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‘We Promise Each other Liberation’: Columbia Activists Honor Expelled Students at the ‘People’s Graduation’

By Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, published on Mondoweiss,  May 24, 2025 On May 18, 2025 families and friends gathered at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to honor expelled and suspended student protesters during an alternative graduation ceremony titled the “People’s Graduation.” Among those recognized was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student[…]

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Project Esther: Targeting the Anti-Genocide Movement by Slandering it as Antisemitic

by Viviana Weinstein, posted on Workers World,  May 21, 2025 My father Max was an immigrant, a U.S. citizen, Jewish and veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought the fascists during the civil war in Spain in the 1930s. Like many Jews who suffered through the years of the Holocaust, he was anti-Zionist. My parents understood Zionism to be[…]

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Stop the Attacks on Palestinian Rights Activists

United National Antiwar Coalition, UNAC  Statement Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian born Palestinian and former graduate student at Columbia University, has been detained in a prison in Louisiana and threatened with deportation for his association with pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, where he was a negotiator between the University and the student activists.   He is not the only foreign student to[…]

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Yale Purges Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, Another Targeted Palestine Activist

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, March 19, 2025 Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, was suspended, cut off from her information technology accounts and banned from campus in March of this year. She was accused of terrorism for allegedly belonging to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, by[…]

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Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field

by Jesse Hagopian, published on Truthout, January 24, 2025 Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges. “Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it’s also a matter of national survival,” Donald Trump railed at a rally in the lead-up[…]

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University of Rochester Students Face 7 Years in Jail for Displaying ‘Wanted’ Posters on Campus

by Michael Arria, published on Mondoweiss, November 14, 2024 Four students at the University of Rochester are facing up to seven years in jail for putting up posters around campus accusing a small number of faculty members of enabling the genocide in Gaza. Last month four students at the University of Rochester were charged with second-degree criminal mischief for their connection[…]

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Cornell Student Nick Wilson on Pro-Palestine Activism

I Was Just Suspended by Cornell University. Here’s My Story. by Nick Wilson, published in the Cornell Sun, April 27, 2024 My name is Nick Wilson, I am a second-year undergraduate in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and yesterday I was temporarily suspended from the University for participating in a nonviolent encampment on the Arts Quad. I was suspended[…]

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Campus Revolts Inspire Anti-Imperialist Solidarity

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 30, 2023 Faced with the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in occupied Gaza that has claimed the lives of 34,454 civilians, with 77,575 people injured as of April 28, according to Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Health, and caused the displacement of over 1 million people, the solidarity with Palestine is evolving into a[…]

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Student Mobilizations Against Israel Genocide Spread

by Barry Shepard, published on Socialist Action, April 24, 2024 Ever since Israel’s war on Palestinians and increasing destruction of infrastructure and mass killings of the population in Gaza, protests have developed on campuses. The response of supporters of Israel’s war have charged that campus pro-Palestinian demonstrations are anti-Semitic. As the killings and destruction have intensified, so to have many[…]

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