Tag: sjp
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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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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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“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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