Tag: palestine
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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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Urban renewal: US-backed oppression at home and in Palestine
It’s not just the lice epidemic that turned me away from McKeldin Library. In the immediate postwar era, World War II veterans returned to newly established suburban housing projects known as “Levittowns.” These new developments attracted substantial investments in the interstate highway system, as well as new business parks and shopping centers outside of their…
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UMD students protest university career fair for ties to human rights violations
Dozens of students gathered to protest the inclusion of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and other defense contractors at the University of Maryland’s STEM and engineering career fair on Thursday. The protest, organized by UMD’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, was at the Engineering Fields across from The Hotel, where the career fair was…
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From ICE detention to job termination, activists Mahmoud Khalil and Karen Attiah speak out in D.C.
Activist Mahmoud Khalil and writer Karen Attiah addressed a crowd of over 100 people at Busboys and Poets — a chain restaurant with the goal of inspiring social change — in Washington D.C. on Thursday night. The two spoke in conversation ranging from Khalil’s time in ICE detention and Attiah’s recent termination from the Washington…
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Israel guilty of genocide, says UN Commission
Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza strip, an independent United Nations commission has found. The report, published Tuesday by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, found that “Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five possible genocidal acts defined by…
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