Author: Al-Hikmah Staff
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Al-Hikmah condemns the detention and treatment of journalists, Muslim students and students of color by UMPD
Al-Hikmah condemns the hour-long detention of two of our staff by the University of Maryland’s Police Department as they were fulfilling their journalistic duties to cover a protest against the presence of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers at a Students Supporting Israel (SSI) event Tuesday night. In the course of covering the student protest, two…
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UMD Hillel annual “Birthright Israel Trip” raises controversy
A group of UMD students returned from a trip to Israel from June 4 to 15 organized by Maryland Hillel and Taglit-Birthright Israel. Photos and posts from the trip — including students meeting with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and hiking in the Golan Heights, a region internationally recognized as Israeli-occupied Syrian territory — have…
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“We stand in firm solidarity”: Boycott Israel Fest in photos
Enclosed in a circular frame of silver fences, students and faculty stood side-by-side in Hornbake Plaza for a counter-demonstration against the annual “Israel Fest” on May 6. The protest, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), called for the campus community to boycott the festival, referring to it as a celebration of a settler…
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