in order to stop the genocidal war that is being engineered and financed by the governments of the United States, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and others, this courageous student movement that was born in the universities as an integral part of our struggle, that expresses the conscience of students and peoples who yearn for justice and freedom.

We in the Gaza Strip look at you with pride and honour, as you are a revolutionary fighting vanguard, and a natural and integral part of our Palestinian liberation movement. You have come in a resounding, honest and clear response against the Israeli massacres and those who finance them, confronting the companies of the Zionist war of genocide and ethnic cleansing that have claimed the lives of thousands of Palestinian students of all ages, including hundreds of struggling Palestinian student cadres, wounded and imprisoned, in addition to our great loss in the martyrdom of our professors and teachers, and the destruction of our universities, institutes and schools.

Today, we call on you, from the midst of massacres and siege, to a new revolutionary phase of comprehensive escalation, and to raise the pace and ceiling of your struggle and your honorable stances, quantitatively and qualitatively, against the institutions, corporations, and governments that participate in the slaughter of our children, our students, and our people in Rafah, Jabalia, Khan Younis, and the entire Gaza Strip, and against the settler gangs, armies of Zionist killers, and so on that commit their crimes in camps, cities and villages in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

We call on you to besiege the White House in Washington, and to surround the palaces, headquarters and ministries of Western colonial governments and Zionist embassies, and the buildings and offices of the corporations that finance the Zionist entity and arm its criminal army with all kinds of bombs and means of death and destruction. These criminal colonial symbols represent the forces that support “Israel” to kill us – with your tax money and the money spent at complicit corporations, to destroy our homes, our society, and our future.

Therefore, we call on you to blockade them until the American Zionist aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip stops.
At the same time, we renew our call to the teaching, academic, and union bodies in universities, as well as cultural, academic, and scientific figures, to advocate for and support student movements until they achieve their goals.

Today we turn to high school students all over the world to participate widely in the struggles and activities of the university student movement, organizing demonstrations, sit-ins, and vigils, writing petitions and letters, and organizing educational days about the Palestinian struggle and the goals of the Palestinian people for liberation and return. Secondary schools constitute a strong fortress and a great support for university students everywhere.

Once again, we send special greetings to our brothers and sisters, the students of Palestine in the diaspora, and to our comrades and colleagues in Students for Justice in Palestine, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Palestine Action, and the academic boycott and divestment campaigns, and we salute everyone who participated and participates in student encampments at every university, college and school.

The duty and responsibility of Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine is steadfastness, commitment, resistance, unity, and alignment with the resistance and the people until the U.S. – Zionist aggression stops and the occupation is defeated and removed from our land — all our land, from the river to the sea.

Long live the struggle of Palestine’s students for return and liberation.

Long live international solidarity.

And together we will be victorious!

Secretariat of Palestinian Student Frameworks – Gaza Strip

📍Detroit, Michigan

Several students and community members at the Wayne State University Gaza solidarity encampment were violently arrested this morning in a WSUPD raid. Students have reported that hijabs were removed from some students and there is a possibility of felony charges. The Wayne State cops trained with the IOF in 2019. Solidarity with our steadfast comrades in Detroit, who many of us had the pleasure of meeting and learning from while in town for the People’s Conference for Palestine.

The University of Antwerp in Belgium has officially suspended all cooperation agreements with the Israeli occupation.

"Institutions we partnered with in Israel have institutional collaborations with military officials," Rector Herman Van Goethem said in a statement.

"Therefore, general cooperation agreements have been suspended. Current research projects are being completed but may be subject to additional review by the authorized Ethics Committee," he said.

📍Queensland, Australia

1500 students voted at a student general meeting for the University of Queensland (UQ) to cut ties with weapons companies that supply weapons to Israel, including Boeing. The initial room used for the SGM was too small (only 500 capacity), so the student union expanded to 3 extra lecture rooms. Afterwards, hundreds of students marched to the Chancellors building for impromptu speeches.

Read more: https://redflag.org.au/article/students-at-uq-revolt-in-historic-stand-for-palestine

THERE ARE NO UNIVERSITIES LEFT IN GAZA

Graduates of Hunter College in NYC held up hand painted logos of each of the Gazan universities that have been systematically destroyed by Israel’s genocidal campaign.

📍New York City

Thousands of high school students are walking out of class today to demand an end to the zionist genocide and a liberated Palestine! Join us at Tweed Courthouse at 3PM for a city-wide rally!

📍New York City

Thousands of New York City high school students walked out of class today and rallied outside the headquarters of the Department of Education to demand an end to the Zionist genocide and a liberated Palestine!

🚨ALL OUT TO THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM RIGHT NOW🚨🇵🇸

Activists are de-occupying the museum until they disclose and divest from the US-israeli genocide. All out to stand with Gaza‼️🇵🇸

BREAKING| A new Gaza Solidarity Encampment is being set up right now on the south lawn at Columbia University.

Video credit: @Jib821

📍Columbia University

📍UC Santa Cruz

From @ucscsjp

SCENES FROM THE VIOLENT POLICE RAID CALLED IN BY UCSC ADMINISTRATION LAST NIGHT.

- An estimated 100 or more arrests were made against students, community members, and faculty.

- Bulldozers and trucks were brought out to clear the encampment. Police brutally ripped down Palestinian flags, art, and were even seen crushing body bags with flowers and the names of martyrs on them after uproar to not touch them.

- Students were hit and beaten with batons on their heads, slammed face down into the concrete, trampled over, pushed into, bruised, and more.

- Feminine presenting students reported police aiming at their chests and deliberately targeting them. Racial profiling occurred and racially discriminatory searches happened.

- A student was violently tackled to the ground into the concrete and police put a bag over their head while keeping them on the floor- restricting airflow and later causing the student to throw up and pass out. SHAMEFUL.

🚨🚨 REVOLT FOR RAFAH:

Join Palestinian students, supported by the wider community at Columbia, at a the new Gaza Solidarity Encampment. We are outraged by Columbia’s complicity in the killing of our people in Gaza, and most recently the massacre in Rafah. We are equally outraged by Columbia’s use of brute force and their capitulation to the Billionaire’s lobby, instead of to the “safety of the students”. We will resist, until Columbia divests.

The action will coincide with Columbia’s Alumni Reunion. We want to make it clear to Columbia Alumni to cease donating to Columbia until they meet our demands.

This will be an action of community building and political education. Programming will include teach-ins, film screenings, art builds, open mics and talks with Palestinians in Gaza and Palestine. Food and cold refreshments will be available.

Until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

🚨 FLOOD CORNELL FOR RAFAH 🚨
🗓️ Wednesday, June 5th
🕔 5 PM
📍 Weill Cornell Medicine
🗺️ East 69th Street & York Avenue

Amidst the genocide in Gaza, Cornell refuses to divest from genocide. Weill Cornell, a medical school supposedly dedicated to preserving life is complicit, has watched its Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students be attacked and doxxed while it remains deeply invested in the zionist genocide machine. Cornell Tech is built on a partnership with Technion Institute of israel, literal engineers of their genocide and apartheid.

As the IOF continues its brutal genocide in Gaza, raining 2,000-pound bombs on tents in Rafah and setting fire to markets in Ramallah, FLOOD Weill Cornell for Palestine!

Weill Cornell, your hands are stained with blood! Over 40,000 dead!