Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

‼️EMAIL BLAST - NO BUSINESS AS USUAL‼️ After the detention of our peer Mahmoud Khalil by DHS and the multiple confirmed reports of ICE agents harassing students inside our campus and in its surroundings, we call on all to reject the university’s sentiments of continuing business as usual! We have created a couple of email templates for people to use and send out to your professors calling them to cancel class/ make classes virtual for the coming week. No student should have to choose between their education and their safety! None of us are safe until all of us are safe and this recent event has shown all that Columbia University does not care for its students and is consistently will to compromise their safety. SHARE WIDELY! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ86Q-DgevEIHbdP78IrqNnmM_k7fmBd_J065bSBNAHyP0CxtCZVPOplBxETmLhcaafWXPE3dXK2rd1/pub

We sent over 50,000 emails to Columbia and Barnard administrators demanding they DROP THE SUSPENSIONS, DISMISS THE CHARGES. Now, they’re deciding on the fates of 22 students for the Gaza Solidarity Encampment ⛺️🇵🇸. Another 20 students will be facing hearings for the liberation of Hind’s Hall at the start of the semester. Our power will not stay in their inboxes! NYC we need your support, show up to Columbia University on January 21st @ 1PM. Students, walk out! There will be no school as usual as long as our universities fund and normalize the genocide of Palestinians. Just this month, Columbia has welcomed back US AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL, Jacob J. Lew, to its faculty where he’ll be teaching students all about how they can become ARCHITECTS OF GENOCIDE too. Columbia, your repression has only fueled us. This semester we commit to fighting for Palestine harder than ever. Gaza is our soul, our universe — we fight for amnesty, so we can escalate for Palestine. (2/2)

GAZA WILL RISE! Ceasefire today, liberation tomorrow! A ceasefire has been announced. After 465 days of genocide, Palestinians in Gaza have not only survived, but shown the world that they will continue to rise until liberation. This next long road ahead will be one of return and rebuilding, holding Zionists and war criminals to account, and continuing to drive the struggle for liberation forward. 🗓️ Thursday, January 16 📍 Times Square (43rd St & Broadway) ⏰ 6 PM

“I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.” - Leila Khaled

While women in Gaza are forced to give birth through C-sections without anesthesia, while women in the occupation’s prison system face sexual violence at the hands of the IOF, while women of the Global South suffer under the weight of empire, Barnard banks on those who aspire for nothing more than seats at the oppressor’s table. We reject this colonial feminist narrative wholeheartedly.

Today we rallied at Barnard, the women’s college of Columbia, to denounce their weaponization of racist imperialist feminism and instead honor the women of our resistance in Palestine & Lebanon, the women who lead our revolutionary struggle.