Tag: gaza
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UMD club hosts IDF soldiers event, raising concerns about student safety
Three soldiers from Israel’s military who fought in Gaza during the ongoing genocide were on UMD’s campus at an event held by student organization Students Supporting Israel (SSI) in Jimenez Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 21. The event was intended for the soldiers — Ariel Levy, Daniel Shalom, and Avigayil Atlas — to share their “powerful…
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‘All Day for Gaza’: UMD community gathers to mourn Gaza’s martyrs
More than 50 University of Maryland community members gathered to honor the deaths of Palestinians at the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) “All Day for Gaza” event on Tuesday at McKeldin Mall. The event consisted of sit-ins, teach-ins, speeches and art demonstrations with small white flags placed by organizers to represent Palestinian martyrs killed…
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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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Palestinian Cultural Club: building community through culture
In an effort to gather Palestinian students on campus and educate the UMD community about Palestinian culture, Sarah Edwan came up with the idea of the Palestinian Cultural Club, also known as PCC. Edwan, whose family hails from Gaza, founded the student organization last semester with the motto of building community through culture. “I wanted…
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Palestine’s struggle: A history and context of Israel’s occupation
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed at least 46,600 Palestinians, over half of whom are women, children, and the elderly, over the past 15 months. Sources such as the Yale School of Public Health suggest the true death toll may be higher. A conservative estimate from The Lancet, a medical journal, indicates that over 186,000…
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