Defend CUNY Organizing, Stand for Palestine: #WeStandWithFatima

To sign the statement, visit this link: https://forms.gle/MVg6TzTaf4XacLX1A

Update: 7/03/2023: CUNY4Palestine and WOL released a released a video titled #WeStandWithFatima in coalition with 34 legal scholars, distinguished professors, organizers and artists, alongside CUNY students and workers in defense of CUNY Law class-elected speaker Fatima. Read the press release here.

Update: 6/20/23: At the CUNY Board of Trustees Bronx Borough Hearing at Hostos Community College, CUNY workers, students, & alumni from CUNY4Palestine & Hostos Bronx Action Committee demanded that the BOT & Chancellor end their racist, anti-Palestinian repression on campus & declared #WeStandWithFatima

Update: 6/06/2023: The CUNY Law Jewish Law Students Association’s statement in support of Fatima was baselessly removed from its location by Google. While JLSA appeals the removal, read JLSA’s statement here.

Update: 6/05/2023: CUNY Students and Workers held a direct action during the Board of Trustees Committee on Student Life in defense of Fatima and the right to organize for Palestine. Read the press release here, and click here and here for more info on the action.

Update: 6/01/2023: After pressure from right-wing media outlets, the CUNY Board of Trustees has doubled down on their shameful statement baselessly categorizing Fatima’s speech as “hate speech.” See below for action items on holding the Board accountable.

For over two years now, zionist organizations have escalated a campaign that has motivated right wing politicians, media outlets, and educational institutions to wage war on Palestine organizing at the City University of New York (CUNY). Although the conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism is nothing new for Palestine organizers, what is happening today at CUNY is far more serious than any individual smear campaign taken in isolation. Any act of anti-Palestinian repression at CUNY, the largest Black and Brown public urban university system in the country and a historic base of people power, must be understood within the context of the zionist settler project hoping to reverse the gains made by Palestinians, both here and in Palestine, any way they can. 

CUNY School of Law alumna Fatima is under attack after delivering a principled speech against zionist settler-colonialism, capitalism, and racist police violence as the class-elected commencement speaker at the CUNY Law School’s graduation on May 12, 2023. We call on all supporters of Palestinian liberation and our allies to #StandWithFatima and join us in combating the repression of peoples’ movements in CUNY by signing onto this statement, sharing it, and completing the action items below. 

In recent days, the attacks against Fatima have flooded in from both sides of the U.S. empire’s political establishment, uniting the likes of Democratic NYC Congressman Ritchie Torres and Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who attacked Fatima’s speech on Twitter and painted a target on her for national harassment. NYC Mayor Eric Adams, after subjecting New York to shock-and-awe austerity measures, has joined the attack against our comrade Fatima with a disgraceful tweet, accusing her of “negativity” and “divisiveness”. Former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly went on national television to slander her in an interview on Fox Business. 

These assaults followed a digital smear campaign against Fatima led by a consortium of settler apologist organizations, resulting in the right-wing rag known as the New York Post publishing a front-page story on May 30, 2023. The story, laden with zionist, Islamophobic and misogynistic vitriol, prominently featured Fatima’s photo. Today, the Post doubled down on its campaign by featuring her powerful speech on the cover-page once again. Earlier this afternoon, the Post attempted to contact Within Our Lifetime trying once again to make connections between the organization and unrelated entities and individuals. 

As zionist organizations and politicians, and clickbait tabloid publication houses like the Post unite to target Fatima, in the same way they targeted WOL Chairperson Nerdeen following her commencement address in 2022, CUNY administration is once again complicit. CUNY has followed what is now a predictable pattern of staying silent, allowing zionists to attack their students unabated, and then issuing defamatory statements condemning their own students, letting cowardice reign over their obligation to protect and serve the CUNY community. As of May 30th, the CUNY Board of Trustees has gone so far as to label Fatima’s speech as “hate speech.

Immediately following Fatima’s powerful speech, CUNY Law administration shamefully attempted to suppress the livestreams of the 2022 and 2023 commencements. The 2023 commencement was particularly uncomfortable for the CUNY administration and political establishment, as it witnessed CUNY Law School students boldly turning their backs on the embarrassment that is New York City’s Mayor, Eric Adams. In a shocking lack of transparency, the student body was not informed about Adam’s presence prior to his arrival, and he was rightfully met with resounding boos as he attempted to deliver a self-aggrandizing apologia for police violence disguised as a speech. Although CUNY was compelled to restore both videos online due to public pressure campaigns, the story did not end there. Subsequently, the CUNY Board of Trustees issued the statement accusing Fatima of “hate speech,” placing  an egregious stain on the legitimacy of the university. We challenge any representative from CUNY to justify their accusation of ‘hate speech’ with specificity; otherwise, it stands as an actionable defamation of Fatima’s character and unwavering integrity.

The City University of New York is a university that was born and reborn in the struggles of the people who live here, in New York City. CUNY was a free university from the moment of its inception through the U.S. Civil War, the Great Depression, two world wars, and countless fiscal crises. In 1969, student, worker, and community uprisings, including occupations at CCNY, Brooklyn College, Queens College, and BMCC, led to the victory of Open Admissions – guaranteeing CUNY admission to any high school graduate in New York City. It was only in 1976, the year that the student body became majority non-white for the first time, that tuition was first introduced.

By 1999, the victory of Open Admissions and the radical legacy of the people’s university was largely defeated. Since then, CUNY administrators and the New York political establishment have embarked on a crusade of privatizing and militarizing the university of the people of New York.

Just last week, Hunter College President Raab fired beloved organizer, renowned artist and professor Shellyne Rodriguez in retaliation for her direct action confronting a right wing anti-abortion lobby group masquerading as a student organization in the college. This incident happened immediately after President Raab unprecedentedly and illegally banned Hunter alumna and WOL Chair Nerdeen from speaking at the campus. Shortly after, Raab announced she would be conferring an honorary degree on notorious war criminal Nancy Pelosi. At the same time El Centro – the once-legendary Puerto Rican liberation center at Hunter – hosted an event arguing that statehood for Puerto Rico is a form of decolonization. Little by little, year by year, CUNY administrators attempt to transform this university into one that is out of touch and unaccountable to its students, workers and the community in which it is embedded. 

It is important we contextualize these developments not as individual viral sensations or disorganized backlash, but as part of a proactive, coordinated campaign that has been shaping CUNY as a battleground for decades, and increasingly over the past two years. This is a campaign of racialized militarization and privatization – which, in recent years, has manifested itself through the hiring and lauding of war criminals like David Petraeus and Colin Powell, the return of the ROTC, the seizure of the Morales-Shakur Community and Student Center, tuition hikes, tightening admission standards designed to attract wealthy out-of-state students, an exploitative multi-tiered labor system and increased precarity for the majority of CUNY workers. Repression against Palestinian student organizers is one part of this wider landscape. 

Well-funded zionist organizations like the Anti Defamation League, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), settler-financier Robert Kraft-linked foundations, and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) work in concert with zionist city councilmembers like Inna Vernikov, Ari Kagan, Robert Holden, Kalman Yeger and Eric Dinowitz, aiming to pressure the CUNY administration to roll back wins for Palestine at the university system, punish Palestinian students and their allies, and deepen existing ties to the zionist settler-colony. This has included attempts to implement the IHRA definition of anti-semitism, and increase funding for initiatives that target and repress Palestinian activism on campus. After last year’s witch-hunt against WOL Chair Nerdeen at the City Council, CUNY Chancellor Rodriguez confessed that the CUNY administration is looking into implementing the blatantly unconstitutional IHRA definition throughout the CUNY system. 

Chancellor Rodriguez is a relative new-comer to the CUNY administration, having been installed in that position in the wake of the anti-militarization and anti-austerity campaigns throughout CUNY in the era of 2011-2016. Despite that, Rodriguez has used his position to enjoy all-expense-paid propaganda junkets to the zionist settler colony, canceled the Palestine Lives Conference that was to take place at John Jay College in 2022 on literally one day’s notice, and legitimized a witch-hunt against Palestinian students at CUNY conducted by the New York City Council in the same year. While he pushes for tuition hikes and student fee increases, Rodriguez takes in roughly $670,000 annually, not including a $90,000 housing stipend, paid for by CUNY students and New York taxpayers. Additionally, Rodriguez has announced millions of dollars in funding towards a new initiative “combating anti-semitism” in the CUNY system in partnership with the Foundation to Combat Anti-semitism. While the exact details of what this initiative will involve is still under wraps, we note that the Foundation is funded by the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft. Kraft is linked to a host of settler organizations who operate throughout historic Palestine, including settlements in the West Bank, like the Friends of Ir David. With funders like Kraft, it seems clear that the initiative has more to do with entrenching CUNY’s relationship with settler-colonialism than it has to do with genuinely combating anti-semitism. 

At the same time, CUNY announced a partnership with the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) to create an “advisory council” on Jewish life in the university system. While CUNY and JCRC claim the function of the council is to “advise CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez on how to lift up Jewish life and improve communication between religious communities,” JCRC CEO Gideon Taylor, who will sit on the council, remarked that the councils true intentions are to get CUNY to have a “good understanding about Israel and the Jewish community within CUNY.” We reiterate CUNY Law’s Jewish Law Students Association’s words about the conflation of the zionist project and Jewish identity: “As long as zionism has existed, there have been Jewish people fighting against its racist and imperialist logic– to equate anti-zionism with anti-semitism is to erase the history of Jewish anti-zionism, throughout the world and at CUNY Law.” The JCRC was one of the first organizations to attack Fatima’s character after the commencement ceremony.

Integral to this campaign of repression are outfits like Canary Mission, the Zachor Legal Project, Liora Reznichenko’s StopAntisemitism.org, the Jewish Defense League, SAFE CUNY, etc. These organizations reproduce the campaign in various forms: while Canary Mission and StopAntisemitism.org create McCarthyist dossiers to terrorize, target and harass students and professors throughout the CUNY system, Zachor Legal and the Zionist Organization of America write hysterical articles and make baseless reports of the targeted individuals to entities like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, KCC professor Jeffrey Lax’s SAFE CUNY desperately attempts to astroturf a movement of zionist students in CUNY to counterbalance the tide of support for Palestine, while the JDL confronts Palestinian mobilizations with counter protests that number half a dozen at best. All of these organizations have attacked Palestinian students, professors and workers in the university system such as Fatima and Nerdeen for years.

We cannot omit the fact that the trend of increased repression of Palestinian exiles in the United States and Europe is directly correlated to the successes and growing unity of the Palestinian resistance back home. As U.S. hegemony continues to decay, the beneficiaries of empire will become more and more desperate to roll back the victories of oppressed peoples and reassert their supremacy. Our people in Palestine bear the brunt of the zionists’ increasing desperation—but the Palestinian refugees and our allies will feel its aftershocks in the imperial core.

The zionist forces in the U.S. have unleashed their desperation in the classrooms of our universities, and CUNY has become a prime target for their attacks. They correctly fear that CUNY— long a site of organizing people power and a popular base for various emancipatory movements—is the type of grassroots terrain where the struggle will be forged and principled leadership will be built. After years of popular organizing at CUNY, from the passing of BDS resolutions at various campuses to a community-led campaign against racism and repression, zionists are attempting to reassert their politics from the top-down, aligning themselves with fascist politicians like Eric Adams and Kalman Yeger, and milquetoast liberals like Richie Torres. 

The events of the last year have made clear that there is much work to be done. We regret that many national organizations and well-funded nonprofits who claim to be in solidarity with the Palestinian people have turned a blind eye to the struggle for CUNY, and reduce their solidarity, if it comes, to sporadic tweets of vague support for individuals instead of materially supporting the mass movement that is growing day by day. There is still time to join the side of the people. Aligning yourself with Fatima, Nerdeen, and the broader movement for Palestine at CUNY is aligning yourself against the forces that seek to turn our university into a gated community and a playground for neoliberal vultures like Board of Trustees chairperson William Thompson, who oversees billions of dollars in his role at an investment firm, and vice-chairperson Sandra Wilkin, who is not an educator, but the CEO of a construction company. Thompson, Wilkin, and Chancellor Rodriguez were the three signatories of the statement characterizing the commencement address as hate speech. 

Our people will not slow their march towards a free Palestine, and neither will we here, in New York City. Fatima’s speech was a statement that rang true in all people of conscience and #WeStandWithFatima with full solidarity. We demand that the attacks against Fatima immediately cease and all those with an interest in CUNY find their place in her defense and in defense of all students, professors, workers who find themselves under attack at the university. We will continue to advance victories for the Palestinian liberation struggle at CUNY and beyond. 

As Fatima reminds us, the fall of oppressive institutions and entities is the “inevitable future for oppressed people everywhere. For greater empires have fallen, and so will these. So for the class of 2023, the fight begins now.”

We call on all people of conscience to heed Fatima’s call and join the fight for a free Palestine and a liberated CUNY. Take on the action items below to support Fatima and defend Palestine:

If you know of any developments within CUNY not mentioned here, or want to share anything in particular with us, please email wol.palestine@gmail.com

 ACTION ITEM #1: SIGN ONTO THIS STATEMENT AND SHARE IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA

ACTION ITEM #2: EMAIL CUNY DEMANDING THEY RECANT THEIR ACCUSATION OF “HATE SPEECH” AND PROTECT FATIMA AND ALL OF THEIR STUDENTS FROM RIGHT-WING, ZIONIST HARASSMENT

ACTION ITEM #3: EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THE HISTORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CUNY WITH THE FOLLOWING MATERIALS:

The Struggle at CUNY: Ron McGuire

The Struggle for CUNY: Christopher Gunderson

Take Action: Reject City Council’s Anti-Palestinian Crackdown, Stand With Nerdeen Kiswani and CUNY Students, Alums and Faculty Under Attack!

Take Action: CUNY Cancels Palestine Lives Event Commemorating the Nakba

#IHRAOutOfCUNY

#WeStandWithNerdeen: Take Action

March 4 Education

Cuomo Won’t Deliver Us a Free CUNY

The Real Story: The New McCarthyism and Repression of Palestine Activism at CUNY

Victory! SJP and Allies Pressure Stop Zionist R*pe Advocate From Speaking at Hunter

The Role of Youth and Students in the International Solidarity Movement for Palestine

Post MSM: CUNY, Zionism, and Organized Repression

Million Student March Statement

ACTION ITEM #4: VISIT WITHIN OUR LIFETIME’S WEBSITE IN THE COMING WEEKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SITUATION AT CUNY AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO BE A PART OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CUNY 

ACTION ITEM #5: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR MOBILIZATIONS & FUTURE CALLS TO ACTION

Statements in Solidarity with Fatima

In The News:

People’s Dispatch: Law Student in NYC faces backlash and censorship after speaking out against israeli crimes (6/05/23)

Middle East Eye: 'Smear Campaign': Academics and Jewish organisations condemn targeting of pro-Palestine student (6/1/2023)

HellGate: CUNY is Run by Cowards (5/31/2023)

Mondoweiss: Reclaiming CUNY as a People’s University: Fighting against repression, censorship, and anti-Palestinian racism (5/22/2023)

Palestine Legal: City University of New York Cancels Palestinian Speaker on Nakba Day (5/18/2023)

Signatories:

Organizations:
CUNY4Palestine
Within Our Lifetime
Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine
CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine
CSI Students for Justice in Palestine
John Jay Students for Justice in Palestine
CUNY Law Student Government
CUNY For Abortion Rights
Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
Rank and File Action, CUNY
Not In Our Name CUNY
CUNY Law Jewish Law Students Association
Muslims Giving Bank @ CCNY
Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoner Solidarity Network
Collectif Palestine Vaincra
Palestinian Youth Movement
NY Boricua Resistance
American Muslims for Palestine
International League of Peoples Struggle – US
Art Against Displacement NYC
Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of israel (USACBi)
OUTLaws
CUNY Law Foundation for Immigrant and Refugee Empowerment
CUNY Law Latin American Law Students Association
Voices for Palestine
One Democratic State Initiative
DREAMS ACT
Workers World Party
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
National Students for Justice in Palestine
University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine
Miami University Students for Justice in Palestine
Green Mountain Solidarity with Palestine
Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return – University of Washington
Students for Justice in Palestine, UNC-Chapel Hill
Students for Justice in Palestine at Denison University
American Muslims for Palestine – New Jersey
Berkley Law Students for Justice in Palestine
Intl. Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
National Lawyers Guild
National Lawyers Guild – International Committee
Bridges for Yemen
Jadaliyya Palestine Page Co-Editors
Dallas Palestine Coalition
National Lawyers Guild – USC Gould Chapter
National Lawyers Guild – St. Louis
Law for Black Lives
Asociación Americana de Juristas
Women in Black
NY Law School Black Law Students Association
Brooklyn Law School’s Muslim Law Students Association
Revolutionaire Eenheid
Drexel Community for Justice
United Islamic Front
East Berkshire Palestine Solidarity Committee
For Our Liberation
Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Association
International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen
Malaya NY
Voices for Justice in Palestine
Jewish Voice for Peace – Central Ohio
Jewish Voice for Peace – Miluwakee
Samidoun – Albuquerque
BIPOC Analysis Collective
Palestinian American Organizations Network (PAON)
Fordham National Lawyers Guild
Rutgers-Newark Law National Lawyers Guild
United Front Committee for a Labor Party
Law Offices of Moira Meltzer-Cohen
Harvard Law Muslim Law Student Association
Columbia Law National Lawyers Guild
Amherst College Muslim Students Association
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
North Texas Peace Advocates
Yale Jews for Palestine
New York Community Action Project
Project South
Students for Justice in Palestine at Denison University
Jewish Voice for Peace – Central NJ
National Writers Union
Northern NJ Jewish Voice for Peace
North NJ DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group
Jewish Voice for Peace – Westchester
Students for Justice in Palestine at NYU
Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area
University of Cape Town Palestinian Solidarity Forum
Jewish Voice for Peace Pittsburgh
NYC For Abortion Rights
Black Worker’s Center Chorus
Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA
Greater Toronto 4 BDS

Individuals:

A.E., Brooklyn College
Aamina Mohammed, Baruch College
Aber Kawas, CCNY
Abdulla A., CUNY Law
Adam Edwards-Rivera, CUNY Law
Afifa Samad, CUNY Law
Aftab Siddiqui, North Texas Peace Advocates
Aimes Shunk, CUNY Law
Al Ciuci, CUNY Silberman School of Social Work
Alaa S., CUNY Graduate Center
Ali Jahmi, Baruch College
Aliana Chlebek, CUNY Law
Allyson Ganster, CUNY Graduate Center
Althea Lamel, CUNY Law
Alyson Wertheim, Hunter College Muse Scholar
Aman Malik, CCNY
Amal Thabateh, CUNY Law
Amanda Long, Queens College
Amanda Lotspike, CUNY Law
Amelia Mullaney, CUNY Law
Amita J. CUNY Law
Ana Celia Zentella, Professor Emerita, UCSD
Anaheed Mobraki
Anamaría F., Hostos Community College
Anindita Das, CUNY Law
Andrea Alajbegovic, CUNY Law ‘19
Andrea Galaba, Hunter College Alum
Andreas Petrossiants, NYU
Andrew Berezhansky, John Jay College
Andrew Ross, Professor, NYU
Andrew Shapiro, the Graduate Center
Ankit Sayed, Amherst College
Anitta Santiago, Hostos CC
Anna, Queens College
Anna Berg, Jewish Voice for Peace
Anne Leonardo, CUNY Law ‘23
Anthony Harb, CUNY Graduate Center & Brooklyn College
Araby Zubaidi, Brooklyn College
Areba Ghafoor, Baruch College
Ariana Baldwin, CUNY MPA
Ashley Toruno, CUNY Law
Asia Khan, Hunter College
Ashlyn M., CCNY Alum
Asmaou Diallo, John Jay College
Ava Tomasula y Garcia, Columbia University
Avery Leshan, CUNY Law
Azalia Torres, CUNY
Basamat Hamdan, Brooklyn College
Bayan Boulad, CUNY School of Public Health
Benita Vonlilienfeld-Berry, CUNY Law
Betty Capehart, CCNY
Binita Z., John Jay College
Brian Ehrenpreis, CUNY Law
Brian Ford, DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group
Brian Lange, CUNY Law
Britt Munro, Graduate Center, Lehman College, Medgar Evers College
Caitrionat Fox, CUNY
Caitlin Hickey, Brooklyn College
Calvin John Smiley, Hunter College
Camilo, CUNY Law, W. Haywood Burns Memorial Chair
Caroline Tarantino, CUNY Law
Catie Holcroft, CUNY Law
Chris Natoli, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College
Christopher Leon Johnson, Kingsborough Community College
Claudia Freites, CUNY Law
Clementine Stormes, CUNY Law
Colleen Chung, CUNY Law
Corinna Mullin, Adjunct Professor, CUNY4Palestine
Dalia Yousef, CUNY Graduate Center
Dana Grabelsky, the Graduate Center
Dana Jabri, CUNY Law
Dania Elder, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
Dania Ibrahim, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Daniel Bennett, CUNY Graduate Center
Daniel Cione, Hunter College, CUNY Law
Danny Sanchez, Queens College
David Blonder, NYU
David Borgonjon, Columbia University
Deidre Silverman, CUNY Alumna and former employee
Diya Qazeili Moushahwar, BMCC
Donald Monaco, Adjunct Lecturer at LaGuardia Community College
Drew Haste, CUNY Law
Edgar Rivera Colon, PhD
Elena Christofi, CUNY Law ’23
Elizabeth Howell-Egan, USC Gould
Elizabeth Oram, Hunter College
Ellen Dichner, CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies
Elsa Raker, CUNY Law
Elyse Dye, CUNY Law
Emlyn Medalla, CUNY Law
Erica Calabrese, John Jay College, Kingsborough Community College
Eric Horowitz, CUNY Law Jewish Law Students Association
Erich Slimak, the Graduate Center
Erik Wallenberg, CUNY Graduate Center
Erika Lopez, Columbia Law
Erin Tomlinson, CUNY Law Alum
Fatima Sanih, CCNY
Fatin Ishraq, M.D., CUNY School of Medicine
Fatoumata Barry, Hunter College
Fazila Naeemi, CUNY Law
Fernando Lim, CUNY Law
Fizza Fahim, Johns Hopkins University
Gaby Malespin, CUNY Law
Gabby Aossey, CUNY Law
Genevieve Ward, CUNY Law
Gillian Rowland-Kain, CUNY Law
Graham Howard, Former CUNY Employee
Greta Berlin, the Free Gaza Movement, Boats to Gaza, Freedom Flotilla
Gretchen Gleason, CUNY Law
H.M., Hunter College
Haitham Alnajar, Brooklyn College
Hajira Sultana, CCNY
Haley Wen, CUNY Law
Hanan A., Brooklyn College Student
Hannah Tawfiek, CCNY
Hannah Walsh, CUNY Law
Hannah Widercrantz, CUNY Law
Harshini Gorijala, CUNY Law
Hasan Altaf, Hunter College
Hassina N., Hunter College
Heather Ramirez, Cuny Law
Hebh Jamal, CCNY
Hester Eisenstein, Professor Emerita Queens College, Graduate Center
Holly Gunder, CUNY Law
Ilyanna Garcia Alicia, Macaulay, John Jay
Irina Kats, CUNY Alum
Isabella Irtifa, Hunter College, the Graduate Center
Jacob F.
Jada Shannon, Hunter College Graduate
Ja’Loni Owens, CUNY Law
Jack Pellicano, CUNY Law
Jamilah McMillan, Berkeley Law
Jane Guskin, Adjunct Profesor, Queens College
James Bearden, PhD Emeritus Association and Professor at SUNY Geneseo
Jannatul Ferdous Nila, Hunter College
Jason Seidman, Baruch College
Jawaria Tahir, Brooklyn College
Jeannette Graulau, Lehman College
Jenny Z., Macaulay Honors College at John Jay College
Jeremy Randall, the Graduate Center
Jessy Goldberg, CUNY Law
Jihad Hasan, Brooklyn College
Jim Wise, CUNY Law
John King, NYU
John J. Kallas, NYU
Joudy Sherif, John Jay College
Julian G., Queens College Alum
Justin Beauchamp, CUNY Graduate Center
Julia Bannon, Columbia University, Hunter College Alum
Julia Ismail, NY Law School
Julia Wang, CUNY Law
Julieta Salgado, Brooklyn College ’15
Karen Platt, JVP – Bay Area
Kamal Preet, CUNY Law
Karem Herrera, CUNY Law
Karen Wheeler, Adjunct Professor, Hunter College
Karin Brothers, SUNY Albany
Karla Hernandez, CUNY Law
Kate C., CUNY Law
Kathleen Giunta, CCNY, Brooklyn Law
Katie Chin, Hunter College
Kelly Folkers, CUNY Law
Kelsey De Avila, CUNY Law
Kristin Maglabe, CUNY Law
Kristen Wallace, University of Denver
Krystin Hernández, CUNY Law ’22
Lark Omura, Adjunct Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Laura Kaplan, Hunter College Alumna
Laura Logozzo, CCNY
Laura Reyes, CUNY Law
Luara Waldman, CUNY Law
Laura Weiner, CUNY Law
Leah Mack, CUNY Law
Leigha Gillespie, CUNY Law ’22
Leila S, College of Staten Island
Lena Ghrama, CUNY Law
Lillian W., Queensborough Community College
Lily Manshel, CUNY Law
Liora Cohen-Fraadr, CUNY Law
Lizette Colón, Hostos Community College & Professional Staff Congress Retiree
Lucien Baskin, the Graduate Center
Lynn Zhong, CUNY Law
Olivia Mignone, the Graduate Center
M. Possidente, CUNY Law
Madison Koenig, NYU Law ’21
Maggie Israel, CUNY Law
Maikél Angeles, Hunter College
Malak Afaneh, Berkley Law
Malak Shahin, Washington University Law
Manal Abdulrahman, CUNY Law
Manar Dihyem, Brooklyn College
Maria Marroquin, CUNY Law ‘19
Marianne Madoré, CUNY Graduate Center
Marieya J., John Jay College
Mark Scaggs, Columbia
Mark Silverman, Graduate Center
Maryam Gani
Maryam Ibrahim, Hunter College
Maryum Anwar, John Jay College
Matthew T., Queensborough Community College
Maya Taraf, CUNY
Michael Bot, Tilburg University
Michelle Eng, CUNY Law ‘22
Michelle Hernandez, CUNY Law
MiriamEdwin, CUNY Graduate Center Alum
Misaël Syldor, CUNY Law, Student Government
Mitchell Kaye, CUNY Law
Mitchell Piltnick, ReThinking Foreign Policy
Miriam Tiktin, CUNY Graduate Center
Miranda Litwak, NYU Law
Mohammed Manzoor, Brooklyn College
Mohanad Osman, Queens College
Moira Meltzer-Cohen, CUNY Law
Mona Reed, Hunter Alum
Musabika Nabija, Macaulay, John Jay College
Myles Lawrence-Briggs, CUNY Law
Nabhan Tariq, Hunter College
Nabila U., CUNY Law
Nadia Morales, CUNY Alum
Nantina Vgontzas, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Natasha Hajo, CUNY Law
Nathaniel Mothing, Art Against Displacement NYC
Newland Smith, Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Nicholas Davydoff, Brooklyn College
Nick Rudolph, CCNY
Nicole Castillo, St. John’s School of Law
Nisha Aamir, John Jay College
Noor Sharlin Jahan, CCNY
Nora Alsahybi, John Jay College
Nour Joudah, UCLA
Noura Emboli, CUNY Graduate Center
Olin MacIntosh, Hunter College
Olivia Stowell, University of Michigan, PhD
Omar Simreen, New York Law School, Lehman College
Parima Kadikar, CUNY Law
Patricio Morocho, CUNY Guttman Community College Alum
Paul A., Lehman College
Pedro Sepulveda, CUNY Law
Pierina Reyes, John Jay & CUNY Law
Rachel Cholst, Hostos Community College
Rachel Holtzman, UNC School of Law
R.K., Brooklyn College
Rachel Brown, CUNY Graduate Center Alum
Rachel Pincus, CUNY Law
Rael Almonte Reyes, John Jay College Alum
Rafael Gilbert, CUNY
Ralph Hurvitz, National Lawyers Guild
Ramin Zareian, CUNY Law
Rania Darwish, Macaulay Honors Students, Hunter USG Senator
Ranjana Venkatesh, CUNY Law
Reihan A., John Jay College
Rene Yaroshevsky, Macaulay, Queens College
Rhea Rahman, Brooklyn College
Riccardo Brindisi, CUNY Law
Rich Merino, CCNY
Richard Donner, CUNY Alum
Robert McGinty, CUNY Graduate Center
Roxanne Zech, CUNY Law
Rosalind Petchesky, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Hunter College
Saad Subzwari, Baruch College
Saara Arshid, CUNY Law ‘23
Sadia, Iqra University
Saja Khalil, John Jay College
Sajia Hanif, CUNY Law
Saifa K., Baruch College
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