A People’s Hearing for a Liberated Palestine & A People’ CUNY! Join us tomorrow at 4:30 pm.
We demand the BOT:
✴️ Disclose & Divest
✴️ Affirm the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment’s 5 Demands
✴️ Drop the charges against our comrades
✴️ Halt the militarization of our campuses!
At today’s rally on Brooklyn College campus led by the students in their SJP chapter, Inna Vernikov showed up showcasing a gun to Palestinian students and their allies.
These are the tactics of force and intimidation used by zionist groups to silence any support for Palestine.
Are you a CUNY student looking for a way to spend your spring break? Look no further than New York City’s largest, most luxurious, private landowner, Columbia University— stealing land since 1754!
CUNY for Palestine joins Hunter’s Palestine Solidarity Alliance in calling on the Hunter administration to immediately terminate the employment of Adjunct Professor Tamy Ben-Tor for her Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian and anti-Indigenous racism.
Email:
We condemn CUNY’s attack on academic freedom & the retaliatory firings of professors Danny Shaw
@profdannyshaw
& Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. We demand that they be immediately rehired. Sign & share now to protest this injustice! A🧵
#AnAttackonOneisanAttackonAll
🚨BREAKING NEWS
CUNY students, workers, & other NYC community members, DISRUPT a Board of Trustees meeting & make sure that they know that the CUNY community stands with Fatima & the fight for Palestinian liberation.
Press Release:
#WeStandWithFatima
🚨🚨 URGENT ALERT 🚨🚨
🔊RUSH TO CCNY CAMPUS ASAP
Students and workers from CUNY are requesting support and back up for an encampment at CCNY *RIGHT NOW*, just days after the 55th anniversary of the FIVE DEMANDS occupation of CCNY in 1969.
Follow here:
WE WILL NOT REST
Columbia University and CUNY Palestine Organizers to brief press on University-sanctioned police brutality and demands
Press conference: 6pm
Rally: 7
Wed 5/1, CCNY gates - 139 & Amsterdam
At today’s sit in for palestine, Hillary Clinton was shamed out of the SIPA building. She teaches a class at Columbia University and has refused to let students ask her questions about Palestine.
Brave Hunter College students taking on the administration to demand an end to the demonization of those organizing in solidarity with Palestine and ask what
@HunterPresident
doing to protect Palestinian, Arab, Muslim students on campus & faculty from retaliation?
From CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment Telegram:
BREAKING: CUNY FACULTY BLOCK NYPD AT CAMPUS ENTRANCE: "TO GET TO OUR STUDENTS, YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH US"
MORE BODIES NEEDED ASAP.
More updates:
Thank you for taking this principled and courageous position, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe! We are so proud to have you as a professor at CUNY!
#BoycottColumbia
I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence
#ColumbiaUniversity
which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..
🚨🚨 SPECIAL ADVISORY: An invasive species of wild hogs have been spotted herding nearby the gates of Columbia. They’re known to be VERY aggressive and will attack without cause— be sure not to get too close!
The violent oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian people is not a “conflict”; it is settler colonialism and apartheid. The CUNY community stands in solidarity with Palestine liberation!
#zionismoutofCUNY
!
📣📣BREAKING: Students & workers across 8 CUNY campuses—Brooklyn College, Hunter College, CUNY Law, CUNY GGC , City College of New York, John Jay College, Queens College, & BMCC—are sitting in & walking out to demand CUNY divest from Israeli apartheid and genocide now!!
A🧵
Today CUNY students and workers staged a die-in and flooded the windows of the iconic 5th avenue building with signs of solidarity, at the same time as huge banners were dropped from the 6th story windows. 🧵with videos.
Read the demands here:
WITH A UNANIMOUS VOTE OF 15-0-0, UC RIVERSIDE HAS OFFICIALLY PASSED BDS AND DIVESTED OVER $1 MILLION OF STUDENT FUNDS FROM THE ISRAELI APARTHEID REGIME
THANKS TO THE WORK OF UCR SJP AND OTHER SJP CHAPTERS ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND, THE STUDENT MOVEMENT GROWS STRONGER EACH DAY ❤️🔥
We denounce the NYPD repression of today’s march against genocide in Gaza led by
@WOLPalestine
& arrest of its organizers- incl
@NerdeenKiswani
- C4P member & tireless organizer for Palestine liberation. We reject escalation of violence against & attempts to silence our movement
NOW: Police have arrested multiple organizers, including Nerdeen Kiswani, for using a speaker
Protestors have surrounded the van police loaded the organizers into in an effort to prevent them from being transported
CUNY SJPs out in force at
@JohnJayCollege
to demand an end to CUNY’s complicity in zionist settler colonialism & to remind the
@ChancellorCUNY
, Karol Mason & other admin that CUNY stands with
#FreePalestine
from the river to the sea!
CUNY, CUNY can’t you see, we are all SJP!!
CUNY4Palestine rejects the climate of escalating intellectual censorship & McCarthyism, whose most recent iteration is the malicious targeting of Prof Mohamed Abdou (
@minuetinGmajor
), Arcapita Visiting Prof in Modern Arab Studies at
@Columbia
& recent C4P Teach-in Series guest.
Day 2 of the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment 🧵
Today was day 2 of our encampment and the first meeting with CUNY administration regarding our demands, which were sent yesterday, minutes after establishing our encampment at CCNY.
BREAKING: Zionist NYC Council Member Inna Vernikov showed up with a gun to the Brooklyn College rally in solidarity with Palestine today organized by BC SJP to intimidate and threaten pro-Palestinian students on campus, sparking calls for her resignation.
@Cuny4P
#FreePalestine
Today, Within our Lifetime (
@WOLPalestine
) and CUNY for Palestine unveil a video in coalition with 34 legal scholars, distinguished professors, organizers and artists, alongside CUNY students and workers in defense of CUNY Law class-elected speaker Fatima.
#WeStandWithFatima
This week, you can take a tour with CUNY’s local expert tour-guides and visit the beautiful stretch of property, occupying a whopping 36 acres of space in Harlem! Speak with Columbia students who are leading teach-ins, cultural exchanges, and spreading awareness…
Sign and share this urgent call to all university students, faculty, and staff of conscience across the country to pledge to stand together to defend our right to speak out against genocide, settler colonialism and Palestine Liberation! We will not be silenced!
#FreePalestine
Over 100 orgs have signed the solidarity pledge! As students & workers around the country & globe respond to Palestinian calls to keep up the pressure & stand in solidarity with Palestine Liberation, we must strengthen our community defense mechanisms!
…
Sign and share this urgent call to all university students, faculty, and staff of conscience across the country to pledge to stand together to defend our right to speak out against genocide, settler colonialism and Palestine Liberation! We will not be silenced!
#FreePalestine
CUNY: All out for Gaza!
No back to school as normal at CUNY as long as the genocide & systematic targeting of universities, educators & students in Gaza continues! Stand in solidarity as we honor the living & honor our martyrs.
Rally on every campus first day back!
The CUNY Chancellor and Board of Trustees have been complicit in right-wing violence for far too long, leaving CUNY members open to their vicious attacks.
Yesterday, we disrupted their meeting to demand accountability.
Press Release:
#WeStandWithFatima
📣📣 New York City workers! Join our picket tomorrow in solidarity with the CUNY Solidarity Encampment!
⏱️ 2pm
📍CCNY
Palestinian liberation is a labor issue! Support our students!
TODAY (12.11.23) – CUNY students and workers answered the call for a general strike and disrupted a CUNY Board of Trustees meeting. The students & workers of CUNY call upon the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees to DIVEST from weapons manufacturers & Israeli companies. 🧵 1/3
Shame on you
@RutgersU
for repressing student organizers for standing on the side of justice! Rutgers, Rutgers can’t you see, we are all SJP!
#AnAttackonOneIsAnAttackOnAll
Rutgers University has suspended Students for Justice in Palestine for disruptive/disorderly conduct and for failing to comply directives of university officials.
The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, & Crimes Against Humanity & CUNY’s new Anti-Hate Initiative today launch a new series: "Complicated Conversations: Race & the Question of Palestine."
Read 🧵to understand why this is harmful to Palestine solidarity organizing.
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Columbia University students have occupied a campus building, Hamilton Hall, the site of the historic 1968 occupation. The movement for Palestine stands strong!
Rest in power Aaron Bushnell. You gave your life in a fierce act of radical solidarity & political protest against US and Israeli genocide. From the heart of the empire, your final act demonstrated that zionist-imperialist lies are losing power.
A 🧵
CUNY students and workers out in force to stand with Columbia students as they remain steadfast in their Gaza Solidarity Encampment (now on south field west after the NYPD raided south field east)!
#BDSNow
#zionismOffOurCampuses
clearly
@CUNY
@Hunter_College
‘s administration and hiring departments are run by racists because this woman was willingly staffed at CUNY despite this 11 year old video being part of her public portfolio. a lot of her work involves racist caricatures and tropes…
This Thursday at 3pm! ! Join the CUNY wide rally for
#FreePalestine
!
We demand that the CUNY administration end its complicity in Israeli settler colonial genocide and stand with CUNY students and workers in solidarity with Palestine!
Hunter students demand the administration protect them from racist harassment and end the university’s material complicity with settler colonialism here and in Palestine!
Sign and share widely!
CUNY comrades! Join the CUNY-wide walkout + rallies today! No school as usual during a genocide. Not another nickel. Not another dime. NONE of our tuition for Israel’s crimes!
#BDS
now!
⏰ 3:30 pm
We won’t let the CUNY Board of Trustees eclipse our demands!
Hunter College student Sara Abdulaziz: “We are here to show people that we are taking back CUNY. We are here to take it back for Palestine, we are here to take it back for students.”
Speaking out about the injustices of settler colonialism, racism and imperialism is not hate speech! A People’s CUNY is one that stands on the side of the oppressed- not the oppressors!
#WeStandwithFatima
#WeStandWithNerdeen
We reject the fascist NYPD’s targeting of
@NerdeenKiswani
! Not only did the police violently arrest her and pull off her hijab, but they then committed a double violence by lying about it!
NYPD, KKK, IOF they’re all the same!
The video the NYPD posted to claim I lied about my hijab is not footage of the arrest, which was violent and humiliating.
I was cuffed and yanked off of the ground with my hijab off and wasn’t allowed to fix it before being forced up. Multiple male officers put hands on me.
Shame on you
@Columbia
administration! Haven’t you learned your lessons from the repression of student anti-war & anti-racist protests in the 60s? You were on the wrong side of history then, & you’re on the wrong side of history now. These students should be praised not punished!
PRESS RELEASE: Last night, Columbia University suspended six students, including a Palestinian student & two jewish students with NO due process as part of an investigation into a campus event about Palestine. These students were evicted & given 24 hours to leave their homes.
🚨FACULTY AT THE NEW SCHOOL HAVE SET UP THE REFAAT ALAREER SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT🚨
AFTER THE BRUTAL ARREST OF OVER 40 TNS STUDENTS, THE FIRST FACULTY ENCAMPMENT ON TURTLE ISLAND HAS BEGUN ‼️
ALL OUT TO TNS (63 5TH AVENUE)
DISCLOSE, DIVEST, WE WILL NOT STOP WE WILL NOT REST 🇵🇸
“Say it loud and say it clear, we don’t want no zionists here!”
“What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! If we don’t get it, shut it down!”
Flood Manhattan For Rafah: EMERGENCY ACTION in Union Square happening now!
#StopTheGenocide
#FreePalestine
“The protest called out organizations such as Hillel International and ADL, which play an active role in the brutal colonization of Palestine, the predatory indoctrination of Jewish youths into Zionism, and the extreme distortion of Jewish values.”
🔗🗞️:
🧵✍️🗞️Press Release:
On Feb 28th, Jewish student groups from across NYC joined together on Hunter campus, calling other Jewish students, alumni, and academic workers to join them in standing in solidarity with Palestine…
CUNY comrades! Tell CUNY Admin: Drop the Charges, Meet the Demands!
Register to testify at the upcoming BOT meeting before Friday!
Boycott, Divest, We Will Not Stop, They Will Not Rest!
Protest in front of
@ChancellorCUNY
home demands an end to: CUNY’s complicity w/US imperialist backed genocide in Gaza & settler colonialism, repression of students speaking out in solidarity w/Palestine liberation, racist austerity &adjunct exploitation!
#FreeCUNY
#FreePalestine
New York City workers! Demonstrate your solidarity with
#FreePalestine
and call for an end to the US backed settler colonial genocide. Wear your keffiyeh to work week: Jan 8- Jan 12.
At the UN: “Shame, shame, shame”! We won’t forget the institution’s role in enabling the zionist settler colonization of Palestine. Now it’s time to implement the charter & UNGA resolutions that recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination, resistance & right of return!
Out of all the posts, statements, and infographics made out of “concerns for Jewish safety,” Inna Vernikov showed up to Brooklyn College SJPs rally with a GUN to intimidate Palestinian college students and their allies.
Powerful
#FreePalestine
protest in front of Columbia University today! Despite the repression, intimidation & violent arrests by the fascist NYPD, the incredibly courageous
@WOLPalestine
and student leaders kept it moving! The more they try to silence us the louder we will be!
We know this is not about actually fighting anti-semitism but rather trying to chill the growing movement on our campuses against the US-backed genocide & in solidarity w/ Palestine liberation. Shame on you Hochul! We will not be silenced!
#FromTheRiverToSeaPalestineWillBeFree
Calls for genocide on college campuses violate New York's Human Rights Law, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, & SUNY's Code of Conduct. We're prepared to take enforcement action if colleges & universities are found not in compliance.
Read my letter to college presidents:
It’s not lost on us that the CEO of the Strategic Security Corp- the proposed contractor w/
@CUNY
- is also a NYPD veteran of the SRG, the same force that brutalized our CUNY community. Adds insult to injury. They must think we are either idiots or pushovers. We will fight back!
They claim there is no money to fund free tuition/services for our students or a fair contract for our academic workers but CUNY BOT can find money to further repress us! & with a private security company with ties to zionism while we are fighting for BDS! Shame!
#AbolishtheBOT
Shame on
@thenation
for publishing a piece that joins right wing media, politicians & CUNY admin in attacks on Fatima for speaking truth to power & that peddles the false conflation of anti-semitism & anti-zionism/critiques of settler colonialism. With “friends” like these…
Mohammed called for the end to “capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world.” She had previously tweeted: “may every Zionist burn in the hottest pit of hell.”
"While you are shopping, bombs are dropping!"
Protesters take over the shops at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, NYC, while people are shopping during thanksgiving to make people aware that Israel has been dropping bombs over Gaza for almost two months.
This Thursday! NYC student wide rally for
#FreePalestine
!
Join us in demanding
@GovKathyHochul
resign for her complicity in genocide and role in enabling repression in our schools.
Enough is enough!
From CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment:
PUBLIC SAFETY ATTEMPTED TO ENTER ENCAMPMENT. MOBILIZE ASAP TO DEFEND CUNY GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT!!!!
WE WILL NOT ABANDON PALESTINE DESPITE ADMIN THREATS AND POLICE INTIMIDATION.
CUNY Comrades!
Join us today in front of the GC at 6pm to remind the CUNY admin that we are an anti-racist and anti-colonial, working class People’s University and Nancy Pelosi know is not welcome here!
#zionismOutOfCuny
#imperialismOutOfCuny
This is what solidarity looks like! We need to see this happening across the country! Faculty must stand in solidarity with students under attack for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine liberation!
On Dec 13, 2023, during the Graduate Council Meeting of CUNY’s GC students & faculty refused business as usual & expressed solidarity with Palestinians, demanding CUNY admin support a permanent ceasefire resolution. They affirmed the call for Palestinian liberation. A 🧵👇🏾
BREAKING: Several pro-Palestine activists were arrested by police for staging a sit-in on the march route of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.
They claim there is no money to fund free tuition/services for our students or a fair contract for our academic workers but CUNY BOT can find money to further repress us! & with a private security company with ties to zionism while we are fighting for BDS! Shame!
#AbolishtheBOT
In response to student protests, the CUNY board of trustees, which has plead poverty in union negotiations for the past year+, is introducing a resolution to authorize a new $4 million contract with a security firm that advertises its ties to the Israeli surveillance state
As part of our tribute to Refaat Alareer on Friday, English PhD students at the CUNY Grad Center put together a booklet of Dr. Alareer's writing among other items. Please circulate and use as you may need.
CUNY comrades! All out tomorrow to show your support for Hunter students under attack by zionists & the administration for standing in solidarity with Palestine liberation!
The more they try to silence us the louder we will be!
@ 2:15pm, Kaye Playhouse
CUNY students & workers came out in force yesterday to tell the
@ChancellorCUNY
& whole admin that we demand CUNY divest from zionist settler colonialism & apartheid & that OUR CUNY stands in solidarity with
#Palestine
liberation!
🧵with photos & videos from the powerful action
@profdannyshaw
@JJAYCollegeNow
@CUNY
@JJExtAffairs
On March 20, the chair of Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College was told that Mason had intervened directly to block approval of Shaw’s summer and fall 2024 reappointments, violating the principles of departmental autonomy & academic freedom.
C4P denounces the platforming at
@CUNY
GC of Adam Shatz- whose writing appropriates Frantz Fanon's work for empire, emptying it of its radical content. The event contributes to attempts to undermine & dismiss the Palestinian resistance at a time when global solidarity needed.
@profdannyshaw
@JJAYCollegeNow
@CUNY
@JJExtAffairs
Shaw’s firing is at least the 2nd retaliatory non-reappointment of CUNY adjuncts for pro-Palestine speech in the past year - Hunter College fired adjunct Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda last fall for posting in support of Palestine liberation on private social media.
“Our role is to create an anti-Zionist cultural front in the United States.”
Writer and translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda explains her work with the Writers Against War on Gaza (WAWOG) group and shares how her posting about Palestine made her lose the teaching position.
Yesterday, NY trade unionists organized a rally demanding an end to US backed settler colonial genocide in Gaza & of the complicity of labor zionist gatekeepers like
@AFLCIOGlobal
A 🧵
AFL- CIA, how many kids did you kill today?
Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
@Labor4Palestine
📣📣 Direct and urgent call from the students of the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment to the PSC Leadership and Rank And File! Join our assembly at 6:30pm!
🚨🚨CUNY comrades! We need all hands on deck! Defend the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment!! Support our brave students standing in solidarity with Palestine liberation! 🚨🚨
🔊‼️ ALERT ‼️🔊
🚨🚨🚨 URGENT CALL TO DEFEND THE CUNY GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT NOW 🚨🚨🚨
Administration has given us a deadline of until tomorrow morning to shut down our encampment. We reject any attempts to deter us from our commitment to Palestinian liberation.