As heart wrenching as it is to witness the attacks on Palestinians this week, it hurts even more as U.S. taxpayers to know our own complicity in the Israeli government's brutality. Join us in demanding change secure.everyaction.com/1bUDFJrq_kWz5s…
Take action for Palestine!
Palestinians from Gaza and Sheikh Jarrah are rising up against decades of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. As Israel violently attacks Palestinians for resisting 73 years of oppression, the cruelty of its settler-colonial regime is on full display.
The U.S. government spends $3.8 billion a year on military funding for Israel, allowing it to uphold its oppressive and racist military occupation of Palestine. We should have a say in how our tax dollars are used. Let's demand better.
END U.S. MILITARY FUNDING TO ISRAEL
Hold Israel accountable. Demand that Congress support sanctions on Israel until it complies with international law and puts an end to its apartheid regime.
Uplift Palestinian calls for freedom. Demand that Congress center those most harmed by violence and oppression—the Palestinian people— and support their right to resist Israel's ethnic cleansing. Answer their demands for freedom, justice, and safety.
🚨 BREAKING: Today @EDcivilrights announced @Columbia is under federal investigation for anti-Palestinian racism, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear to arrest Palestinian and associated students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 🧵
Palestine Legal is representing four students and the student group @ColumbiaSJP, who have all been the target of anti-Palestinian discrimination and harassment by fellow students, professors, and/or Columbia administrators.
This comes less than 48 hours after Columbia President Shafik called in the NYPD, which violently arrested and brutalized dozens of student protestors, some with guns drawn, using sledgehammers, batons, and flash-bang explosives. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…
ALERT: We’ve received several reports of the FBI visiting activists in response to their social media posts criticizing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We want you to #KnowYourRights if approached by federal law enforcement (🧵 thread)
The FBI’s discriminatory targeting of people who speak up for Palestinian rights on social media is an attempt to silence popular criticism of Israel. You have a right to speak up against genocide. You have a right to refuse to speak to FBI agents without an attorney present.
Our partners at the @ADC have also documented a disturbing uptick FBI targeting and intimidation of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims since October:
🚨 A Palestinian American student writes "free Palestine" messages across the UIC campus and is stalked by a @thisisUIC employee, who called police to handcuff and arrest in her classroom. Watch the explosive story here: cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u…
She was held in a cell for hours while the university tried to charge her with a felony, which the Cook County attorney rejected before ultimately dismissing criminal charges.
"She didn't break a window ... She didn't burn anything, and for them to put a felony charge, knowing that this could destroy her life? Like a felony is always on your record. This could destroy this young woman's life. But they didn't care," explained @ArabAmCC's Nesreen Hasan.
🧵THREAD: The federal government has launched a long-overdue investigation into anti-Palestinian racism at @thisisUIC. As an institution that prides itself on diversity, UIC should be ashamed of its treatment of Palestinians and their allies.
For years, @SJPUIC has called on @uicpublichealth to end its partnership with @JUFChicago, an organization with a documented history of funding anti-Muslim hate groups. jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/upl…
In March 2021 during the height of the pandemic, @uicpublichealth, as part of its @JUFChicago funded Visiting Scholar in Israeli Studies Program, hosted a talk titled “Description of the Healthcare System in Israel: Implications for COVID Response.”
THREAD: As the US-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza reaches unfathomable proportions, so has the war of repression here: since Oct. 7th we’ve received 1000+ reports from people targeted for Palestine advocacy in all arenas—but it’s not stopping the upsurge in solidarity. 1/14
The lead national story has been Congress hauling in college presidents in a McCarthyist display & passing a resolution equating antisemitism and anti-zionism, which is used to justify censoring any speech critical of Israel’s human rights violations. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Corporate media is hyperfocused on policing pro-justice slogans used by students, instead of condemning the Biden admin’s international pariah move of vetoing a UN ceasefire—in the face of a horrific 18K+ death toll in #Gaza, facilitated by US bombs supplied to Israel's military.
THREAD: Are you a Palestinian student or a student who speaks out for Palestinian rights who has faced anti-Palestinian hate or racism? HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW 🧵
REPORT IT! We've gotten a tsunami of requests for help from STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY whose schools are discriminating against them and failing to protect students against BIGOTED anti-Palestinian racism, from fellow students and even professors. This includes DEATH THREATS
WHAT DO YOU DO? If you are targeted by a student or other individuals or groups not employed by the school, put your school on notice by telling an administrator, such a dean or the principal. We have a template letter for university students to use. palestinelegal.org/template-lette…