All in Palestine in America
National Students for Justice in Palestine is excited to announce that it will be holding its sixth annual conference on November 4th-6th, hosted by George Mason University Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) in Fairfax, VA and the DMV.
The Obama administration condemned Israel’s approval of a plan to build new settlement homes on Palestinian land. The State Department argued in astatement on Wednesday that the new settlement’s in the West Bank “would further damage the prospects for a two-state solution.”
Canary Mission has existed since February 2015. The website compiles detailed information about Palestinian solidarity activists and pro-Palestinian academics, in order to create individual profiles accusing them of being sympathetic to terrorism and anti-semitism.
University of California Berkeley reinstated a student-led course on Palestine less than a week after its suspension. Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science, Carla Hesse rescinded the suspension of the class in a statement written on September 19.
It’s been two years, and Gaza is still in ruins. As Israeli rockets descended upon the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, countless schools, hospitals, mosques, UN shelters, and vital infrastructure came under fire. The brutal and indiscriminate 51-day assault further accelerated the already grave humanitarian disaster in the besieged strip.
Abderhman Abuhashem is a Gaza native who had big dreams and the tenacity to reach them.
The University of California Irvine (UCI) concluded its investigation of UCI’s Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) participation in a campus protest last May.
While repression of student activism is certainly not a new phenomenon, in recent years the targeting of students engaged in pro-Palestine work on campus has steadily increased.
Palestine in America held its first annual Palipalooza on Aug. 13. The sold out inaugural concert was held at Aladdin Palace Banquet in Chicago’s southwest suburb, Hickory Hills.
Chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) from across the United States, under the banner of the National SJP (NSJP) network, released a statement last week expressing solidarity with and gratitude towards the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) for including in its recent policy platform strong language in favor of Palestinian rights and against U.S. complicity in Israeli apartheid.
The Jewish United Fund helped plan and hosted a fundraiser for the IDF at the hotel, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel was in attendance, gave a speech and donated $5,000 from him and his wife. Activist, who attended the fundraiser, interrupted the mayor’s speech by chanting, “We are Jews, shame on you. Stop killing children now.”
The San Francisco Public Library will host “Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay” an exhibit by Palestinian photographer Najib Joe Hakim.
Frank Ocean released his first album since 2012 on August 18 via Apple Music allowing his fan base to finally breathe.
Safe M. Safi, aka Safi G, is a 22-year-old Palestinian underground rapper hailing from Chicago’s North side. Safi G is part of a motley crew of Chicago native artists called , “Bad Ass Niños Doing Incredible Things” (B.A.N.D.I.T.).
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted on Aug. 13 to adopt an investment screen that would prevent the church from investing in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation and other human rights violations around the world.
Senior U.S. law enforcement officers traveled to Israel last week to learn about counter-terrorism strategies from Israeli police officials and the Israeli Defense Force. The officers include the chiefs of the San Bernardino and Orlando police departments.
A few days after the Israeli occupation of Gaza, we heard loudspeakers mounted on the cars announcing the lifting of the curfew for two hours: from 2 to 4 p.m. The sound of the war was still in my ears—the explosions, the low flying jets, the rattling machine guns.
In the early 2000s, the focus of Palestine support work in Chicago was education of the public on the military occupation of Palestine as well as continued protests in reaction to the Israeli attacks on the West Bank and Gaza during the First and Second intifadas.
Inside the second issue of Palestine in America, you’ll find analyses regarding the United States’ complicity in the horrific occupation of Palestine, the siege on Gaza, and a detailed look at the vibrant Palestinian-American community across the country.
A group of academics, artists, and activists aim to challenge prevalent narratives around the Palestine-Israel conflict through a project called Gaza in Context. The project consists of a short film, teaching guide, bibliography, and a compendium of articles from the online magazine Jadaliyya.
