Tag: palestine
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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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UMD SJP to donate funds obtained in $100k settlement against UMD
After obtaining a “historic” settlement from the University of Maryland following a court ruling that found free speech violations, UMD’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter has begun planning a path forward. The SJP chapter will soon begin the process of obtaining the $100,000 sum owed by UMD in an agreement reached this summer, which…
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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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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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