A non-bully apologist, non-hierarchical group of diverse Hunter College students dedicated to advocate for the right of Palestinians to return to their home land, as well as the call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and against the Human rights abuses committed by Israel
Israeli Apartheid Week
Palestine and Gender Empowerment in the Fight for Liberation
In honor of International Women's Day, the Palestine Solidarity Alliance hosted an all women's panel on March 8th, 2018. The fight for Palestinian freedom is incomplete without gender freedom, and so is the fight for gender freedom incomplete without the fight for Palestine. This panel tackled the intersectionality of both struggles as we move forward with the movements for social justice.
Palestine 101 Jeopardy
National SJP Conference - Houston, Texas
PSA would like to thank all the individuals who have donated to our fundraiser which allowed for our members to embark on such an enlightening and educational trip.
PSA members at the National SJP conference in Houston, being held from Friday, October
27th-Sunday, October 29th, 2017!
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PSA members meeting with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, whom is anti-Zionist and pro-justice, at the National SJP Conference.
Solidarity between movements: BLM & Palestine
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We stand with our Black sisters and brothers
The Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College endorses the Vision for Black Lives platform created by the Movement for Black Lives Coalition.
We aspire to call for an end to named and unnamed wars against Black people, we call for reparations in response to hundreds of years of oppression, we call for an investment in resources to the Black community, and divestment from institutions harming economic justice. Moreover, we call for state and community initiative to break down racial hierarchy of the economy and brings Black representation, community control by having those directly impacted the most shape the rules of their lives, and political power to grant black self-determination.
We recognize that Palestinians and Black people suffer from similar forms of state-violence, such as surveillance, mass incarceration, settler colonialism, and police killings. Nonetheless, we unequivocally emphasize the differences between both struggles and various levels violence that exist between both causes particularly those pertaining to culture and shapes of institutional oppression. It is important not to equate these two struggles.
As a group part of a progressive movement, we underscore the importance of undoing white supremacy within our organization, most importantly by giving a voice to Black people, and other people of color. and by being cautious of exercising privilege amidst organizing with another. Within our meetings and gatherings, wel value leadership development, specially for Palestinians, Black people, and other people of color, and community-building above efficiency.
Moreover, we aim to actively support the work of Black-led organizations and organizers worldwide in a way that enables Black Power and amends the socialization of race relations.
We aspire to call for an end to named and unnamed wars against Black people, we call for reparations in response to hundreds of years of oppression, we call for an investment in resources to the Black community, and divestment from institutions harming economic justice. Moreover, we call for state and community initiative to break down racial hierarchy of the economy and brings Black representation, community control by having those directly impacted the most shape the rules of their lives, and political power to grant black self-determination.
We recognize that Palestinians and Black people suffer from similar forms of state-violence, such as surveillance, mass incarceration, settler colonialism, and police killings. Nonetheless, we unequivocally emphasize the differences between both struggles and various levels violence that exist between both causes particularly those pertaining to culture and shapes of institutional oppression. It is important not to equate these two struggles.
As a group part of a progressive movement, we underscore the importance of undoing white supremacy within our organization, most importantly by giving a voice to Black people, and other people of color. and by being cautious of exercising privilege amidst organizing with another. Within our meetings and gatherings, wel value leadership development, specially for Palestinians, Black people, and other people of color, and community-building above efficiency.
Moreover, we aim to actively support the work of Black-led organizations and organizers worldwide in a way that enables Black Power and amends the socialization of race relations.
From DACA to Palestine - No one is illegal
Special thanks to the individuals from Hunter College International Socialists Organization, as well as CRAASH: An Asian American Student Union.
We stand with all of the undocumented immigrants whom the Trump administration is trying to uproot from their homes within the United States after the recent rescindment of DACA, and we always stand with all of the Palestinians whom have been living in exile and as refugees since 1948 due to the violent occupation that has been upheld by the state of Israel.
The Palestine Solidarity Alliance's summer retreat of 2017
As Palestine activists, when we talk about the innocent lives of Palestinians stolen away through Israel's apartheid system, including most recently - Mohammed Taha of Kafr Qasim - we also remember the lives of innocent Black people stolen by murderous cops.
#PhilandoCastile #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #NoJusticeNoPeace #BlackLivesMatter
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From South Africa to Palestine to the U.S.
Education is a right
"From South Africa to Palestine to the U.S., education is a right.
Down with racial segregation in our schools.
Down with institutional barriers to our access to education.
Down with the checkpoints that Palestinian children have to pass through every day.
Down with the fees to our education.
Down with the school to prison pipeline."
#FeesMustFall #RightToEducation #FreePalestine #EndTuitionHikes
CUNY: Apartheid Divestment
Third press release
We, a diverse group of students at the City University of New York (CUNY), launch our campaign Apartheid Divest at CUNY to call upon the respective Undergraduate Student Governments of each university institution as well as the University Student Senate (USS) to urge the university to financially divest from companies presently complicit in, or profiting off of, the State of Israel’s ongoing system of military occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other human rights violations in Palestine/Israel.
We act in direct response to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) call, which was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations. BDSs call on Israel to comply with international law by (1) Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall, (2) Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and (3) Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
The specific corporations our resolution targets for divestment are Boeing, Caterpillar, Cemex, G4S, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Knafaim Holdings, Lockheed Martin, Motorola Solutions, and Northrop Grumman, Raytheon. Collectively, these companies perpetuate apartheid, genocide and human rights abuses by providing technology and resources used by the Israeli military and government to attack and kill Palestinian civilians, maintain and build the Apartheid Wall and checkpoints, and destroy Palestinian property for the purpose of building illegal settlements. For example, Boeing supplies aircraft, missiles, and weapons used to attack Palestinians in the occupied territories including during the 2014 summer assault on Gaza, which, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, damaged or destroyed over 144 kindergartens, killed 2,205 Palestinians, displaced over 500,000, and left 108,000 homeless. Cemex operates four factories on occupied land and produces concrete elements used in the construction of illegal settlements, the Apartheid Wall, and checkpoints; and G4S provides infrastructure to Israeli prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are held without trial and subject to torture and ill-treatment.
Unfortunately, CUNY has complicity in failing to take socially responsible stances. Our university has nearly $5 million worth of investments in fossil fuel companies and $275,000 in the private prison industry. It has kept silent about an NYPD undercover spy targeting Muslim students at Brooklyn College despite a 1992 memorandum of understanding [PDF] that barred New York City police from entering CUNY campuses without permission. Hunter College was under investigation for Title IX violations.
As students at CUNY, we know such history and such (in)actions are not neutral, or a mere byproduct of open discourse. We feel compelled to work to change this legacy and put the college on the right side of history. As the recent victory with the passing of a resolution in support of the Academic Boycott of Israel at the CUNY Graduate Center demonstrated, sustained organizing and activism works, and can enact supposedly impossible change at our institution.
Because of our powerful belief in justice and equity for all people, we are proud to bring our resolution calling for divestment from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid before our Student Government this spring semester. We urge other members of the university community, including students, former students, faculty, and alumni, to support us as well by signing our petition and checking out other ways to get involved.
We act in direct response to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) call, which was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations. BDSs call on Israel to comply with international law by (1) Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall, (2) Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and (3) Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
The specific corporations our resolution targets for divestment are Boeing, Caterpillar, Cemex, G4S, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Knafaim Holdings, Lockheed Martin, Motorola Solutions, and Northrop Grumman, Raytheon. Collectively, these companies perpetuate apartheid, genocide and human rights abuses by providing technology and resources used by the Israeli military and government to attack and kill Palestinian civilians, maintain and build the Apartheid Wall and checkpoints, and destroy Palestinian property for the purpose of building illegal settlements. For example, Boeing supplies aircraft, missiles, and weapons used to attack Palestinians in the occupied territories including during the 2014 summer assault on Gaza, which, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, damaged or destroyed over 144 kindergartens, killed 2,205 Palestinians, displaced over 500,000, and left 108,000 homeless. Cemex operates four factories on occupied land and produces concrete elements used in the construction of illegal settlements, the Apartheid Wall, and checkpoints; and G4S provides infrastructure to Israeli prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are held without trial and subject to torture and ill-treatment.
Unfortunately, CUNY has complicity in failing to take socially responsible stances. Our university has nearly $5 million worth of investments in fossil fuel companies and $275,000 in the private prison industry. It has kept silent about an NYPD undercover spy targeting Muslim students at Brooklyn College despite a 1992 memorandum of understanding [PDF] that barred New York City police from entering CUNY campuses without permission. Hunter College was under investigation for Title IX violations.
As students at CUNY, we know such history and such (in)actions are not neutral, or a mere byproduct of open discourse. We feel compelled to work to change this legacy and put the college on the right side of history. As the recent victory with the passing of a resolution in support of the Academic Boycott of Israel at the CUNY Graduate Center demonstrated, sustained organizing and activism works, and can enact supposedly impossible change at our institution.
Because of our powerful belief in justice and equity for all people, we are proud to bring our resolution calling for divestment from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid before our Student Government this spring semester. We urge other members of the university community, including students, former students, faculty, and alumni, to support us as well by signing our petition and checking out other ways to get involved.
1000 Nights of Resistance
Hunter College Apartheid Divest Campaign Launched
30 November 2016
We, a diverse group of students at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), launch our newest campaign Hunter College Apartheid Divest to call upon the Undergraduate Student Government to pass a resolution urging the university to financially divest from companies presently complicit in, or profiting off of, the State of Israel’s ongoing system of military occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other human rights violations in Palestine/Israel. We act in direct response to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations. The BDS movement calls on Israel to comply with international law by (1) Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall, (2) Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and (3) Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
The specific corporations our resolution targets for divestment are Boeing, Caterpillar, Cemex, G4S, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Knafaim Holdings, Lockheed Martin, Motorola Solutions, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Sabra Hummus. Collectively, these companies perpetuate apartheid, genocide and human rights abuses by providing technology and resources used by the Israeli military and government to attack and kill Palestinian civilians, maintain and build the Apartheid Wall and checkpoints, and destroy Palestinian property for the purpose of building illegal settlements. For example, Boeing supplies aircraft, missiles, and weapons used to attack Palestinians in the occupied territories including during the 2014 summer assault on Gaza, which, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, damaged or destroyed over 144 kindergartens, killed 2,205 Palestinians, displaced over 500,000, and left 108,000 homeless. Cemex operates four factories on occupied land and produces concrete elements used in the construction of illegal settlements, the Apartheid Wall, and checkpoints; and G4S provides infrastructure to Israeli prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are held without trial and subject to torture and ill-treatment.
Unfortunately, CUNY has complicity of failing to take socially responsible stances. Our university has nearly $5 million worth of investments in fossil fuel companies and $275,000 in the private prison industry. It has kept silent about an NYPD undercover spy targeting Muslim students at Brooklyn College despite a 1992 memorandum of understanding [PDF] that barred New York City police from entering CUNY campuses without permission. Our own college was under investigation for Title IX violations.
As students at Hunter College, we know such history and such (in)actions are not neutral, or a mere byproduct of open discourse. We feel compelled to work to change this legacy and put the college, on the right side of history. As the recent victory with the passing of a resolution in support of the Academic Boycott of Israel at the CUNY Grad Center demonstrated, sustained organizing and activism works, and can enact supposedly impossible change at our institution.
Because of our powerful belief in justice and equity for all people, we are proud to bring our resolution calling for divestment from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid before our Student Government this spring semester. We urge other members of the college community, including students, former students, faculty, and alumni, to support us as well by signing our petition and checking out other ways to get involved!
#HunterApartheidDivest
#FreePalestine
We, a diverse group of students at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), launch our newest campaign Hunter College Apartheid Divest to call upon the Undergraduate Student Government to pass a resolution urging the university to financially divest from companies presently complicit in, or profiting off of, the State of Israel’s ongoing system of military occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other human rights violations in Palestine/Israel. We act in direct response to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations. The BDS movement calls on Israel to comply with international law by (1) Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall, (2) Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and (3) Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
The specific corporations our resolution targets for divestment are Boeing, Caterpillar, Cemex, G4S, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Knafaim Holdings, Lockheed Martin, Motorola Solutions, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Sabra Hummus. Collectively, these companies perpetuate apartheid, genocide and human rights abuses by providing technology and resources used by the Israeli military and government to attack and kill Palestinian civilians, maintain and build the Apartheid Wall and checkpoints, and destroy Palestinian property for the purpose of building illegal settlements. For example, Boeing supplies aircraft, missiles, and weapons used to attack Palestinians in the occupied territories including during the 2014 summer assault on Gaza, which, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, damaged or destroyed over 144 kindergartens, killed 2,205 Palestinians, displaced over 500,000, and left 108,000 homeless. Cemex operates four factories on occupied land and produces concrete elements used in the construction of illegal settlements, the Apartheid Wall, and checkpoints; and G4S provides infrastructure to Israeli prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are held without trial and subject to torture and ill-treatment.
Unfortunately, CUNY has complicity of failing to take socially responsible stances. Our university has nearly $5 million worth of investments in fossil fuel companies and $275,000 in the private prison industry. It has kept silent about an NYPD undercover spy targeting Muslim students at Brooklyn College despite a 1992 memorandum of understanding [PDF] that barred New York City police from entering CUNY campuses without permission. Our own college was under investigation for Title IX violations.
As students at Hunter College, we know such history and such (in)actions are not neutral, or a mere byproduct of open discourse. We feel compelled to work to change this legacy and put the college, on the right side of history. As the recent victory with the passing of a resolution in support of the Academic Boycott of Israel at the CUNY Grad Center demonstrated, sustained organizing and activism works, and can enact supposedly impossible change at our institution.
Because of our powerful belief in justice and equity for all people, we are proud to bring our resolution calling for divestment from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid before our Student Government this spring semester. We urge other members of the college community, including students, former students, faculty, and alumni, to support us as well by signing our petition and checking out other ways to get involved!
#HunterApartheidDivest
#FreePalestine
Israeli Apartheid Week at Hunter College - Press Release
20 March 2017
In light of Women’s History Month, we’d like to honor all the Palestinian women facing the brutal military occupation of Israel.
The Israeli apartheid system enforces brutal tactics including sexually harassing women at the numerous checkpoints across the illegally occupied West Bank, forcing women to give birth at the checkpoints and at times making them lose their fetuses. Moreover, Palestinian women are barred from access to healthcare and are either forced into poverty, because the Zionist regime seeks to exclude them from labor, or are exploited by the economic system that derives them from equal labor rights. We also stand in solidarity with the refugee women who have been denied the right to return to their homeland as stipulated in UN Resolution 194 and forced to live in refugee camps over the past 68 years. We march with Rasmea Odeh, who survived the sexual, physical and psychological violence by the Israeli prison system, and for all her life has not given up on organizing for Palestinian rights of liberation, justice and return. This icon of resistance is now facing charges by the U.S. federal system for failing to disclose on her immigration application that she was falsely accused of of participating in bombings in Israel, where 99% of “convicts” are brought to military courts with no due process and convicted. Rasmea is under attack by Israel’s biggest ally - the United States - because she is Palestinian, and because of the multiple gains she contributed for social justice. We ask all our friends and allies to donate to her campaign. Angela Davis, a pioneer woman activist for racial justice activism, claimed "Women's rights are human rights all over the planet and that is why we say freedom and justice for Palestine”. As Angela has been a proud supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions call against Israeli Apartheid, we call on all our friends and allies to support our divestment campaign. BDS is far from the ceiling, and although it is not the only way to achieve Palestine liberation, it grants the floor to push forward the recognition of Palestinian rights, as well as derail ourselves from complicity, at an institutional level. Because over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations, including refugees, unions, coalitions, teachers, health workers, farmers, the disabled, popular committees, prisoners, cultural workers, environmentalists, scientists, and women, have all called on people of conscience around the world to listen to their call, we ask you to sign our petition and check out other ways to get involved.
#CUNYApartheidDivest #HunterApartheidDivest #FreePalestine
In light of Women’s History Month, we’d like to honor all the Palestinian women facing the brutal military occupation of Israel.
The Israeli apartheid system enforces brutal tactics including sexually harassing women at the numerous checkpoints across the illegally occupied West Bank, forcing women to give birth at the checkpoints and at times making them lose their fetuses. Moreover, Palestinian women are barred from access to healthcare and are either forced into poverty, because the Zionist regime seeks to exclude them from labor, or are exploited by the economic system that derives them from equal labor rights. We also stand in solidarity with the refugee women who have been denied the right to return to their homeland as stipulated in UN Resolution 194 and forced to live in refugee camps over the past 68 years. We march with Rasmea Odeh, who survived the sexual, physical and psychological violence by the Israeli prison system, and for all her life has not given up on organizing for Palestinian rights of liberation, justice and return. This icon of resistance is now facing charges by the U.S. federal system for failing to disclose on her immigration application that she was falsely accused of of participating in bombings in Israel, where 99% of “convicts” are brought to military courts with no due process and convicted. Rasmea is under attack by Israel’s biggest ally - the United States - because she is Palestinian, and because of the multiple gains she contributed for social justice. We ask all our friends and allies to donate to her campaign. Angela Davis, a pioneer woman activist for racial justice activism, claimed "Women's rights are human rights all over the planet and that is why we say freedom and justice for Palestine”. As Angela has been a proud supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions call against Israeli Apartheid, we call on all our friends and allies to support our divestment campaign. BDS is far from the ceiling, and although it is not the only way to achieve Palestine liberation, it grants the floor to push forward the recognition of Palestinian rights, as well as derail ourselves from complicity, at an institutional level. Because over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations, including refugees, unions, coalitions, teachers, health workers, farmers, the disabled, popular committees, prisoners, cultural workers, environmentalists, scientists, and women, have all called on people of conscience around the world to listen to their call, we ask you to sign our petition and check out other ways to get involved.
#CUNYApartheidDivest #HunterApartheidDivest #FreePalestine
Apartheid Divest at Hunter College - Second Press Release
15 February 2017
After launching Apartheid Divest at Hunter College last November, we continue to call upon the Undergraduate Student Government to pass a resolution urging the university to financially divest from companies presently complicit in, or profiting off of, the State of Israel’s ongoing system of military occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other human rights violations in Palestine. We reiterate: the specific corporations our resolution targets for divestment are Boeing, Caterpillar, Cemex, G4S, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Knafaim Holdings, Lockheed Martin, Motorola Solutions, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Sabra Hummus.
We have communicated with the USG, and we have been informed that the resolution will be voted upon by the executive board in order to have its name on it. Once passed, it will proceed to a senate hearing that will ultimately decide whether the resolution is official. We look forward to bringing the resolution this semester, and will update the public on the developments.
With the rise of extremism in the United States, we emphasize on its parallel with the extremism Palestinians have been forever facing in their occupied land. For 68 years up to this date, displaced Palestinians and Palestinian refugees have faced a travel ban to go back to their homes, land, and properties that they are indigenous to. It’s a common struggle to say that there should be no bans, neither on Palestinians to go back to their land as stipulated in UN Resolution 194 nor on Muslim immigrants or refugees coming into the United States as a result of U.S. foreign policies. Just as there should be no Apartheid Wall to separate indigenous Palestinians from Israelis on stolen Palestinian land, there should be no separation wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. As we act in direct response to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) call, which was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 and endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations, we acknowledge that we are on indigenous land and we proclaim our committed solidarity with the Sioux Tribe in Standing Rock, with our Black brothers and sisters in struggle, with our immigrant sisters and brothers in struggle facing raids and deportations from ICE, with our Yemeni sisters and brothers facing criminal U.S. military raids, and with all other communities resisting institutionalized racism.
Because of our belief for justice and equity for all people, we urge members of the college community, including students, former students, faculty, and alumni, to support us by signing our petition and checking out other ways to get involved!
#HunterApartheidDivest
#FreePalestine
After launching Apartheid Divest at Hunter College last November, we continue to call upon the Undergraduate Student Government to pass a resolution urging the university to financially divest from companies presently complicit in, or profiting off of, the State of Israel’s ongoing system of military occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other human rights violations in Palestine. We reiterate: the specific corporations our resolution targets for divestment are Boeing, Caterpillar, Cemex, G4S, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Knafaim Holdings, Lockheed Martin, Motorola Solutions, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Sabra Hummus.
We have communicated with the USG, and we have been informed that the resolution will be voted upon by the executive board in order to have its name on it. Once passed, it will proceed to a senate hearing that will ultimately decide whether the resolution is official. We look forward to bringing the resolution this semester, and will update the public on the developments.
With the rise of extremism in the United States, we emphasize on its parallel with the extremism Palestinians have been forever facing in their occupied land. For 68 years up to this date, displaced Palestinians and Palestinian refugees have faced a travel ban to go back to their homes, land, and properties that they are indigenous to. It’s a common struggle to say that there should be no bans, neither on Palestinians to go back to their land as stipulated in UN Resolution 194 nor on Muslim immigrants or refugees coming into the United States as a result of U.S. foreign policies. Just as there should be no Apartheid Wall to separate indigenous Palestinians from Israelis on stolen Palestinian land, there should be no separation wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. As we act in direct response to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) call, which was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 and endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties and organizations, we acknowledge that we are on indigenous land and we proclaim our committed solidarity with the Sioux Tribe in Standing Rock, with our Black brothers and sisters in struggle, with our immigrant sisters and brothers in struggle facing raids and deportations from ICE, with our Yemeni sisters and brothers facing criminal U.S. military raids, and with all other communities resisting institutionalized racism.
Because of our belief for justice and equity for all people, we urge members of the college community, including students, former students, faculty, and alumni, to support us by signing our petition and checking out other ways to get involved!
#HunterApartheidDivest
#FreePalestine
