The Amateur

Computerist

Summer 2024 Support for Student Encampments Spring 2024 Volume 38 No. 1

Table of Contents

Public Statements in Support of the Pro-Palestinian

Movement and Free Speech

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Solidarity Encampments at 130+ Universities . . . . Page 1

Faculty and Staff of University of California . . . . . . Page 3

University President Michael Roth . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3

Connecticut College Faculty and Staff . . . . . . . . . . Page 4

Members of the UCLA Department of History . . . . Page 5

Organizations in Solidarity With Protests for Gaza Page 6

In Defense of Free Speech and Peaceful Protest . Page 6

Over 1400 Int’l Faculty Support CU Students . . . . Page 7

UW-Madison in Solidarity With Student Protest . . Page 9

CCR: Solidarity With Calling for End to Genocide Page 10

CU Alumni Boycott Reunion to Aid Palestine . . . . Page 11

UTS Trustees Endorse Divestment Plan . . . . . . . Page 11

Solidarity Statement CU Library Workers . . . . . . Page 13

Independent CU Student Workers Statement . . . Page 14

Gaza: Killing of Hind Rajab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 16

Students File Civil Rights Complaint . . . . . . . . . . Page 17

Call for a National Week of Rage. . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 18

“I Can’t Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 19

Introduction

At 4 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, a

group of Palestinian, Jewish and other students at

Columbia University in NYC began constructing a

“Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” A large poster read,

“We demand: 1. Financial divestment, 2. Academic

boycott, 3. Stop the displacement, 4. No policing on

campus, and 5. End the silence.” The peaceful en-

campment on the small East Lawn did not block any

building or walkway. On Thursday, April 18, the

University authorized the NYPD to enter the campus

and clear the encampment. The police arrested 108

protestors without any resistance. The arrest of stu-

dents peacefully demonstrating for an end to the

genocide of Palestinians and for the end of Columbia

University’s investment in Israel and the war industries

contributing to that genocide, triggered similar en-

campments and demands on many U.S. campuses, at

some of which the police were called. In April and

May 2024, in the U.S. there were more than 120 en-

campments and more than 3,000 people arrested or

detained at campus protests.

This issue of the Amateur Computerist begins

with a list of over 130 universities in the U.S. and in

other countries where students set up such encamp-

ments in support of the people of Palestine and for the

end of the war against Gaza. The list is followed by a

collection of public statements made during the en-

campments in support of the student-led pro-Palestin-

ian movement and in defense of the rights of peaceful

assembly and free speech on campuses.

The issue ends with three articles and a blog

post, “I Can’t Sleep,” which document the source of

the anger and frustration that is motivating people all

over the world to seek ways to help end the inhumanity

being imposed on Gaza and the Palestinian people in

the West Bank.

Gaza Solidarity

Encampments at

130+ Universities

(April and May 2024)

American University

Arizona State University

Auraria Campus (Denver)

Barnard College

Berklee College of Music

Brown University

Bryn Mawr College

Cal Poly Humboldt

Case Western Reserve University

Columbia University

Community Collage of Denver

http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/

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Cornell University

CSU Sacramento

CUNY (CCNY Campus)

D.C. Encampment

DePaul University

Drexel University

Duke University

Emerson College

Emory University

Fashion Institute of Technology

Floride State University

Fordham University

Gallaudet University

George Mason University

George Washington University

Georgetown University

Hamline University

Harvard University

Haverford College

Howard University

Indiana University - Bloomington

Indiana University - lndianapolis

Johns Hopkins University

Louisiana State University

Loyola University

Mass Institute of Technology (MIT)

Metropolitan State Univ of Denver

Miami University

Michigan State University

Middlebury College

New York University (NYU)

North Carolina

North Carolina State

Northeastern University

Northwestern University

Oberlin College

Occidental College

Ohio State University

Persons The New School for Design

Pitzer College, Clarermont

Princeton University

Purdue University

Rhode Island

Rice University

Rutgers University

San Francisco State University

Smith College

Sonoma State University

Stanford University

Stony Brook University

Swarthmore College

Syracuse University + SUNY ESF

Temple University

The New School

The University of Connecticut

Triangle Solidarity Encampment UNC Chapel Hill

Tufts University

Tulane Encampment

University of Albany

University of Arizona

University of California - Irvine

University of California - Riverside

University of California - Berkeley

University of California - Los Angeles

University of California - Santa Barbara

University of Chicago

University of Colorado

University of Florlda

University of Georgia

University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

University of Mary Washington

University of Maryland

University of Maryland - Baltimore

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of New Mexico

University of New Orleans

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina - Charlotte

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rochester

University of South Florida

University of Southern California

University of Texas - Arlington

University of Texas - Austin

University of Texas - Dallas

University of Utah

University of Vermont

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin - Madison

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Vanderbilt University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Tech

Washington University

Wayne State University

Wesleyan University

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Yale University

American University in Cairo

Beirut Arab University

Concordia University

IPSI - Institut de Presse et des Sciences

de l'Information - Manouba Tunisia

Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesl

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Kuwait University

McGill University

NYU Berlin

NYU Buonos Aires

Quebec Encampment

Sciences Po (Paris)

Selçuk University

Sorbonne University

University of Alberta

University of British Columbia

University of Jordan

University of Melbourne

University of Quebec in Montreal

University of Queensland

University of Sydney

University of Tokyo

University of Valencia

University of Warwick

University of California

Faculty Statement on

Protests*

(April 24, 2024)

Faculty across the University of California

system have signed onto the statement,

“Support Students’ Right to Nonviolently

Protest at the University of California.”

[Nonviolent student protests at the University of California change

the world. Entire academic departments owe their existence to

nonviolent student protests at the University of California. The

nationwide student movement to end the Vietnam War can trace

its beginnings to nonviolent student protests at the University of

California.]

As faculty and staff at the University of Cali-

fornia, we believe that the ability to protest nonvio-

lently is essential to our democracy and a basic human

right that must be respected and protected. We bear the

responsibility of ensuring the safety, welfare, and basic

human rights of our students. After more than 108

students engaged in a peaceful protest were arrested,

suspended from their courses, and evicted from univer-

sity housing on April 18, 2024 at Columbia University,

with NYPD Chief of Patrol, John Chell, stating that

“the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered

no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they

wanted to say in a peaceful manner,” we believe that

this basic human right requires our active protection.

Arresting or punishing students who protest

peacefully and nonviolently on our campuses is anti-

thetical to our university’s highest ideals of learning

and scholarship and violates our university’s funda-

mental values of decency and respect. Especially dur-

ing difficult moments of intense political contestation,

it is essential that all members of our university com-

munity respect each other and not engage in autho-

ritarian power plays. Our university has witnessed acts

of police violence against students protesting peace-

fully (Davis in 2011), suspensions, evictions, and mass

firings without due process (Santa Cruz in 2015 and

again in 2020), and the use of university facilities as a

field jail (Los Angeles in 2020). These infamous and

disgraceful actions damage our confidence in each

other and must not be repeated. In every action we

take, we express our values as members of our trea-

sured community.

As our students stand up and use their voices,

we will always do our best to support them and their

basic human rights, and thereby support our university

and our democracy.

https://dailynous.com/2024/04/29/university-of-california-

faculty-statement-on-protests/

Statement by Wesleyan

University President

Michael Roth*

(April 29, 2024)

Dear friends, This morning you can find pro-

Palestinian protesters camped out behind North Col-

lege. The students there know that they are in violation

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of university rules and seem willing to accept the

consequences. The protest has been non-violent and

has not disrupted normal campus operations. As long

as it continues in this way, the University will not at-

tempt to clear the encampment. The University will

not tolerate intimidation or harassment of students,

staff, or faculty. Protesters assure us that they have no

intention of engaging in these kinds of actions. We will

continue to monitor the situation to keep everyone safe

and will send updates as necessary. There will be many

on campus who cheer on the protesters, and many who

are offended or even frightened by their rallies and

messages. But as long as we all reject violence, we

have opportunities to listen and to learn from one

another. This may not happen during the chanting and

drumming, but it can happen during some of the

planned discussion sessions and deep conversations

that will take place throughout the week. This is a

challenging time in world affairs and in the lives of

many – including college students – concerned about

their own relation to the brutal war in the Middle East.

May we at Wesleyan find ways to learn from this dif-

ficult moment – determining what it is we can do to

serve the goal of a sustainable peace – even as we

finish out this academic year.

With hope, Michael S. Roth, President

https://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

See blog post on Apr 29, 2024

Connecticut College Faculty

and Staff Statement of

Solidarity with Students and

Colleagues Across the

Nation*

(May 2, 2024)

The undersigned Faculty and Staff at Connecti-

cut College stand in solidarity with our colleagues and

students across the nation who have been subjected to

arrests, violence, and repression. We echo the national

Faculty for Justice in Palestine positions that state:

1. Institutions of higher education have never been

apolitical spaces, and choosing to remain neutral in the

face of a genocide is, itself, a political position.

2. Criminalizing students for peaceful protest demon-

strates these institutions’ deplorable commitment to

the repression of academic inquiry and the shackling of

critical thought.

3. Student activism, and student protest in particular,

is a time-honored social and political tradition in the

United States.

4. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the

recent spate of arrests of peaceful student activists,

faculty, and staff at Columbia, Barnard, Emory, Tustin,

Princeton, Northeastern, Emerson, USC, and many

more. These students assembled on campus property to

voice their opposition to institutional study abroad

programs in Israel that violate college nondiscrimina-

tion policies; college and university investments in

U.S. companies that produce weapons for sale to

Israel; and Israeli companies that develop surveillance

and policing technologies deployed to advance the

ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

5. The criminalization of nonviolent student protesters

constitutes a willful and cynical flouting of the mission

of universities as speech havens, where the strong pro-

tections of academic freedom must apply and be up-

held. It also gravely impacts the criminalized students’

careers and sustenance, contributes to the moral panic

that conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism

and terrorism, and reinforces the rise of the new

McCarthyism across society.

6. Policies for the future protection of speech, includ-

ing and especially dissent are vital to the functioning

of educational institutions.

7. Divestment is a tried and true political strategy.

Faculty play a crucial role in supporting student de-

mands for universities and colleges to divest from

companies supporting Israeli state violence, genocide,

apartheid, and occupation.

We also stand in solidarity with Israeli organi-

zations and activists who oppose Israeli apartheid and

Jewish supremacy such as Shoresh. At Connecticut

College in particular, we are firmly committed to com-

bating any form of racism, including anti-Arab and

anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism,

anti-Blackness, and white supremacy. We are also

firmly committed to combating all forms of oppres-

sion, including caste hierarchies and those targeting

sexuality, trans and non-binary gender identification,

and disabilities of any kind. We strongly reject any

claim by our administration that a critique of Zionism

is anti-Semitic or that Zionism is “part of Jewish

shared ancestry and religion” (email on “Public In-

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quiry and Freedom of Expression Policy Interpretation

Guidance”) rather than a historically constructed po-

litical reality. We are firmly committed to support and

encourage the free exploration of ideas without fear of

intimidation or censure, most especially for our stu-

dents. We are also committed to pursuing transparency

in our own institution’s investments.

Faculty Statements of Support for Student Protestors and

other relevant statements:

UT Austin – Statement from Concerned Fac-

ulty

UT Austin Faculty Response to Police Vio-

lence

Columbia University AAUP Letter

Columbia University Faculty & Staff for Jus-

tice in Palestine Call for Boycott of Com-

mencement

Columbia University Apartheid Divest Divest-

ment Proposal

Letter to Boycott Columbia signed by thou-

sands

Columbia & Barnard AAUP condemnation of

student suspensions and NYPD sweep

AAUP Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms

of Students

FJP Statement About Campus Repression

AAUP Statement, Legislative Threats to Aca-

demic Freedom: Redefinitions of Anti-Semi-

tism and Racism

AAUP Statement, Polarizing Times Demand

Robust Academic Freedom

CUNY Statement on the Arrests

UPenn Statement on Suppression of Student

and Faculty Dissent

NYU Letter from Chairs and Directors

University of California Support for Nonviolent

Protest

Washington University Faculty Response

Vanderbilt University Faculty Letter to Admin-

istrators

Faculty for Justice in Palestine Network Chap-

ters

https://thecollegevoice.org/2024/05/02/faculty-statement-of-

solidarity-with-student-protestors/

Statement of Members of the

Department of History in

Response to the Attack on

the UCLA Encampment on

30 April, 2024*

(May 1, 2024)

We, members of the History Department, a

number of whom were present during the events of the

night of 30 April to 1 May, strongly condemn the mob

attack on our students and the university’s failure to

support our students’ right to protest peacefully and to

be kept safe while doing so.

The encampment itself had been a model of its

kind: it was limited to members of the university com-

munity through the checking of IDs to gain access;

participants made continual efforts to avoid engage-

ment with hecklers; and it maintained its focus on its

own concerns. This orderly and self-disciplined en-

vironment seemed to have the support of the university

administration, which initially praised its decorum.

This policy on the part of the UC and UCLA adminis-

tration earned high praise for its restraint and for its

clear dedication to protecting the rights of students to

protest peacefully.

In a sharp reversal, on 30 April, President

Drake issued a statement declaring that the encamp-

ment was “unlawful,” and Chancellor Block called it

“unauthorized.” Such statements withdrew official pro-

tections from these peaceful student activities, making

the students vulnerable to attack. Later that night, the

campus was invaded by a violent mob of individuals

including many not affiliated with the campus commu-

nity. History faculty who were present reported that

many were middle-aged men; some shouted white

supremacist slurs; and others brandished flags linked

to violent, right-wing organizations. The security per-

sonnel who had been stationed around the barricade

left the scene, abandoning it to attack. The violent mob

used toxic spray, fireworks, pieces of the barricade,

pipes, boards, and bottles to assault the students and

faculty inside the encampment. They tore the barri-

cades apart to get at the students inside. During this

time, the security personnel and campus police made

no effort to stop them. Student journalists and faculty

observers outside the encampment were also threat-

ened and assaulted. When police finally arrived many

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hours later, they watched the attacks, failing to come

to the aid of those in the encampment. Some history

department faculty who were at the scene reported that

police, far from putting a halt to the violence, seemed

to be marching alongside the mob. No emergency aid

was provided to the students who were bleeding, gas-

sed, or concussed. Today we heard many first-hand

accounts of the violence and the lack of support from

police and security forces.

We want to object in the strongest possible

terms to this travesty. We are horrified that Chancellor

Block abdicated his responsibility to protect and sup-

port students. His statements (and those of President

Drake) opened the way to these attacks on our commu-

nity. The exemplary nature of this encampment made

it a target for those who oppose the free exercise of

views other than their own. We demand that the Chan-

cellor and the President be held accountable for their

actions in sacrificing student safety and liberties to

political expediency. We call for the resignation of

Chancellor Gene Block.

We want the university to stand up for the safe-

ty and the rights of the campus community by defend-

ing the continuing existence of the encampment. The

encampment must be protected and the rights of peace-

ful protests upheld.

Signed by over 40 Members of the UCLA Department

of History

https://history.ucla.edu/2024/05/01/statement-of-members-of-

the-ucla-department-of-history-faculty-in-response-to-the-attack-

on-the-encampment-on-30-april-2024/

Statement in Solidarity With

Student Protests for Gaza*

(April 29, 2024)

We, the undersigned organizations, stand in

solidarity with the students nationwide and globally

who are bravely protesting in encampments and other-

wise to condemn Israel’s ongoing bombardment of

Gaza – actions which human rights organizations, a

federal U.S. court, and the International Court of Jus-

tice have said “plausibly” constitute genocide.

We commend the students who are exercising

their right to protest peacefully despite an overwhelm-

ing atmosphere of pressure, intimidation and retalia-

tion, to raise awareness about Israel’s assault on Gaza

– with U.S. weapons and funding. These students have

come forth with clear demands that their universities

divest from corporations profiting from Israeli occupa-

tion, and demanding safe environments for Palestin-

ians across their campuses. The students’ courage and

determination in the face of adversity inspire us all to

take action and speak out against injustice wherever it

occurs. As they risk everything right now, it is critical

that all of us do everything we can to support them.

We join them in calling for an immediate and

lasting cease-fire and an end to the U.S. government’s

and institutions’ role in the ongoing genocide of Pal-

estinians in Gaza.

As we stand in solidarity with the students pro-

testing in encampments across the country, we reaffirm

our commitment to amplifying their voices, condemn

the university administration officials’ violent response

to their activism, and demand that universities remove

the presence of police and other militarized forces

from their campuses.

In solidarity

Signed by more than 250 organizations, listed at:

https://www.mpowerchange.org/gazastudentprotests.

https://www.mpowerchange.org/gazastudentprotests

American Association of

University Professors

Statement “In Defense of the

Right to Free Speech and

Peaceful Protest on

University Campuses”*

(April 29, 2024)

The AAUP and its chapters defend the right to

free speech and peaceful protest on university cam-

puses, condemn the militarized response by institu-

tional leaders to these activities, and vehemently op-

pose the politically motivated assault on higher educa-

tion.

Our colleges and universities are places of free

and open expression, inquiry, and debate. Even in

sharp disagreement, our goal is communication in ser-

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vice of learning and understanding. The critical evalua-

tion of different points of view and the questioning of

even the most deeply held beliefs are essential to learn-

ing. So too is our students’ right to protest and to ex-

press their political convictions.

In a democratic society based on the fundamen-

tal value of free speech, it is unacceptable to respond

to demonstrations with violent repression. When the

Speaker of the House of Representatives equates pro-

testers at Columbia University with terrorists, he irre-

sponsibly incites violence. When politicians demand

the resignation of university presidents, they threaten

the autonomy of private universities. These actions

continue an alarming and decades-long trend of under-

mining the shared governance, academic freedom and

independence that have made American higher educa-

tion globally preeminent. These recent interferences

and threats are part of an ongoing partisan, political

attack intended to dismantle higher education in ser-

vice to the public interest, and make our institutions

beholden only to corporate, political and private in-

terests. They are an existential threat to democracy.

We condemn, in the strongest possible terms,

the heavy-handed, militaristic response to student ac-

tivism that we are seeing across the country. At this

critical moment, too many cowardly university leaders

are responding to largely peaceful, outdoor protests by

inviting law enforcement in riot gear to campus and

condoning violent arrests. These administrators are

failing in their duty to their institutions, their faculty,

their students, and their central obligation to our demo-

cratic society. When university administrators limit

when, where, and how free speech may be exercised,

and require advanced applications for permission of

such expression, they effectively gut the right itself. To

insist that harsh discipline and violent repression are

necessary to combat hate on a college campus is a pre-

text to suppress protest and silence speech.

Harassment and hate have no place on college

campuses or anywhere. Universities have carefully de-

veloped policies and disciplinary procedures based on

due process to address these long-standing problems

and these must be used now and allowed to run their

course. Policies enacted unilaterally after October 7

violate principles of shared governance, and institu-

tions should enforce only mutually-approved policies

which, on a college campus, should be focused on re-

storative justice and learning in service of understand-

ing.

We are alarmed at the shameless exertion of

pressure on university leaders by the nation’s politi-

cians, by the universities’ most powerful donors, and

by other interest groups. We are even more alarmed at

how quickly our institutional leaders have capitulated

to that pressure. In just a few months, too many uni-

versity leaders have abandoned long-standing princi-

ples of academic freedom and shared governance that

are meant to protect colleges from such outside influ-

ence. Policies guaranteeing academic freedom and free

speech mean nothing if they are not upheld in times of

stress. We call on institutional leaders to reinstate stu-

dent organizations shut down in recent months for

political activity, to drop charges against peaceful pro-

testers, to observe due process in disciplinary actions,

to keep armed law enforcement off campuses, and to

uphold fundamental freedoms for students and faculty.

AAUP stands with our chapters and members

nationwide who are defending free speech, the right of

assembly, and associational rights for students. The

way forward is through education and dialogue, not

through zip-ties and fear-mongering. We invite all

AAUP members, AAUP chapters, higher-education

unions and any organizational ally to endorse these

positions by signing this statement.

Signed by at least 100 AAUP Chapters and other

groups.

https://www.aaup.org/media-release/defense-right-free-speech-

and-peaceful-protest-university-campuses

Letter Signed by Over 1400

International Faculty

Supporting Columbia

Students’ Protest

Encampment*

(April 23, 2024)

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with

members of the Columbia University community

demanding that the University divest from Israel’s

U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. We

write to announce our initiation of an academic and

cultural boycott of Columbia University and Barnard

College.

Israel has undertaken a systematic campaign to

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destroy the Palestinian education system. Thousands of

students, teachers and professors have been martyred,

and 80% of educational facilities in Gaza have been

partially or wholly destroyed, including every univer-

sity, the Gaza Municipal Archive and hundreds of li-

braries, bookstores, and publishing houses.

We are appalled by the Columbia administra-

tion’s decision to call the NYPD’s Strategic Response

Group onto campus, in full riot gear, to arrest over one

hundred peacefully protesting students. At the time of

the arrest, NYPD representatives stated that “students

were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever” and

that the assessment of “danger” was the University’s

alone. We are appalled by the decision to summarily

suspend these students at both Barnard and Columbia,

and further, to evict Barnard students from their stu-

dent housing. We reject the false language of “safety”

President Shafik has invoked to justify these actions.

Likewise, we reject as ludicrous the idea that the

Columbia administration was forced to call in the

NYPD because of the need to “protect students from

rhetoric that amounts to harassment and discrimina-

tion.” Indeed, it is the University’s own decision to

arrest, intimidate, criminalize, and punish students that

has endangered their safety. If a university would

rather arrest its own students than listen to their de-

mands – if it would rather imitate the military tactics

of a state that has destroyed every university in Gaza,

burying students and colleagues under the rubble, than

divest from it – then is it still a university? We see the

administration’s actions for what they are: an embar-

rassing attempt to appease donors, trustees, and mem-

bers of Congress by cracking down on students peace-

fully protesting the University’s complicity in geno-

cide.

To this end, we are initiating a boycott of Co-

lumbia University and Barnard College until the fol-

lowing demands are met:

1. Barnard College, Teacher’s College,

and Columbia University must reverse

and expunge all suspensions and char-

ges from protesting students’ records,

and immediately restore these students’

campus privileges. This includes re-

versing the suspension of the student

groups Columbia Students for Justice

in Palestine and Columbia Jewish

Voices for Peace.

2. University administration must re-

move police presence from campus and

end the targeted repression of students

involved in anti-genocide protesting,

both on and off campus.

3. Presidents Minouche Shafik (Colum-

bia) and Laura Rosenbury (Barnard)

must resign.

We call on academics of conscience

worldwide to join us.

Until these demands are met, our boycott com-

prises the following actions, and will affect all non-

clerical members of University administration, as well

as tenure and tenure-track faculty.

1. We will not participate in academic

or other cultural events held at or offi-

cially sponsored by Columbia Univer-

sity or Barnard College.

This includes, but is not limited to,

workshops, conferences, talks, screen-

ings, and invited lectures.

2. We will not collaborate with Colum-

bia or Barnard faculty who hold posi-

tions within the university administra-

tion in addition to their academic ap-

pointments.

This includes but is not limited to:

invitations to academic events at our

universities; collaboration on any new

grants and workshops; co-authorship of

papers.

3. Some signatories may further engage

in common sense boycotts of faculty

independently of their administrative

role based on faculty members’ partic-

ular complicity with Columbia and

Barnard’s repression. Likewise, some

signatories may engage in common

sense boycotts of publications affiliated

with Columbia University.

We endorse and reiterate the demands of the

Gaza Solidarity Encampment: divest all of Columbia’s

finances, including the endowment, from companies

and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, geno-

cide and occupation in Palestine; and ensure account-

ability by increasing transparency around financial

investments.

We stand in full solidarity with the brave stu-

dents, clerical staff, graduate workers, post-doctoral

workers, and faculty at Columbia, Barnard, and Teach-

er’s College resisting genocide, from Gaza, from Pal-

estine, to Morningside Heights.

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Statement in Solidarity With

Student Protest From the

University of Wisconsin-

Madison Community*

(April 30, 2024)

We, the faculty, staff, alumni, and donors of the

University of Wisconsin-Madison, proudly and enthu-

siastically affirm the rights of student activists to pro-

test Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its

continuing occupation, assassinations, land dispos-

sessions, and arrests in the West Bank. We are heart-

ened to see our students’ commitment to critical think-

ing and civic engagement on display, alongside that of

their peers across the nation. Our student protestors

embody the university’s commitment to the Wisconsin

Idea in action through the fight for human life and

dignity. They exemplify our shared philosophy that

education must “… influence people’s lives beyond

the boundaries of the classroom.”

This action is a powerful new chapter in UW-

Madison’s long and impressive history of student acti-

vism. On October 18, 1967, hundreds of students stag-

ed a sit-in at Commerce (now Ingraham) Hall to pro-

test on-campus recruiters from Dow Chemical Com-

pany, a key manufacturer of Napalm for the U.S. Mili-

tary in Vietnam. Like our students today, those stu-

dents demanded that the university cease its material

and ideological support for entities aiding mass murder

in another country. They sought to achieve these de-

mands through peaceful and conscientious protest.

When Madison police arrived at the scene of the Dow

Chemical protest in 1967, they quickly and viciously

attacked student protesters with clubs and tear gas,

injuring and arresting dozens, in a horrific display of

coercive force. To this day, that unprovoked and un-

necessary police violence remains a dark stain on the

university’s history. Then-Chancellor Bill Sewell shar-

ed his “regret” for bringing police to campus and

warned that such a response “must not be repeated.”

We urge the university, which now proudly celebrates

those students and their activism, to heed Sewell’s

words today.

In affirming our students’ concerns and de-

mands, we reject the weaponization of antisemitism. It

is neither antisemitic nor a danger to campus safety for

students to engage in peaceful protest. Nor is it anti-

semitic to oppose the violent actions of the Israeli

government and army that contribute to the ongoing

genocide of the Palestinian people. As many of us

wrote in a letter on December 21, 2023, “We cannot

have educational conversations if critical interrogation

[sic] of Israel or Zionism are censored as antisemitic.”

As scholars of nationalism – many of whom are mem-

bers of our UW-Madison community – have shown,

the distinction between a people and a nation-state is

an essential framework for the spirit of critique.

We expect the UW-Madison administration,

including the Dean of Students and University of Wis-

consin Police Department, to honor our shared values

of protecting students’ rights to free expression by

refraining from the punishment of students, staff, fa-

culty, and community members exercising their right

to peaceful protest. We have seen alarming responses

to peaceful protests from our peer institutions, includ-

ing many of those with which we are in close commu-

nity. As the Daily Cardinal recently reported, Chancel-

lor Mnookin has the power to protect students from

such harmful and drastic measures by allowing stu-

dents, should they so desire, to erect tents. We call on

our colleagues in the UW-Madison administration to

listen to our students and engage with their demands.

We ask them to seek to understand why the students

are enacting historic strategies and tactics of organiz-

ing and activism.

Now is the time for our UW administration to

live up to our institutional mission: “to provide a learn-

ing environment in which faculty, staff and students

can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit

the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help en-

sure the survival of this and future generations and

improve the quality of life for all.” Our students em-

body this commitment, and as they offer a tangible

opportunity for us to do the same, we implore our uni-

versity community to learn with and from them in this

moment.

We, the undersigned, demand:

! No punishment of any UW-Madison

community member (ie: student, fac-

ulty, staff, etc.) in the form of violence,

arrest, suspension, expulsion, academic

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discipline, or the loss of residential pri-

vileges or employment.

! Administration liaise directly with

faculty, staff, and student representa-

tives in order to seriously and fairly

take into consideration protest de-

mands.

! Transparency in university finances,

particularly in the disclosure of ties

with and investments in companies that

supply, coordinate with, and profit

from Israeli apartheid and the ongoing

violence in Gaza.

In Solidarity with the Students

Signed by 900 UW-Madison faulty, staff, alumni,

parents and donors.

https://www.instagram.com/lachristagreco/p/C6ZTh3GAyoe

In Solidarity With Students

Calling for End to Complicity

in Israel’s Genocide Of

Palestinians in Gaza*

(April 25, 2024)

New York, April 25, 2024 – In response to the

crackdown on college students protesting Israel’s gen-

ocide in Gaza, the Center for Constitutional Rights

issued the following statement:

We stand in solidarity with the student activists

facing repression for demanding that their universities

end their complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestin-

ians. In a futile attempt to mollify politicians and

donors, college presidents like Columbia’s Minouche

Shafik have suspended students and called in the

police to clear their encampments. Such repression is

not new. Months before the first tent popped up on the

lawn, Columbia suspended Students for Justice in

Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, and universities

started suppressing speech by Palestinian rights advo-

cates years ago.

The furor over campus protests hit the news

cycle just as Palestinians uncovered another mass

grave in a hospital recently evacuated by Israeli forces,

and families are searching for signs of their loved ones

among mutilated and decomposing bodies. Those

condemning the students aim to draw attention away

from the cause of their outrage: Israel’s genocide in

Gaza and U.S. institutions’ unconditional support for

it. In response to the lawsuit brought against President

Biden by Palestinians and Palestinian human rights

organizations, a U.S. federal judge found that “the on-

going military siege in Gaza is intended to eradicate a

whole people and therefore plausibly falls within the

international prohibition against genocide.” He then

stated: “It is every individual's obligation to confront

the current siege in Gaza.”

Students are doing just that. More headlines

and outrage have focused on their nonviolent tactics

than on Israel’s killing of 35,000 Palestinians, its

campaign of starvation that could kill hundreds of

thousands more, and its destruction of Gaza’s institu-

tions and infrastructure. During his testimony in court,

one of our clients described in agonizing detail how all

the places in Gaza that Palestinians have known and

loved – including their universities – have been wiped

out.

After nearly seven months of incessant, delib-

erate obliteration of Palestinian life, students are de-

manding that their schools take action. Suppression of

their advocacy only intensifies their resolve and in-

spires other students to join the effort. The movement

is growing by the hour. Following in the tradition of

the students who protested the Vietnam war in 1968 –

including our former president, Michael Ratner – and

those who compelled Columbia and other universities

to divest from South Africa in the 1980s, today’s stu-

dent activists stand on the right side of history. We

commend their leadership and are proud to stand with

them.

https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/solidar

ity-students-calling-end-complicity-israel-s-genocide

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Columbia University Alumni

Boycott Reunion

Redirect All Donations to Aid for

Palestine Until Student

Demands Are Met*

(May 4, 2024)

Organizers have planned an alternative event

that will not financially support Columbia.

We Stand in Solidarity with Thousands of Alumni and

Their Statements

New York, NY – We, the alumni of Columbia Univer-

sity and Barnard College, write to announce a boycott

of the upcoming Columbia College, SEAS, and

Barnard alumni reunions, scheduled for May 31 to

June 1. We will be redirecting the money that would

otherwise have gone toward tickets to reunion events,

as well as all other alumni donations, to direct aid to

Palestine.

We are unable to reconcile the University’s

recent actions with the values and principles that de-

fined our education at Columbia and Barnard. The

University administration’s brutal repression of student

and faculty voices, and the use of law enforcement

against peaceful protestors, have forced us to remove

ourselves from any and all initiatives sponsored by the

current Columbia University administration until these

wrongs are rectified.

We join thousands of alumni from 20+ organi-

zations in signing onto an alumni petition expressing

our complete and unwavering support for students’

right to free speech and assembly, and on-campus ad-

vocacy for the dignity and human rights of Palestin-

ians.

We call upon the University to meet the de-

mands of student protestors for divestment from com-

panies supporting Israel’s government, disclosure of

those investments, full amnesty for students and pro-

fessors unfairly disciplined for exercising their free

speech in calling for freedom, safety, and self-determi-

nation for the Palestinian people, and all other de-

mands outlined in detail in our petition.

We will be hosting alternative reunion events

on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1, in solidarity

with student and faculty protestors and unaffiliated

with Columbia University. This alternative reunion is

welcome to all who feel similarly or wish to learn

more in good faith.

Our alumni donations and reunion ticket events

will be redirected from Columbia University to the

following causes:

United Nations Relief and Works Agency:

UNRWA USA is an independent nonprofit supporting

the work of the United Nations Relief and Works

Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

through fund-raising, education, and advocacy.

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund: The PCRF is

a legally registered non-political, non-profit, 501(c)3

tax-exempt organization established in 1991 by con-

cerned people to address the medical and humanitarian

needs of Palestinian and Arab youths in the Middle

East.

World Central Kitchen: WCK is an NGO, non-

for-profit organization that recently resumed opera-

tions of providing meals to millions of Gazans facing

starvation after losing seven of its members in an

Israeli air strike.

* https://bwog.com/2024/05/columbia-and-barnard-alumni-

announce-a-boycott-of-university-reunions-and-plans-to-send-

funds-from-alternative-events-to-aid-in-palestine/

Union Theological Seminary

Board of Trustees Endorses

Divestment and Other

Strategies for Companies

Profiting From War in

Palestine/Israel*

(May 9, 2024)

Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in the City

of New York has a long history of preparing religious

and spiritual leaders for lives committed to creating a

more just and peaceful world for all. This commitment

is not just one among many; it is core to our very

identity. In line with this, we have long sought to

manage our endowment in a manner that reflects these

values. Over the decades, we have developed what are

called “socially responsible investment (SRI) screens”

to express our values and not financially support

damaging and immoral investments, including our

early divestment from the dehumanizing system of

apartheid in South Africa. More recently, this has in-

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cluded screens against investing in for-profit prisons

and fossil fuels, among many other screens. Indeed, we

were the first institution of higher education to divest

from fossil fuels in 2014. Our policies remain both

consistent and evolving. When we proactively create

screens, we intend for them, in principle, to be applica-

ble in a global context and be sustainable over time.

This makes our screens stronger, not weaker – and

wider, not smaller.

Our screens already prevent investments in

armaments, weapons, and defense manufacturers, as

well as companies that participate in human rights

violations. Managing our endowment in a manner that

actively seeks the good and leverages our resources to

reduce harm is an ongoing process, and we will remain

committed to these principles into the future.

With respect to companies that are profiting

from the present war in Palestine, we continue to hold

these standards high and have taken steps to identify

all investments, both domestic and global, that support

and profit from the present killing of innocent civilians

in Palestine, whose numbers are now over 34,000 –

and a humanitarian crisis of ever-growing magnitude.

Union’s president, faculty, and students have repeat-

edly made strong public calls for an immediate cease-

fire and will continue to do so until this continually

escalating war has stopped. These calls are supported

by today’s decision by Union’s Investment Commit-

tees to withdraw support from companies profiting

from the war. We have been working on this decision

since November of 2023, a decision that has required

research and exploration into our investment portfolio,

and that research and monitoring will continue.

Let us share with you directly our multifaceted

policy related to companies profiting from the war in

Palestine adopted by the Board of Trustees Investment

Committee today and endorsed by Union’s Board of

Trustees:

We are revising the section of our investment

policy statement section pertaining to responsible in-

vesting to include an overt reference to the Israel-

Palestine hostilities, in addition to current robust pol-

icies regarding fossil fuels, military weapons, private

prisons, etc.

We are directing our investment consultants

and conferring with other resources to determine a list

of those companies substantially and intractably bene-

fiting from the war in Palestine that may not be cap-

tured by existing screens. We are also identifying

resources to monitor changes to company activity over

time.

We are directing our investment managers to

exclude those companies from the portfolios managed

on behalf of Union.

If relevant holdings are held in commingled

accounts or mutual funds, we are directing the man-

ager of those funds to divest, or we will find another

alternative vehicle.

We are joining the Interfaith Center on Corpo-

rate Responsibility (ICCR) so that in addition to our

individual institutional divestments, we can align

ourselves with other like-minded activist institutions

engaging with corporations on their activities related

to human rights. This strategy emerged from previous

divestment and corporate engagement movements,

which found collective leverage to be an important part

of bringing needed pressure to bear on areas where we

seek to create pressure and impact.

As we also learned from previous divestment

actions, we are also exploring investments that proac-

tively support humanitarian and entrepreneurial com-

panies doing positive work in the region.

With the ICCR among our guides in this pro-

cess to expand our responsible investor toolkit, we

commit to making participation in our meetings with

ICCR open to students and others, in addition to main-

taining our present policy of having direct UTS student

representation on our Investment Committee. We be-

lieve that teaching others how to responsibly and

morally manage investments is a key dimension of

Union’s teaching mission and our commitment to

transparency.

To be clear, as we take these actions, we re-

main unequivocal in our denouncement of the horrific

killing by Hamas of Israeli citizens on October 7,

2023, and call for the immediate release of all hos-

tages. With respect to both Palestine and Israel, we

affirm their right to secure existence and self-determi-

nation. We also remain committed in all we do to stand

against all forms of hatred, including antisemitism and

Islamophobia. Our investment policies will continue to

adapt, guided by our values, to strengthen the resolve

that undergirds our decision today. We do not take this

step lightly, and we do so with all humility, recogniz-

ing that our work on the global stage is far from fin-

ished. Although our investments in the war in Palestine

are small because our previous, strong anti-armament

screens are robust, we hope that our action today will

bring needed pressure to bear to stop the killing and

find a peaceful future for all.

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* https://utsnyc.edu/blog/2024/05/09/union-theological-semi nary-

board-of-trustees-endorses-divestment-and-other-strategies-for-

companies-profiting-from-war-in-palestine-israel/

Solidarity Statement

Representing Library Workers

Across the Columbia

University Libraries System*

(May 12, 2024)

Libraries should cooperate with all persons and

groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free

expression and free access to ideas.

— Library Bill of Rights, American Library Associa-

tion (ALA)

The following is a statement by library workers

in the Columbia University Libraries (CUL) system.

We speak not as representatives of the system, but as

individuals with common concerns grounded in our

community membership and adherence to the values of

librarianship. Library workers hold a range of opin-

ions, emotions, and experiences. Recent events require

us to speak in unison and with moral clarity.

As a collective of library workers within CUL,

and members of the Columbia University community,

we take seriously our role as stewards of knowledge.

We are charged with encouraging critical thinking

through the accessible provision of research materials

and instructional tools for learning.

We are appalled by President Shafik's and the

Columbia Board of Trustees’ deployment of public

and private security entities on our campus (cf. “Letter

to the NYPD,” 18 April, 2024,

https://publicsafety.col

umbia.edu/content/letter-nypd). These actions stand in

clear contradiction to all values espoused by academic

institutions, impede us in serving the libraries’ many

communities, and undermine core library values of

free thought, free expression, and right of access to

information that we uphold in our daily work.

Student arrests and suspensions for protesting

the University’s complicity in the ongoing genocide of

the Palestinian people directly contradicts the adminis-

tration’s stated desire to encourage “thoughtful, rig-

orous debate.” These actions highlight the University’s

hypocrisy when it promotes itself using archival ma-

terials that document its past suppression of student

dissent (http://tiny.cc/j5juxz). Current policing actions

to quell dissent also contradict intellectual freedom as

a central value of librarianship. University officials’

use of law enforcement on our campus and threats of

State violence stand in the way of our commitment,

grounded in ALA principles, to serving the public

good of “creating informed, connected, educated, and

empowered communities.”

As library workers, we oppose the escalated

and violent suppression of speech, as well as increas-

ing crackdowns on the free exchange of ideas – two

pillars of our academic community that Columbia

claims to uphold – that have come to define the 2023-

2024 academic year. Locked campus gates, whether

against our Harlem neighbors or members of our uni-

versity community, are a disturbing symbol of the anti-

democratic and anti-intellectual climate the current

Columbia administration are attempting to make the

new normal.

We endorse Columbia University Apartheid

Divest’s six demands (https://cuad.org/).

We reject anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-

Black racism, anti-semitism, and Islamophobia. We

reject the conflation of advocacy for Palestinian rights

with anti-semitism, as thoughtfully articulated by the

April 10 Jewish faculty op-ed in the Columbia Specta-

tor (http://tiny.cc/h7juxz).

We stand in solidarity with students, faculty,

and staff seeking unfettered access to our libraries,

archives, and special collections.

We bear witness and will continue to work to

hold those in power accountable.

We invite colleagues across the Columbia

University Libraries to affirm their support for this

statement by signing onto this form: https://cryptpad

.fr/form/#/2/form/view/yNLzKfb6AX81bByNgwicS3

XEMy0FYQvbnRi8XPaZ9W0/.

79 (and counting!) signatories as of 12 May, 2024

Sources and further reading

American Library Association, “Core Values of Librar-

ianship,” 21 January, 2024,

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/adv

ocacy/intfreedom/corevalues.

Catlin, Samuel P. “The Campus Does Not Exist: How

Campus War Is Made,” Parapraxis:

https://www.parapraxismag

azine.com/articles/the-cam pus-does-not-exist.

Becher, Debbie, et. al. “Jewish faculty reject the weapon-

ization of antisemitism,” Columbia Spectator, 10 April, 2024,

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/10/jewish-

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faculty-reject-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism/.

Columbia Law Fellows/Honorees in Support of pro-

Palestine Students & Community Members, “Open Letter to Dean

Lester, President Shafik, and the broader Columbia Law School

and Columbia University community,” 18 April, 2024,

https://

docs.google.com/document/d/16F6Vx8KaVDyMK7GRIOlgN

S5l4 n FlyUss2xjbIELNYQA/mobilebasic.

Columbia University Libraries, “1968: Columbia in

Crisis,” Online exhibition:

https://exhibitions.library.columbia

.edu/exhibits/show/1968.

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, “2023 Gaza

Statement”:

https://librarianswithpalestine.org/2023-statement-on-

gaza/.

“Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in

Gaza,” October 2023 to January 2024:

https://librarianswithpal

estine.org/gaza-report-2024/.

United Nations’ Human Rights Council, “Anatomy of a

Genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of

human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,

Francesca Albanese,” 55

Session, 26 February – 5 April, 2024:

https://www.ohc hr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5573-

report-special-rapporteur-situation-human-rights-palestinian.

https://cu-librarians-free-palestine.cargo.site/

Statement by the

Independent Student

Workers of Columbia

University*

(May 29, 2024)

On April 30, the NYPD invaded our campus

for a second time, inflicting unprecedented violence on

our students and community members. They did so at

the behest of the Columbia administration, Board of

Trustees, and powerful individuals unrelated to our

community. In direct response, hundreds of student

workers at Columbia coalesced to take action. In spite

of our contractual obligations, in spite of the limita-

tions of end-of-term labor actions, we came together

and forged a strategy forward to tell Columbia: there

is no threat, no contract, no suppression that will keep

us from standing up for what is right and just.

We formed the Independent Student Workers

at Columbia, a rank-and-file group of teaching assis-

tants, researchers, graders, and instructors of record.

On May 6, 2024, we announced the start of a sickout.

A sickout, for those unfamiliar, is a labor action in

which workers call in sick as a means to disrupt the

functioning of their employer’s business. On May 24,

2024, after two and a half weeks of successful labor

action, we concluded the sickout.

We called this sickout because we were sick of

Columbia. We were sick of the administration’s rep-

rehensible treatment of student-protesters. We were

sick of the militarization of our campus. We were sick

of the University’s complicity and investment in

genocide and apartheid. We called the sickout to de-

mand amnesty for those facing disciplinary action for

their participation in pro-Palestinian protest, including

fired employees, and to demand the immediate and

permanent removal of the NYPD from campus.

From the onset of the sickout, hundreds of

graduate and undergraduate student-workers, faculty,

and staff joined our movement to withhold labor. To-

gether, we refused to submit grades, provide service

work, or otherwise contribute to the administration’s

attempts to conduct business as usual. Through our

combined efforts, we withheld over 6000 grades across

at least 45 different departments. The administration

knows this well, even as they desperately try to divert

public attention from the impact of these concerted

actions.

Success, however, stems not only from what

we interrupt, but also from what we gain. So, what did

we gain from this action?

Over two and a half weeks, we saw numerous

suspensions lifted, and watched as the NYPD slinked

off campus. While we have not yet won total amnesty

nor the permanent removal of the NYPD, the victories

so far reflect the strength of our movement. Our mes-

sage is clear: if Columbia does not resolve these

demands, we will be back in the Fall. If we have learnt

anything through years of labor organizing at Colum-

bia, it is how to strike and how to win – with or with-

out union protections. Indeed, as pressure mounted

with our concerted action, we protected each other

from threats of retaliation, and watched as the adminis-

tration flinched.

We claim these victories alongside our faculty,

staff, and undergraduate allies at Barnard and Colum-

bia. Through these weeks, we have gained a robust

alliance with these different constituencies that make

up our campus community. Indeed, in the previous

three weeks, faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate

students came together on short notice to launch the

largest coordinated labor action on campus since the

Fall 2021 SWC strike. Our sickout coincided with the

first ever faculty and staff service strike, while under-

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graduates amplified both actions with letters to depart-

ment chairs, deans, and university officials. Our sick-

out was but one of a wave of actions on campus. This

the administration would be wise not to forget.

We gained, too, hundreds of new organizers.

As the sickout took off, nearly 200 new graduate and

undergraduate students and student-workers volun-

teered to organize their departments and friends in the

name of divestment and justice. The political activa-

tion engendered by the sickout will carry us far. As we

chant at our rallies and pickets, we will always stand

up and fight back. This, too, the university would be

wise not to forget.

Though the sickout has ended, we will all re-

member why we fell ill in the first place. Some became

sick the moment they learned of the Nakba and of

Columbia’s investment in the settler-colonial state of

Israel. Others fell ill this past fall, when the University

banned SJP and JVP and began to suspend student-

activists. Hundreds caught the sickness on April 18,

when the NYPD flooded East Butler Lawn and ar-

rested peaceful activists en masse for the first time

since 1968.

Many more fell ill on the evening of April 30.

We fell ill when the administration locked down cam-

pus. We fell ill when pigs in riot gear created a milita-

rized zone that stretched for blocks, preventing wit-

nesses and journalists from documenting police bru-

tality. We fell ill when the NYPD kettled us and threat-

ened us on the streets outside our own university;

when they threw our friends to the ground and arrested

our colleagues for as little as calling for an EMT; when

they prevented injured students from accessing medi-

cal care; when a bullet ripped through the air inside of

Hind’s Hall, fired by some careless or idiotic cop.

We fell ill because when our students cried out

in protest – in an earnest plea for humanity – the ad-

ministration ignored them, then threatened them, sus-

pended them, tried to corral them into designated free-

speech zones, and finally sicced the NYPD on them.

This we will not forget.

When student-activists set up the first encamp-

ment on the morning of April 17, they helped set off an

international student movement. Just as they had mo-

deled their encampment on those that had come before,

the Gaza Solidarity Encampment became a model for

protests that would rise up after. In other words, these

student-activists helped set a precedent for a wave of

conscientious protests.

When Shafik called the police on those same

students the next day, she established another prece-

dent – one in which police violence became an accept-

able response to student activism. University adminis-

trators across the country followed her example, and

police violence toward students escalated rapidly.

On April 30, the Baroness set yet another dan-

gerous precedent by inviting and then lauding the

invasion of our campus by the NYPD, whose officers,

like Shafik, are equal parts brutal and incompetent. She

and the Board of Trustees sought to make the occupa-

tion of college campuses by armed police the new

normal. They hoped to establish this new precedent in

which the specter of police violence looms ever pre-

sent. This is a direct threat not only to pro-Palestinian

activists, but to any organization and any group that

speaks against the administration, and indeed to any

student at all. This, too, we will not forget.

The administration has worked hard to make us

feel disempowered and isolated as individuals. But as

the Gaza Solidarity Encampment has demonstrated, as

the faculty and staff service strike has demonstrated,

and as our sickout has demonstrated, we are powerful

together.

We conclude this sickout in a moment of

strength and of hope. We conclude this sickout em-

boldened by our successes and poised for future act-

ions. We remain in solidarity with our students, our

faculty, and staff. Though campus has emptied for the

summer, we will be back – all of us, together, un-

daunted, in the Fall. We will continue to mobilize and

organize until then. On College Walk, in the streets of

Morningside Heights, in dorm rooms and classrooms,

in administrative buildings, in libraries and dining

halls, we will be back, and we will continue our strug-

gle for collective liberation until all halls are Hind’s

Hall – until we are all free.

https://cuapartheiddivest.substack.com/p/until-all-halls-are-

hinds-hall

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[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release issued by the

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human

Rights (OHCHR) on July 19, 2024. It can be seen online at:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/gaza-killing-h

ind-rajab-andher-family-war-crime-too-many-warn-experts.]

Gaza: Killing of Hind Rajab

and Her Family – a War Crime

Too Many, Warn Experts

GENEVA (19 July 2024) – The killing of five-

year old Hind Rajab, her family and two paramedics

may amount to a war crime, independent experts*

warned today, denouncing Israeli claims that its troops

were not in the area at the time as “unacceptable.”

They urged an immediate halt to the attacks

against the civilian population in Gaza, which have

already killed more than 38,000 Palestinians, including

13,000 children, warning that the systemic nature of

the attacks may amount to a crime against humanity.

“The absence of proper investigation and

accountability, more than five months after the tragic

killing of Hind and six other members of her family

trapped in a car which came under Israeli fire in Gaza

is deeply troubling and may in itself amount to a

violation of the right to life,” the experts said.

Two paramedics from the Palestinian Red

Crescent Society were also killed when their ambu-

lance came under Israeli fire while attempting to save

Hind’s family. Audio recordings of calls between Hind

and emergency services suggest that she was the only

survivor in the car before she was also killed.

Recent forensic analysis of the crime scene

offers compelling evidence about the location of the

family’s car stranded in the line of sight of an Israeli

tank and how it was shot at from very close range

using a type of weapon that can only be attributed to

the Israeli forces.

“The brutality of these killings seem to illus-

trate how reckless the army has been in its Gaza cam-

paign: all instances of extrajudicial killing must be

duly investigated and accounted for,” the experts said.

“Hind’s family, like many others in Gaza, had

been forcibly displaced multiple times since Israel’s

military operations in the strip,” the experts said.

“They were shot dead while fleeing the neighbourhood

of Tal Al-Hawa seeking safety, in what seems to be

part of a broader pattern of indiscriminate killings of

civilians attempting to find shelter and escape the

fighting in Gaza upon so-called ‘evacuation’ orders by

the Israeli military.”

“These killings are not isolated cases,” the ex-

perts said. “We are extremely troubled by the pattern

of apparent indiscriminate and targeted attacks against

civilians in Gaza, including on locations used for hu-

manitarian assistance or to shelter IDPs,” they said.

“The firing of heavy-calibre projectiles at a humanitar-

ian zone near an office of the International Committee

of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, killing 22 displaced

civilians, and most recently the attacks on IDP tents in

Al Mawasi area, on Ash Shati' Refugee Camp, and on

the UNRWA Abu Oreiban school sheltering IDPs,

among others, killing nearly 320 Palestinians, half of

them women and children, have reinforced the fact that

there is no safe place in Gaza” the experts said. “Such

attacks amount to grave violations of international

humanitarian law, must be promptly and reliably in-

vestigated, and should be severely punished.

“The willful or indiscriminate killing of pro-

tected persons, including civilians, medical personnel

and humanitarian workers, amount to war crimes, and

if systematic, crimes against humanity, and should be

prevented at all costs,” the experts warned. “We re-

main deeply troubled by the total impunity and appar-

ent lack of investigations, and prevention of these

crimes. This is all the more worrisome in the context

of the recent order from the International Court of

Justice for Israel to take immediate measures to protect

Gaza’s population from the risk of genocide,” the

experts said.

“The Government of Israel and its armed forces

must take immediate measures to protect the right to

life of all protected persons in Gaza, including women

and children” they said.

They urged the Israeli Government to allow

access of independent experts, including international

human rights monitoring bodies into Gaza to ensure

that all violations of international law committed since

the beginning of the Israeli military operation in Gaza

are credibly investigated. The experts repeated their

offer of technical assistance.

Renewing calls for an immediate end to the

bloodshed and grave violations of international human

rights and humanitarian law, including the uncondi-

tional release of all hostages, the experts urged the

international community to ensure accountability for

those responsible and protection and urgent assistance

for the population in Gaza.

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*The Experts:

Morris Tidball-Binz, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, sum-

mary or arbitrary executions;

Ben Saul, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of

human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering ter-

rorism;

Dorothy Estrada Tanck (Chair), Laura Nyirinkindi (Vice-

Chair), Claudia Flores, Ivana Krstiæ, and Haina Lu, Working

group on discrimination against women and girls;

Paula Gaviria Betancur, Special Rapporteur on the human rights

of internally displaced persons;

Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women

and girls, its causes and consequences.

The Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts and

Working Groups are part of what is known as the Special Proce-

dures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the larg-

est body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system,

is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and

monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country sit-

uations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special

Procedures’ experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN

staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are indepen-

dent from any government or organization and serve in their

individual capacity.

[Editor’s Note: On April 25, 2024, the advocacy group Palestine

Legal* filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of some Columbia

University students just after the NYPD arrested Gaza encamp-

ment protesters. The complaint alleges anti-Palestinian discrimi-

nation and harassment by fellow students, professors, and/or

Columbia administrators. The following article is from the Pal-

estinian Legal website at:

https://palestinelegal.org/news/2024/4

/25/columbia-students-file-civil-rights-complaint-after-nypd-arr

ests-national-guard-threat.]

Columbia Students File Civil

Rights Complaint

April 25, New York, NY – Today, Palestine

Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. De-

partment of Education’s Office for Civil Rights

(OCR), demanding an investigation into Columbia

University’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinian

students and their allies, including by inviting NYPD

officers in riot gear – for the first time in decades – to

arrest over a hundred students peacefully protesting

Israel’s genocide last week.

The complaint comes one day after Columbia

suggested the National Guard could be brought in to

remove student protesters – implying state violence

could be used on campus.

The complaint alleges how, for more than six

months, Palestinian students, Arabs, Muslims, students

perceived to be Palestinian, and students associated

with or advocating for Palestinians, have been the tar-

get of extreme anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islam-

ophobic harassment, including receiving multiple

death threats, being harassed for wearing keffiyehs or

hijab, doxed, stereotyped, being treated differently by

high-ranking administrators including Columbia Uni-

versity President Minouche Shafik, an attack with a

chemical agent that led to at least 10 students requiring

hospitalization and dozens of others, including a Pal-

estinian student, seeking medical attention, and more.

Palestine Legal is representing four students

and the student group Columbia Students for Justice in

Palestine (SJP), who have all been the target of anti-

Palestinian discrimination and harassment by fellow

students, professors, and/or Columbia administrators.

“As a Palestinian student, I’ve been harassed,

doxxed, shouted down, and discriminated against by

fellow students and professors – simply because of my

identity and my commitment to advocating for my own

rights and freedoms,” said Maryam Alwan. “I’m hor-

rified at the way Columbia has utterly failed to protect

me from racism and abuse, but beyond that, the univer-

sity has also played a role in this repression by having

me arrested and suspended for peacefully protesting

Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The violent repression we’re

facing as peaceful anti-war protesters is appalling.

Palestinian students at Columbia deserve justice and

accountability, not only for Israel’s decades-long op-

pression and violence against our people, but for the

racism and discrimination we’ve experienced here on

Columbia’s campus.”

Columbia has actively contributed to pervasive

racism and discrimination against Palestinian students

on campus, causing both mental and physical harm.

For example, students have been arrested, assaulted,

suspended, locked out of campus and their classes,

forced to seek medical attention, and forced to drop

classes and delay their own graduation.

After bringing NYPD officers in riot gear to

violently arrest students peacefully protesting Israel’s

genocide in Gaza, university leaders alarmingly threat-

ened that the National Guard would be brought in to

forcibly remove the peaceful students from their own

campus. This disturbing threat of military violence is

gravely concerning. Columbia University has a respon-

sibility to protect all of its students – including Pales-

tinians and their supporters – and should not threaten

police or military violence to attack or intimidate them.

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“Columbia’s vicious crackdown on student

protests calling for Palestinian freedom amidst an

ongoing genocide should alarm us all. Students have

always been at the forefront of the most pressing social

issues of the day,” said Palestine Legal Staff Attorney

Sabiya Ahamed. “We urge federal civil rights officials

to do what Columbia has disgracefully failed to: ensure

the rights of Palestinian and allied students are pro-

tected at a moment when their voices are most essen-

tial.”

The discrimination, intimidation, harassment,

stereotyping, disparate treatment, and racial profiling

described in the complaint are not isolated instances

but are the product of both deep-rooted, dehumanizing

bigotry against Palestinians and decades-long system-

atic efforts by anti-Palestinian groups and their allies

to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights on college

campuses.

Palestine Legal has documented trends in re-

pression based on the over 2200 incidents of suppres-

sion of Palestinian rights advocacy the organization

responded to between 2014 and 2022, many involving

harassment and censorship attempts by university ad-

ministrations and right-wing organizations aimed at

intimidating Palestinians and their supporters into si-

lence and inaction. Since October 7

alone, the organi-

zation has received reports of over 1,800 incidents,

over five times the number we received in all of 2022,

reflecting an exponential rise in anti-Palestinian rep-

ression across the U.S.

In March 2024, Palestine Legal, together with

NYCLU sued Columbia over its suspension of SJP and

Jewish Voice for Peace for their peaceful protest.

UPDATE: The Department of Education informed Palestine Legal

that the Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into

Columbia University after students filed a federal civil rights com-

plaint for extreme anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic

harassment on campus. This comes less than 48 hours after Col-

umbia called in the NYPD to violently arrest dozens of peaceful

student protesters, with hundreds of police coming on campus,

some with guns drawn, using sledgehammers, batons, and flash-

bang explosives.

* Founded in 2012, Palestine Legal is an independent organization

dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people

in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. About the

complaint contact Danya Zituni at Palestine Legal

media@pal

estinelegal.org.

[Editor’s Note: The following is a Media Advisory released on

July 20,2024, by CUNY4Palestine (C4P), Within our Lifetime

(WOL Palestine), and National Students for Justice in Palestine

(NSJP). The Week of Rage was to begin on July 22, 2024.]

Call for a National Week of

Rage

We reject the smearing and caricature of

the Student Intifada by mass media and

continue to demand an immediate end to

our universities’ complicity in the Gaza

genocide.

New York, New York – On Monday, July 22,

CUNY4Palestine, Within Our Lifetime, and National

Students for Justice in Palestine call for a Week of

Rage to protest the filming of an FBI: Most Want-

ed episode at CUNY Queens College featuring a fic-

tionalized Gaza Solidarity Encampment scene, com-

plete with tents, a “chase and arrest” scene, and a

mock-explosion. This is a clear attempt to simulta-

neously demonize and profit from the Student Move-

ment against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in

Gaza. This episode deliberately obfuscates and under-

mines the concrete demands of the Student Intifada:

our universities must divest from settler colonialism

and genocide and cut all ties with Israeli academic

institutions.

In a recent email issued by Queens College, the

VP of Student Affairs claimed that the episode being

filmed on QC campus is about “climate” rather than

about Palestine. Whether or not the fictionalized en-

campment is framed around Palestine solidarity or

climate, the rental of the QC campus for this film shoot

is a clear attempt to simultaneously demonize and

profit from the student movement against the ongoing

genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. CUNY is obviously

attempting to capitalize off of recent Pro-Palestine en-

campments while ignoring and erasing Palestine.

Palestine, Stop Cop City, Indigenous Liberation, de-

militarization and climate – our struggle is one. This is

a slap in the face to all of our movements.

This exercise in copaganda comes as the

Zionist-imperialist genocide in Gaza enters its 290

day and as our comrades from the CCNY encampment

face ongoing criminalization – including felony charg-

es – for organizing in solidarity with the Palestinian

liberation struggle. The portrayal of the student en-

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campment by FBI: Most Wanted is designed not only

to manufacture consent for the brutal repression of our

movement for Palestinian liberation but to hasten the

expansion of fascist policing of the working-class,

Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities.

The media industry has a storied history of

working hand-in-hand with the police and military to

normalize and sensationalize the racist police state and

U.S. empire, glorifying agents of state repression as

heroes and further vilifying the state’s victims. We

understand corporate media to be the propaganda wing

of the capitalist-imperialist state. It is the media’s duty

to legitimize and mock the violent repression faced by

students and our broader communities at the hands of

both the state and the Zionist/fascist vigilantes it

enables.

The repression of our movements and commu-

nities will only be compounded by the construction of

more than 69 Cop City projects of varying sizes across

Turtle Island.* Under the guise of “training” and “de-

veloping security,” private corporations and capitalists

are pouring millions of dollars into these militarized

police training centers and programs nationally.

Queens itself is set to be the site of the latest cop city,

providing training for 18 police departments at the cost

of $225 million.

The malicious framing of this film shoot is

especially egregious in light of QC President Frank

Wu’s forcible shutdown of all but one entrance at QC

during the CCNY encampment, preventing further

protests from materializing. Wu has also called for

increased police presence at every QC student protest

for Palestinian liberation and against genocide. Back in

November, he called upon the NYPD to investigate the

Muslim Student Association (MSA) over social media

posts.

All of these actions culminate in a culture of

pro-cop, anti-Palestinian repression; President Wu has

shown that rather than protect his students, he will

defend the interests of the empire.

Instead of heeding our encampment’s Five

Demands to divest, boycott, demilitarize, and reinstate

a People’s CUNY, the CUNY administration has in-

vested millions more in “security,” refused FOIA re-

quests for disclosure of public records, and continued

to build relationships with Zionist institutions – all

while aiding and abetting the NYPD’s brutalization of

Palestine solidarity organizers city-wide.

In the face of the accelerating atrocities in Gaza

and rising fascist repression across Turtle Island, we

must continue to organize and mobilize for an end to

the genocide and for a free Palestine, from the river to

the sea. The more they try to silence us, the louder we

will be. Disclose, Divest, We Will Not Stop, We Will

Not Rest!

* ‘Turtle Island’ is the name for the lands now known as North

and Central America. It is a name used by some Indigenous

peoples who believe their land was formed on the back of a turtle.

Though regional versions exist, the core of this creation story

relates to a time when the planet was covered in water.

“I Can’t Sleep”*

by Paul Biggar,** Dec 14, 2023

I can’t sleep. I’m lying in bed every night, and

images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers

holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs drop-

ped on homes,

on hospitals,

on schools.

Tens of

thousands of dead,

in indiscriminate bombings.

Chil-

dren crying, pulling through rubble to find their fam-

ilies.

The inhumanity of the soldiers is unbearable.

They shoot civilians in the street,

imprison and torture

children,

and strip and humiliate innocent men.

But

the soldiers are having fun.

They’re posting to Tik-

Tok,

doing some war crimes,

then celebrating on

the beach.

I hate them. I hate them.

I can’t work. I code for five minutes before

their bodies come back. I must work, but who can do

a startup through a genocide, when 20,000 are dead,

when the Israeli-imposed starvation is setting in.

I try

though; the distraction is good for me.

I look at my colleagues – the founders, the in-

vestors, my network, my friends, my advisors. I’m

afraid to open their twitters. Each time I do, it’s a

roulette: is it business as usual – a new fundraise, the

latest in AI, a new model released. The blasé posts are

a relief. I can tell myself that they’re censored, afraid

to speak up about the genocide. Unable or not knowing

how to do it. That’s understandable.

The propaganda kills me. People I thought

were friends, were allies. So much humanity for those

killed on October 7, none for the people killed on the

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, or in November or December.

20,000

people, killed by deliberate, indiscriminate bombing.

None either for the people killed onOct. 6, 5,

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For the people massacred in 1948

and since. No

protest of the illegal occupation,

the illegal settle-

ments,

The razing of the villages

and the olive

groves.

They don’t exist to them; they didn’t happen.

Have they no questions about why two million

people live in Gaza and how they came to be there.

How Israel carefully controls the calories allowed into

Gaza,

keeping everyone starving. That Israel can turn

off the water,

can turn off the electricity.

That this

is something a country is able to do to a people. That

this is something a country is willing to do to a peo-

ple.

Is this what Israel is? The tech outpost, the U.S.

ally, the beacon of democracy in the Middle East? A

country that kills journalists

and writers in surgical

strikes.

That forces doctors away from ICU babies,

leaving them to die and rot in their incubators.

Whose

snipers shoot children and grannies in the head.

Seventy nine year old Hadiya Nassar was killed by an

Israeli sniper in December. Poet, writer, and professor

Refaat Alareer was killed by a missile which also kill-

ed his brother, his sister, and her four children.

When the cofounder of Hamas was nine years

old, his uncle was massacred by Israeli soldiers in the

Khan Yunis massacre, along with 274 other unarmed

Palestinians. He was shot in house-to-house searches.

Others were lined up and executed. How many Hamas’

are being created today.

When you read about the Holocaust and the

Nazis, you like to imagine you’d be the good guy.

You’d fight the Nazis, you’d free the concentration

camps. But apparently I wouldn’t. Apparently I would

have just sat there paralyzed, incapable of doing

anything about the genocide I see every day. Unable to

think of any way to help. All I can do is retweet and

protest and write a stupid blog post. I feel so stupid.

I wasn’t ready to see that my friends are

Brownshirts.

That they actively cheer on the geno-

cide.

The anger, the desire – the need even – for retri-

bution against innocent civilians. I wasn’t ready for my

friends being camp guards, party officials, propagan-

dists.

The propaganda is real, and organized,

and

obvious.

Posting about anti-semitism in universities

to cover indiscriminate bombing of civilians – have

you no shame. Repeating Israeli claims which have no

proof, and no credibility.

Keeping the discussion any-

where except on Palestinians being murdered in Gaza.

Denying the number of dead because the numbers are

reported by Hamas.

Of course, everyone is Hamas now. The child

ripped in two by an MK-84

is Hamas. The woman

screaming for her sister, digging at the rubble – she’s

Hamas. The orphaned nine year old, now the sole par-

ent of her four year old brother. Both are Hamas.

Death and trauma stalk Palestinian children.

Sometimes I work out how many people my

taxes have killed.

Intrusive thoughts. Maybe they’re

used for roads or healthcare, but maybe I bought a

bomb last year and it razed a city block in Khan Yunis.

Maybe it killed 50 people. Maybe one killed 50 peo-

ple.

My investors keep posting. How unsafe the

kids feel at Harvard.

Railing against “From the river

to the sea” as they conveniently omit “Palestine will be

free.”

Cancelling Tiktok for teaching the kids history

instead of U.S. and Israeli propaganda.

“Members of

the Haganah paramilitary group escort Palestinians

expelled from Haifa after Jewish forces took control in

April 1948 (AFP).” Middle East Eye

Anything to keep your eyes off the rubble that

Gaza has become.

The trail of tears to an empty

desert, bombed and shot as they go.

Anything to

avoid their own culpability in this genocide. They are

Hess. They post Israeli flags on twitter as Israel drops

bombs on Gaza. They protest a cease-fire. THEY

PROTEST A FUCKING CEASE-FIRE.

I don’t know what to do, but I know these are

not my people. Who can work with people whitewash-

ing genocide. Are we supposed to pretend it’s business

as usual as we send our friends’ intros, frolic at confer-

ences, discuss monetization strategy.

To Ed, Erica, Michael, and especially Matt,

we’re done.

I’ll never pitch you again, never ask for

help, never send intros or recommend you. I’m done

with Boldstart, and DCVC, and Harrison Metal, and

Redpoint. (I’m also done with Bessemer

and

Sequoia

and First Round.

)

I’m ashamed that these are some of my biggest

supporters over the years, the people who invested in

me, twice, the people who helped, who advised. I can-

not work with the people whitewashing a killing, the

people who know it’s happening, and who cover for it,

who support the IDF and the U.S. administration

which allows it, which funds it.

Oct. 7 was an atrocity, and so was every day

since then. 20,000 Palestinians have been killed by in-

discriminate, deliberate Israeli bombs.

Atrocities happened long beforeOct. 7 as well.

The occupation was no secret. Hundreds of Palestin-

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ians killed each year since the Nakba. The rest kept

under the Israeli boot, stripped of their rights and

homes and dignity.

Their politicians tweet about Palestinians like

they aren’t human. They discuss them like their lives

don’t matter. They call them “animals.” They have

killed thousands of Palestinians, and give every indi-

cation that they will continue the genocide.

They are saying it out loud.

I can see it, and

so could Ed and Michael and Matt and Erica. They

simply choose not to.

Pro-Israeli investors have created a culture of

fear in tech where supporters of Palestinian freedom

feel unable to raise their voices. I have spoken to many

people in tech who are afraid that if they speak up,

they’ll be unable to raise their next round, and lose 5-

10 years of work on their venture, for their families

and for their employees.

We must break the silence around the genocide

in Gaza. I know this is a big ask. I know there are sig-

nificant risks involved, and that’s not your fault. But

all the same, we cannot continue to be complicit in this

genocide.

Above all, name it. Say publicly what you see

happening, and say that what Israel and the U.S. are

doing is wrong. Feel silenced? Say that!

Just like most in tech made “Black Lives Mat-

ter” statements in 2020, come out and say #Free-Pale-

stine. Put a banner on your website.

Secondly, don’t make money for investors who

whitewash genocide, namely partners at Boldstart,

DCVC, Harrison Metal, Redpoint, Bessemer, Sequoia,

or First Round.

Tech workers: Don’t work for companies who

take funding from these firms. If you already work

there, contact management and the founders, ask dif-

ficult questions in all-hands, anonymously if you need

to. Threaten to get a new job – actually do get a new

job.

Founders: don’t take money from these firms.

If you already have, contact your partner to register

your discomfort, and ask them to divest. Prevent them

from investing in later rounds.

Attend a protest. Find your local (U.S.) Jewish

Voice For Peace or international protest.

Call your representative and senator.

Follow Palestinian journalists and sources to

follow what’s happening in Gaza through their eyes:

1) Motaz Azaiza, https://www.instagram.com/motaz

_aza iza/,

2) Hind Khoudary, https://www.instagram.com/hind

khoudary/,

3) Bisan Owda, https://www.instagram.com/wizard

_bisan1/,

4) Plestia Alaqad, https://www.instagram.com/byple

stia/,

5) Al Jarzeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/,

6) Mohamad Safa, https://x.com/mhdksafa,

7) sippin on that https://x.com/vivafalastin,

8) missfalasteenia, https://x.com/missfalsteenia,

9) Nour Naim, https://x.com/NourNaim88,

10) Eye On Palestine, https://www.instagram.com/eye

.on.palestine.

Finally, please share this post or my post on

Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Linkedin.

Notes

1. See for example here (

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest /news

/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-

wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/) or here (https://www.pbs.org

/newshour/show/people-in-gaza-describe-living-through-

bombings-with-no-way-to-escape/), but hundreds of apartment

blocks were in Gaza before its destruction (https://www.nbcnews

.com/news/world/satellite-images-devastation-gaza-israel-air

strikes-rcna119774). +972 Magazine (https://www.972mag.com

/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/) re-

ports that Israel has “A concerted policy to bomb family homes,”

and details many accounts from those whose homes were bombed

and families killed.

2. As of Nov 11, Israel had destroyed over half of hospitals

(

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/14/gaza-unlawful-israeli-

hospital-strikes-worsen-health-crisis.) in Gaza.

3. Israel bombed a UN school on Nov 19, killing “dozens” of wo-

men and children (

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/18/world /gaza-

school-strike-video/index.html) sheltering there.

4. The official death count (

https://apnews.com/article/israel-

hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-594708203 08b

31f1faf73c703400b033) on Dec 13 is 18,600, including over 5000

children. however, officials have lost the ability to count.

The accuracy of the Gaza Ministry of Health’s reporting

of death tolls has been shown to be accurate by recent studies

when looking at the 2008, 2014, and 2015 wars. U.S. medical

journal Lancet (

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article

/PIIS0140-6736(23)02713-7/fulltext) reviewed and affirms the

numbers provided in the current war.

“These figures are professionally done and have proven

to be reliable,” said Omar Shakir (

https://apnews.com/article/isr

ael-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-5947082

0308b31f1faf73c703400b033), Human Rights Watch’s Israel and

Palestine director.

5. Even President Biden has called the attacks “indiscriminate,”

(

https://apnews.com/article/biden-israel-hamas-oct-7-44c4229

d4c1270d9cfa484b664a22071) though the death toll and pictures

of a destroyed Gaza demonstrate that directly.

6. Example (https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-

buried-rubble-airstrikes-89c0e8d0934d573d94d2fbfeba44d933).

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7. Israeli soldiers have been recorded shooting civilians who pose

no threat, including children (https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/we

st-bank-palestinian-boys-shot-1.7044430) and a mentally disabled

man (https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/middleeast/mentally-disa

bled-man-shot-west-bank/index.html). They even shot an Israeli

civilian (https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/middleeast/cast leman-

israel-jerusalem-hamas-shot-backlash-intl/) in Jerusalem, who was

unarmed and had surrendered, falsely believed to be Hamas:

“When the soldiers saw him I’m assuming they thought

he was a terrorist. But then when Yuval realized that that’s what

they’re thinking, he opened his jacket to show he had nothing

underneath, and got down on his knees. He opened his hands, so

they could see he had nothing in his hands,” said Itkovich.

“He was shouting in Hebrew. He was shouting ‘I’m an

Israeli.’ He threw his wallet, his identification, on the way so they

could see he’s an Israeli. And they just shot him. They gunned

him down,” he said.

8. This well-referenced Human Rights Watch article (

https://www

.hrw.org/news/2023/11/29/why-does-israel-have-so-many-pales

tinians-detention-and-available-swap) (see similar on CNN

(

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/middleeast/palestinian-

prisoners-israeli-judicial-system-west-bank-mime-intl/) and NBC

(

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-palestinian-hamas-

prisoner-release-gaza-west-bank-rcna127353)) contains so many

harrowing descriptions of shocking treatment of prisoners that you

should read the whole thing. These excerpts barely do it justice:

As of November 1, Israeli authorities held nearly 7,000

Palestinians from the occupied territory in detention for alleged

security offenses.

Far more Palestinians have been arrested since the

October 7 attacks in Israel than have been released in the last

week. Among those being held are dozens of women and scores

of children.

The majority have never been convicted of a crime,

including more than 2,000 of them being held in administrative

detention, in which the Israeli military detains a person without

charge or trial. Such detention can be renewed indefinitely based

on secret information, which the detainee is not allowed to see.

Administrative detainees are held on the presumption that they

might commit an offense at some point in the future.

More than 1,400 complaints of torture, including painful

shackling, sleep deprivation and exposure to extreme temperatures

[...]

[...] in 22 cases of detention of Palestinian children they

documented in 2023, 64 percent said they were physically abused

and 73 % were strip searched by Israeli forces while in detention.

Prisoners released by the IDF in November report being

beaten:

Na’im told CBS News (

https://www.cbsnews.com/news

/Israel-hamas-palestinian-prisoners-describe-imprisonment-hopes-

for-future/). “Any new prisoner was coming in, he looked beaten

up. We requested medicine or other stuff and they refused to give

it to us.”

“He kept beating me for eight minutes with a stick and

without caring where it lands,” Mohammed Nazal told Al Jazeera

(

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/3/how-a-palestinian-

teens-release-exposed-israeli-mistreatment-of-prisoners) of how

an Israeli guard tortured him.

“I was covering my head. The stick was aimed here, at

my head, but my hands would receive the blow.”

Ahmed Al-Salaima told PBS (

https://www.youtube.com

/watch) “After October 7, they started hitting female prisoners.

And they started to reduce the quantity of the food. There were 9

of us in the room and they gave us two meals in small quantities.

Before entering the jail, I was 158 pounds, but now I’m 121

pounds.”

PBS has more testimony (

https://www.youtube.com/wa

tch) by released prisoners on their treatment.

New testimony from Gazan boys (

https://www.aljazeera

.com/features/2023/12/12/like-we-were-lesser-humans-gaza-boys-

men-recall-israeli-arrests-torture) captured on December 5 shows

the torture continues. It is even described to politicians (https://x

.com/ragipsoylu/status/1724802180555985287) who inspect the

prisons.

9. The IDF captured (

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/middle

east/gaza-israeli-soldiers-detained-men-intl/index.html) a group

of men, stripped them to their underwear, blindfolded them and

put them in trucks. The IDF later admitted (

https://www.haaretz

.com/israel-news/2023-12-10/ty-article-live/israels-ground-off

ensive-in-gaza-deepens-as-arab-eu-leaders-push-for-a-cease-

fire/0000018c-5187-df2f-adac-ffaf03700000) that 85-90% of

these men had no connection to Hamas, and provided no proof

about the remaining 10-15%.

10. This compilation thread (

https://x.com/muhammadshehad2

/status/1719679650794762643) by Palestinian writer and Euro-

Med Human Rights Monitor Comms Chief Muhammad Shehada

(

https://x.com/muhammadshehad2) shows social media of IDF

soldiers torturing prisoners, followed by Israeli civilians mocking

and memeing about it. This was confirmed (

https://x.com/muha

mmad shehad2) by other media.

11. From ABC (https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory

/amid-outcry-gaza-tactics-videos-soldiers-acting-maliciously-10

612152: (page no longer available)) (Same article at The Hill at:

https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-amid-outcry-

over-gaza-tactics-videos-of-soldiers-acting-maliciously-create-

new-headache-for-israel/).

In one, soldiers ride bicycles through rubble. In another,

a soldier has moved Muslim prayer rugs into a bathroom. In

another, a soldier films boxes of lingerie found in a Gaza home.

Yet another shows a soldier trying to set fire to food and water

supplies that are scarce in Gaza.

12. This isn’t the only video (

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-

east/israeli-army-in-west-bank-uses-palestinian-detainee-as-

human-shield/3049924) I’ve seen of Palestinians being used as

human shields by the IDF in the occupied Palestinian territories,

but I’m trying to restrict most of the references in this piece to

legacy media sites.

13. Example:

https://www.tiktok.com/@hussainbol37/video/7300

293728646728992.

14. This CNN chart (https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/middleeast

/palestinian-israeli-deaths-gaza-dg/index.html) updates as the

death toll increases.

15. Israel blockaded Gaza (

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world

/u-n-stops-delivery-of-food-and-supplies-to-gaza-as-com

munications-blackout) from receiving food after October 7,

(https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_en try/defense-minister-

announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/)

though a small amount (about 20 trucks a day, for a region that

needs 100 trucks a day for subsistence) was allowed through

during the Humanitarian pause. Gazans on the ground (

https://

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www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/12/photos-israel-is-bombing-

starving-palestin ians-in-southern-gaza) report they are starving.

16. ByOct. 17, over 3,000 Gazans had been killed by Israel

(

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestin

ians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-

06). By Dec 12, that number had risen to over 18,000.

17. Even President Biden, a self described Zionist and friend of

Israel, has referred to Israel’s actions as “indiscriminate bombing

((

https://apnews.com/article/biden-israel-hamas-oct-7-44c4229

d4c1270d9cfa484b664a22071).”

18. Labib Dmaidi was shot dead on October 6 by Israeli settlers.

(

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/1/my-son-was-

killed-on-october-6-there-was-no-hamas). Dozens have been kill-

ed each year, ((https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/middleeast/pal

estinian-israeli-deaths-gaza-dg/index.html) including in 2014

when thousands were killed.

19. The Deir Yassin massacre (

https://www.aljazeera.com/news

/2023/4/9/the-deir-yassin-massacre-why-it-still-matters-75-years-

later) in 1948 was committed by the forces that would become the

IDF, in which at least 107 people were massacred.

“Women and children were stripped, lined up, photo-

graphed, and then slaughtered by automatic firing and survivors

have told of even more incredible bestialities,” the report said.

“Those who were taken prisoners were treated with degrading

brutality.”

This was part of the Nakba, (

https://arabcenterdc.org

/resource/the-nakbas-coming-stages-patterns-process-and-

predictability/) in which 15,000 Palestinians were killed and

750,000 were forced to flee.

20. Israel has been deemed to violate many of the UN Conven-

tions (

https://itisapartheid.org/Documents_pdf_etc/IsraelViolatio

nsInternationalLaw.pdf) that were specifically drawn up after

World War II to prevent the Nazis’ actions from happening again.

Occupying land annexed by force (including Gaza and the West

Bank) is illegal.

21. Israel supports (

https://www.btselem.org/publications/20211

1_state_business) “settlements” (https://www.cnn.com/2017/02

/01/middleeast/settlements-explainer/index.html) to expand pos-

session (

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-

ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers) of Palestinian territory, despite

being against international law (

https://www.middleeasteye.net

/news/gross-violation-israels-occupation-west-bank-illegal-new-

un-report-finds). The settlers (https://www.reuters.com/world/mid

dle-east/france-weighing-sanctions-address-west-bank-settler-

violence-2023-12-11/) are frequently violent, (https://en.wikiped

ia.org/wiki/Hilltop_Youth) and they are often armed or accompa-

nied by the IDF (

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article

/2023/10/23/israel-hamas-war-settlers-speed-up-eviction-of-

palestinian-bedouins-in-west-bank-hills-amid-war_61957

80_4.html). There are now 500,000 settlers in the West Bank.

22. During the Nakba, pre-Israeli militias razed villages (

https://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_depopulated

_during_the_1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war) to prevent

the returns of Palestinians to their land.

From 1947 to 1949, some 750,000 (

https://www.aljaze

era.com/news/2022/5/15/nakba-mapping-palestinian-villages-

destroyed-by-israel-in-1948) Palestinian Arabs were made ref-

ugees, and more than 500 Palestinian towns and villages were

depopulated, most through direct attacks by Zionist militias that

later became the Israeli Army.

23. From the Yale Review of International Studies: Israel’s Cam-

paign Against Palestinian Olive Trees (

http://yris.yira.org/gl obal-

issue/6018). Remarkably, olive trees contribute to 14% of Pales-

tine’s economy. Beyond the monetary value, olive trees have be-

come symbolic of Palestinians attachment to their land. Since

1967, more than 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been il-

legally uprooted by the Israeli authority. In August 2021 alone,

more than 9,000 have been removed.

24. Gaza is a tiny strip of land that was occupied by Egypt in

1948, and so was one of the only safe places for refugees from the

Nakba to go. After 750,000 fled from Israeli massacres throughout

Palestine, over 200,000 settled in Gaza.

25. From The Guardian in 2011 (

https://www.theguardiancom

/world/2012/oct/17/israeli-military-calorie-limit-gaza):

The Israeli military made precise calculations of Gaza’s

daily calorie needs to avoid malnutrition during a blockade im-

posed on the Palestinian territory between 2007 and mid-2010,

according to files the defense ministry released on Wednesday

under a court order.

26. Israel controls the water in Palestine (

https://www.btselem

.org/publications/202305_parched). West Bank Palestinians get

access to only a third of the water that Israelis can use, and only

82% of the WHO recommended minimum.

From Amnesty International (

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest

/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/) in 2017:

In Gaza, some 90-95% of the watersupply is

contaminated and unfit for human consump-

tion. Israel does not allow water to be trans-

ferred from the West Bank to Gaza, and Gaza’s

only fresh water resource, the Coastal Aquifer,

is insufficient for the needs of the population

and is being increasingly depleted by over-ex-

traction and contaminated by sewage and sea-

water infiltration.

From Human Rights Watch (

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11

/16/israeli-authorities-cutting-water-leading-public-health-crisis-

gaza):

After October 7, the Israeli government shut off

the pipes that supply Gaza with water.

It has since only resumed piping water to some parts of

southern Gaza while some water has entered via Egypt, but it’s

not reaching everyone and is not nearly enough to meet the needs

of Gaza’s population, requiring many to rely on the local water

supply. According to the UN however, more than 96 percent of

the water supply in Gaza is “unfit for human consumption.”

27. Israel controls access to fuel in Gaza, as it has for two de-

cades.

From Al Jazeera (

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/25

/gaza-is-out-of-fuel-out-of-time-under-israels-bombardment):

Israel classed diesel as a “dual use” good that

can be used for military as well as civilian pur-

poses. Therefore, it is heavily controlled or re-

stricted.

However, Israel wrote the rule book on “kosher fuel” for

Gaza, a highly complex system of approvals and monitoring put

in place to guarantee that “civilian use” fuel flows only to Gaza’s

sole power plant.

28. From Times of Israel (

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog

_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-

power-food-or-fuel/):

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“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip.

There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is

closed,” [Defense Minister] Gallant says following an assessment

at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba. “We are fighting

human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he adds.

29. The Khan Yunis massacre (

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh

an_Yunis_massacre) was documented in Footnotes In Gaza

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footnotes_in_Gaza) by Joe Sacca,

containing many first-person accounts, including a conversation

in the foreword with Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi (

https://en.wikipedia

.org/wiki/Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantisi) [see note 2], co-founder of

Hamas (along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin). He stated “I still

remember the wailing and tears of my father over his brother. I

couldn’t sleep for many months after that … . It left a wound in

my heart that can never heal. They planted hatred in our hearts.”

30. At least 68 journalists (

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of

_journalists_killed_in_the_2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war)

have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Reporters Without

Borders claims Israel is “eradicating” (

https://rsf.org/en/israel-

eradicating-journalism-gaza-ten-reporters-killed-three-days-48-

start-war) journalism in Gaza.

31. The killing of Refaat al-Areer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

/Refaat_Alareer) on December 7, a well-known Palestinian poet

and writer. It is alleged (https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article

/6014) that he was targeted in a surgical strike which destroyed

only the apartment at which he was staying. The Israeli missile

strike also killed his brother, his sister, and her four children.

32. Israeli soldiers forced doctors and staff to leave Al Nasr

hospital on November 10. Two weeks later (

https://www.nbc

news.com/news/world/abandoned-babies-found-decomposing-

gaza-hospital-evacuated-rcna127533), 5 babies were found de-

composing in the ruins of the hospital.

33. Hadiya Nassar, a 79 year old Palestinian woman, was shot by

an (

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/older-than-israel-elderly-

palestinian-woman-in-viral-video-killed-in-gaza/) Israeli sniper.

Israeli soldiers have also been seen killing children and elderly

men (

https://www.middleeasteye.net /news/israel-palestine-war-

army-kills-elderly-taking-pr-photo-safe-corridor).

During the Great March of Return, Israeli snipers shot

over 6000 unarmed civilians (

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest

/campaigns/2018/10/gaza-great-march-of-return/), killing at least

150. The testimony of the soldiers (https://www.haaretz.com

/israel-news/2020-03-06/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/42-knees-

in-one-day-israeli-snipers-open-up-about-shooting-gaza-pro-

testers/0000017f-f2da-d497-a1ff-f2dab2520000) is horrifying, as

was a video shared of an onlooker cheering (https://www.the

guardian.com/world/2018/apr/10/video-appears-show-cheers-

israeli-sniper-shoots-palestinian). This has been happening a long

time, such as this story from 2005 (

https://www.theguardian.com

/world/2005/jun/28/comment.israelandthepalestinians).

34. Nazis

35. I recommend reading the report from Jewish Currents, calling

the invasion a genocide (

https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-

case-of-genocide). It has also been called a genocide by the

International Federation for Human Rights (

https://www.fidh.org

/IMG/pdf/fidh_resolution_on_israel_s_unfolding_crime_of

_genocide_and_other_crimes_in_gaza_and_against_the_palesti

nian_people.pdf), Director of the New York office of the High

Commission for Human Rights Craig Mokhiber (

https://www.doc

umentcloud.org/documents/24103463-craig-mokhiber-

resignation-letter).

36. Lee Fang and Jack Poulson uncovered the pro-Israel informa-

tion machine (

https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-in

formation), a collaboration between pro-Israeli investors, tech ex-

ecutives, activists, and government officials. They collaborate to

fire anyone arguing in favor of Palestinian freedom, including

Courtney Carey from Wix, and Paddy Cosgrave from Websum-

mit, and to put public pressure on any comments deemed anti-

Israel.

37. When folks suddenly start talking about anti-semitism at

universities, or maligning slogans of Palestinian freedom, we

know it’s to cover up the genocide that’s going on in Gaza.

38. Joseph Massad, professor of modern Arab politics and intel-

lectual history at Columbia University, makes the case (

https://

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-claims-no-credibility-

outside-of-west-gaza) that Israeli propaganda has been repeatedly

shown to be false, and that they have no credibility apart from

what is parroted by Western news organizations.

39. The accuracy of the Gaza Ministry of Health’s reporting of

death tolls has been shown to be accurate by recent studies

(

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-

ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033)

when looking at the 2008, 2014, and 2015 wars. U.S. medical

journal Lancet (

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article

/PIIS0140-6736(23)02713-7/fulltext) reviewed and affirms the

numbers provided in the current war.

“These figures are professionally done and have proven

to be reliable,” said Omar Shakir (

https://apnews.com/article/isr

ael-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-594708203

08b31f1faf73c703400b033), Human Rights Watch’s Israel and

Palestine director.

40. A 2000 lb. bomb (

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_84_bo

mb). From the NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25

/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-death-toll.html):

Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in

dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-

pound bombs that can flatten an apartment

tower, is surprising, some experts say.

“It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,” said

Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX

and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find

a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small

area, he said, we may “have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second

World War.”

In fighting during this century, by contrast, U.S. military

officials often believed that the most common American aerial

bomb – a 500-pound weapon – was far too large for most targets

when battling the Islamic State in urban areas like Mosul, Iraq,

and Raqqa, Syria.

41. An MK-84 costs $16,000, so your taxes can kill more civilians

than you think.

42. I’ll note that the same conservatives screaming about freedom

of speech for the last decade were the first to ask for freedom of

speech to be shut down at universities.

43. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is deliber-

ately misconstrued to imply the genocide of the the Israel people.

When taken at face value, it can clearly be seen to aim for Pal-

estinian freedom. Jewish Currents has a good article (

https://jew

ishcurrents.org/what-does-from-the-river-to-the-sea-really-mean)

on this from 2021.

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44. Tech leaders such as the Information’s Sam Lessin called out

Tiktok’s foreign ownership, complaining that it is a major national

security threat. My understanding is that this referred to the sig-

nificant difference between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian hash-

tags, with #freepalestine winning by a margin of 4-1.

Tiktok responded essentially that the kids are alright

(

https://twitter.com/lessin/status/1718810964060156243), and that

millennials are much more likely to sympathize with Palestinian

oppression.

Which I suppose is Lessin’s point.

45. See The Guardian (

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023

/dec/07/widespread-destruction-in-gaza-puts-concept-of-

domicide-in-focus).

46. After Israel demanded that civilians evacuate, they dropped

bombs (

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/middleeast/israel-pale

stinian-evacuation-orders-invs/index.html) on fleeing refugees.

47. Matt Ocko’s (

https://genocide.vc/matt-ocko-of-dcvc-believes-

palestinians-are-sub-human/) statements are quite something. I

can’t believe someone would say that out loud, never mind post

it on Twitter.

48. Bessemer Ventures’ Adam Fisher was named as one of the

leaders in the pro-Israeli propaganda group uncovered by Lee

Fang and Jack Poulson (

https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-

pro-israel-information.com).

49. Shaun Maguire

50. AFAICT, First Round’s Josh Kopelman was instrumental in

canceling (

https://twitter.com/joshk/status/17137579607263395

89) Paddy Cosgrave for saying “War crimes are war crimes even

when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they

are,” (

https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/17127905398446

12553) and being one of the few people in tech saying so. It took

about a day for Cosgrave to be fired.

51. A selection of quotes by senior Israeli officials:

“Human animals must be treated as such. There will be

no electricity and no water [in Gaza], there will only be destruc-

tion. You wanted hell, you will get hell.” – Major General

Ghassan Alian (

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/co

gatchief-addresses-gazans-you-wanted-hell-you-will-get-hell/),

Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip.

There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.

We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

– Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (

https://www.timesofisrael.com

/liveblog_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-

gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/)

To be clear, when they say that Hamas needs to be elim-

inated, it also means those who sing, those who support and those

who distribute candy, all of these are terrorists. [...] They should

all be eliminated – Itamar Ben-Gvir (

https://www.aa.com.tr/en

/middle-east/anyone-who-supports-hamas-should-be-eliminated-

israeli-minister/3051463), Minister of National Security.

There will be no Palestinian state here. We will never

allow another state to be established between the Jordan and the

sea. We will never go back to Oslo – Shlomo Karhi, Minister of

Communications, Likud Party (

https://twitter.com/shlomo_karhi

/status/1734631075043778670).

Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will over-

shadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone

who dares to join! – Ariel Kallner (https://www.pbs.org /newshour

/world/in-israels-call-for-mass-evacuation-palestinians-hear-

echoes-of-their-original-catastrophic-exodus), Likud Party [Tweet

preserved here] (https://www.middle eastmonitor.com/20231009-

israel-mk-calls-for-a-second-nakba-in-gaza/).

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

** Paul Biggar is an Irish tech entrepreneur, software engineer

and founder of at least two tech startup companies. His advocacy

for justice for Palestine led him to start Tech For Palestine, a loose

coalition of over 5,000 founders, engineers, product marketers,

community builders, investors, and other tech folks working to-

ward Palestinian freedom. See:

https://techforpalestine.org/.

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