On January 3rd, 2017, New York Governor Cuomo and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced a plan to bring free tuition at public universities in New York State for those students coming from families with joint incomes under $125,000 under a three-year phase-in program through the new Excelsior scholarship. Students for Justice in Palestine has … Cuomo Won’t Deliver Us a Liberated CUNY
In light of the surge of violent attacks by white supremacist vigilantes emboldened by Donald Trump’s election and the promise of intensified state surveillance, violence, and repression, we respond to the urgent need to redouble our struggle against US imperialism from within the belly of the beast. In mapping out what the right to resist … Right to Resist: Decolonize This Place & NYC SJP Zine
Join NYC Students for Justice in Palestine as we turn out to this year’s May Day contingent at Union Square. International Workers Day, or “May Day” originated to commemorate the death of the four workers protesting for the current 8-hour workdays during the Chicago Haymarket Riot in 1886. Although the U.S. does not recognize days … Call to May Day 2016: Palestine Contingent
Today, Sunday April 17, 2016, join us and our allies as we launch the second Prison Divestment National Week of Action and mark the 42nd Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. We will gather at 1:30pm at Cadman Plaza and come out in full force to rally against the massive public investment and private prison companies that profit … Palestinian Political Prisoners Day Statement
Youth and Students Unite to Fight Imperialism from New York to the Philippines As students, workers and community members in solidarity with Palestine and all oppressed nations, New York City Students for Justice in Palestine stands in solidarity with the people of Kidapawan, after the massacre in which several farmers were killed, hundreds were injured … NYC SJP Condemns Attack on Farmers in Kidapawan, the Philippines
“Palestine, our souls will not rust in exile” Join us today on March 5th at 1 pm in front of the Harriet Tubman Statue – 122 St and St Nicholas Av/Frederick Douglass Blvd, in Harlem New York to commemorate International Working Women’s Day as an inseparable aspect of the fight for Palestinian liberation. NYC SJP … Women hold up half the sky: Palestinian women in the struggle against Zionism
Today only hours apart from the victory of Mohammed al-Qeeq after his 94-day hunger strike, the revolutionary Omar Nayef Zayed was assassinated within the Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria. Omar, a former political prisoner and hunger striker, was threatened with extradition from Bulgaria in December of 2015 when the Israeli state demanded his arrest. Zayed was … Long Live the Memory of Omar Nayef Zayed
In October 2013 Palestinian community leader and political activist Rasmea Odeh was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents and subsequently indicted in federal court on immigration fraud charges. The charges alleged that she failed to disclose that she was convicted by an Israeli military court in 1969 in her application for U.S. citizenship from … Victory for Rasmea Odeh, Hero of the People
Today, Wednesday February 24, the New York Post released an article regarding a letter that the Zionist Organization of America wrote to Chancellor Milliken of the City University of New York and its Board of Trustees, accusing Students for Justice in Palestine of Anti-Semitism and demanding the suspension of SJP chapters across CUNY. The 14-page letter, in the … The Real Story: The New McCarthyism and Repression of Palestine Activism at CUNY
On Tuesday February 16, Hunter Hillel in coordination with Hunter Students for Israel, Zionist Organization of America Campus, and United Jewish Appeal Federation of NY was to host Mordechai Kedar in an event called “Israel and Her Neighbors.” Mordechai, a former member of the Israeli Defense Forces and an Israeli professor, said regarding Palestinians: “The … Victory! SJP and Allies Pressure Stop Zionist Rape Advocate From speaking at Hunter
