Columbia University President Minouche Shafik steps down from her role months after inviting police surveillance into campus, arresting and harming students, and receiving a vote of no confidence from faculty.

Dr. Katrina Armstrong, the CEO of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, will be stepping in as interim president, the school announced.

With or without Minouche and her collaborators, the Columbia students will continue fighting for divestment 🇵🇸👩🏻‍🎓

📍Columbia University

HAPPENING NOW: Barnard College is allowing the NYPD to arrest its students for protesting outside of the gates in solidarity with students facing disciplinary charges. Shame on Barnard! Shame on Columbia!

📍 Downtown Manhattan

HAPPENING NOW: Protestors from Writers Against the War on Gaza and others are picketing outside the personal home of New York Times editor Joe Kahn, who is responsible for the newspaper’s fraudulent and racist coverage of Palestine and the ongoing genocide. Police have now arrived but we are undeterred. BOYCOTT, DIVEST, UNSUBSCRIBE

A day after Columbia SJP’s account was disabled, Meta has suspended our Instagram account. Meta has blood on its hands.

Follow us here and on our backup IG linked in this post:

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📍University of Michigan

Multiple arrests were made at the University of Michigan during a pro-Palestine demonstration at The Diag. Solidarity with our comrades facing immediate repression on their first days back to campus. Free Palestine.

🚨🇵🇸National March starting now at Union Square!! Updates/info will be posted twitter/X and on telegram t.me/wolprotest

💥 PICKET LINE MEANS: DON'T CROSS! 💥
JOIN THE PICKET LINE FOR PALESTINE — DON’T CROSS THE PICKET LINE. CALL OUT SICK. DO NOT ENTER CAMPUS. DO NOT GO TO CLASSES. DO NOT HOLD CLASS.

Join us now at the 116th and Broadway gates to shut down Columbia University's first day of class for Palestine! Follow @cuapartheiddivest for updates! 


Make sure to come with friends, dress comfortably, wear a mask, and conceal any identifiable features. Bring noisemakers!


Read CUAD's full statement, learn more about how to stay secure while you protest, and find the SICK OUT email template at cuapartheiddivest.substack.com

#Picket4Palestine

🇵🇸BACK 2 SCHOOL DISPATCH🇵🇸

This week, university students all over the world return to campus knowing that the semester will not commence in Gaza. Some have put the escalations of the Spring semester behind them, but many have returned with even more courage and conviction. Meanwhile, complicit university administrations have spent the summer strategizing on how best to suppress student activism.

University bureaucrats recently “declared an indefinite state of emergency on college campuses,” hired outside consultants, banned encampments on the college green, doled out harsh disciplinary and legal action against anyone involved in the student intifada, and enshrined Zionists as a protected class. Carrie Zaremba observes that “many of these policies being instituted share a common formula: more militarization, more law enforcement, more criminalization, and more consolidation of institutional power.”

We know, by now, how this goes. It will only make us stronger. As you read this, students, faculty, grad workers, and outside agitators picket outside of Columbia’s gates; classes are canceled, classrooms empty; disorientation zines at Harvard, Penn, and NYU are handed out to new students. We are reminded of the support which the Palestinian resistance lent to our movement last Spring, encouraging us to embrace the “unity of fields” that has shaped their struggle throughout Palestine.

So, what is to be done?

New students: join the organizations and collectives on your campus that are fighting for liberation (such as Students for Justice in Palestine) or form your own. Connect with other universities, colleges, and schools in your area so you can support each other. Graduates: stay close to your community, and use your experience to guide others along the way (secrets and tips are welcome).

Faculty and staff, organize your workplace so that you can respond to administrative repression. Have you read this yet? Unionized graduate workers: encourage your union to pursue a divestment policy or make a statement in solidarity with Palestine. Alumni: withhold your donations and redirect them to anti-imperialist cultural organizations or direct/mutual aid for Palestinians instead.

Remember, every classroom is an opportunity to educate and agitate. Every Zionist event organized on campus is waiting to be replaced with a popular university teach-in. And every building, lawn, and open space… we already know what can be done.

For Gaza, for Palestine, for Liberation. Welcome back, students!

New York City: PACK THE COURTS FOR 8 OF THE CUNY 28 on THURS, SEPT 5
🔻 Press Conference at 1 PM at Columbus Park Pavilion. This will be the first public statement made by the 28.
🔻 Pack the Courts at 2 PM on 100 Centre St, NY 10013

PACK THE COURTS FOR 8 OF THE CUNY 28

at 100 CENTRE STREET NEW YORK 10013. On 4/30, hundreds across the city were arrested at protests and Gaza solidarity encampments. While the charges have been dropped for most, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, CUNY, and the NYPD continue to pursue the heaviest charges for 8 of the now CUNY 28. In addition to the previously known 22, there were 6 additional comrades arrested that same night also facing felony charges. We've since connected with the 6 other comrades who were brutalized and arrested that night at CCNY, but who were isolated by the bureaucracy of the carceral machine and are also facing heavy and unjust charges.

TELL CUNY TO MEET THE 5 DEMANDS. DROP THE CHARGES FOR ALL OF THE CUNY 28. FREE PALESTINE.

Prepare for Heavy Zionist Presence: Wear a Mask. Come with Trusted People. Have a Safety Plan

From the WAWOG Newsletter:

To be in struggle against scholasticide — that is to say, to organize for the fall of the occupation — means refusing to normalize institutionalized intellectual activity that funds genocide. University investments in weapons manufacturers that supply jets, guns, bulldozers to ‘Israeli’ forces have aided the wholesale destruction of the education system in Gaza. Perhaps the most effective and truthful learning in the imperial core does not happen in classrooms at all, but in schools of our own making: on quads, in tents, on porches, on organizing calls, in Signal messages. Another pedagogy is here and yet another pedagogy is ever still on the horizon.

Just a few months ago, transforming the grounds of the elite university into what Walter Rodney called “groundings,” student-led encampments sharpened the reality that education in the imperial core is not an unequivocal social and public good. The organizers in the encampments, by screaming “free Palestine” and insisting on that scream’s place in their learning, also disrupted the hegemony of the capitalist university. Dependent on domination and discipline, the statist university is a frothing establishment that hoards knowledge, preys on debtors, harms the most vulnerable, and weaponizes the myth of upward mobility.

This “protected class” of Zionists have supported the decimation of Gaza’s 12 universities. Displaced Palestinians are now sheltering in their remains. School is out in the West Bank since the ‘Israeli’ military invaded last week, declaring the occupied region a war zone. At Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, over 141 students were arrested by ‘Israel’ last academic year. “The Israeli occupation uses education as a weapon against Palestinian students,” explains Sundos Hammad, coordinator of Birzeit’s Right to Education Campaign. Interrogators, said Hammad, told detained students: “You will not continue your education. You will have no future.”

‘Israeli’ attacks on the infrastructure of Palestinian study and history manifest one of Zionism’s central aims: the demolishment of the past. By bombing Palestinian universities and libraries; by ravaging the storehouses of knowledge; by razing the archives, the Zionists endeavor to starve the future. They will fail. As we often hear, and repeat, the future belongs to Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. No quantity of U.S.-funded bombs detonated on Palestinian soil can stop the people of the land from cataloging their present; from keeping the stories of their past alive. Indeed, there is life outside the archive. There is life in Palestine.

CUNY 22 press conference before their court appearance today in Manhattan: “We are all outside agitators whether we are fighting in Atlanta, New York, Sudan or Palestine — the enemy remains the same. The zionist entity escalates & so does the Palestinian resistance. The pigs & their institutions escalate, so do the agitators of the world.” Repost on Twitter and Instagram

📍 Georgia Tech, Atlanta

GT divested before, we’ll do it again.

📍University of Toronto

Zionists, including members of the terror group Jewish Defense League, the org founded by the racist Meir Kahane, have begun patrolling the University of Toronto campus in an attempt to intimidate and harass anti-Zionist students.

More on X from Samira Mohyeddin: https://x.com/smohyeddin/status/1832212553352577348?s=46