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I know this is letting lefties know what it’s like when their rules also apply to them but I think helping this be the new normal forever is going to explode in everyone’s face.Yeah I am sure this wont backfire.
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The leadership of Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine published the following statement: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/10/10/from-the-community-stanford-students-for-justice-in-palestine/
Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine: To the Stanford community and concerned individuals everywhere.
We, the members of Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), feel compelled to address the recent and ongoing injustices faced by the Palestinian people. As the world witnesses the atrocities committed in Palestine, it becomes increasingly clear that these events are not isolated incidents, but rather part of the protracted struggle against settler-colonial oppression. The media’s depiction of Saturday’s resistance as a one-off event is fundamentally reductionist: no conversation about Palestine can be conducted without the context of the decades of systematic oppression, discrimination and violence the Palestinian people have faced.
Israel currently places a “land, water and air” siege on the Gaza Strip. Regularly cutting off water and electricity, Israel vindictively rules and occupies the Gaza Strip. Israel also regularly forces Palestinian produce to spoil rather than allowing it to pass through checkpoints to where it can be sold. Israel’s choice to lay siege to Gaza has caused Gaza to become an “open-air prison,” a term being used by the Human Rights Watch. These conditions should provoke all of us to take action and fight for safety in the world.
We are embarrassed to live in a world that tolerates this level of consistent, systematic and unrelenting violence. The fact that people can be treated like this in the 21st century is a stain on our history.
Palestinians, like all peoples, have the legitimate right to resist occupation, apartheid and systemic injustice. Saturday’s events underscore the structural violence, displacement and daily hardships Palestinians have faced for decades under a regime that seeks to undermine their basic human rights and dignity. It is essential for us as an academic community and as global citizens to recognize the roots of this conflict. While it might be easy for some to view the issue as a distant geopolitical dispute, the reality is far simpler. Western media will hail the Ukrainians who defend their homeland as valiant heroes; however, there is a distinct double standard at play when it comes to the resistance of the Palestinian people against the settler colonialists of Israel.
Furthermore, while Palestinian resistance is legal under international law, Israel’s breathtakingly violent actions [are](https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949/article-33#:~:text=12 August 1949.-,Article 33 - Individual responsibility%2C collective penalties%2C pillage%2C reprisals,or of terrorism are prohibited.) illegal collective punishment under the Geneva Convention. For example, Israel’s destruction of Palestine Tower, a media and residential building, constitutes a war crime, since news and civilians are not legitimate military targets under U.N. law.
At its core, this message is about an oppressed population striving for equality, freedom and self-determination in the face of systemic subjugation. We are dismayed by the fact that institutions like Stanford, which proclaim values of justice, equality and human rights, continue to be entangled with companies and entities that directly or indirectly support the machinery of this oppression. Our association with such entities not only undermines our collective values but also tacitly condones the perpetuation of this injustice. Furthermore, between 2008 and 2020, Palestinians have endured 96% of the total casualties resulting from the conflict, demonstrating the one-sided nature of the situation.
We stand firmly with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, echoing their call for immediate action to cease all military, security and technological collaboration with those implicated in the ongoing colonization of Palestine. We also demand an end to any partnerships with companies that actively participate in the dispossession of Palestinians. We recognize the strength and resilience of the Palestinian people, who, despite facing overwhelming odds, continue to rise and assert their undeniable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Their resistance is not just a testament to their spirit but also a reminder of the universality of the human desire for justice and freedom. Injustice anywhere hurts all of us. The fact that Palestinians must endure such brutal conditions is an embarrassment to the modern human condition. The only thing that Israeli apartheid has succeeded in doing is creating violence and misery, which can be heard all around the world.
In solidarity with the Palestinian cause, we call upon the Stanford community and individuals everywhere to educate themselves, raise awareness and actively challenge complicity in this system of oppression.
Justice for Palestine is justice for all.
The leadership of Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine consists of:
- Lara Hafez, 2024
- Ronnie Hafez, 2025 (Stanford Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow)
Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine released the following statement:
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Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine: In Solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance
Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine affirms its resolute solidarity with Palestinians resisting the brutal Zionist state. Since early Saturday morning, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have valiantly confronted the imperial apparatus that has constricted their livelihoods for the past seventy-five years. In an unprecedented violation of Zionist intelligence and military rule, the resistance broke its people out of the open-air prison that is the Gaza Strip; many Palestinians saw their ancestral homelands in what is now referred to as “1948 lands,” or land taken during the Nakba, for the first time in nearly a century. Over 50% of Gaza’s population is children. Most have never stopped outside the imperialist prison walls that encage their homes. The Zionist government has replied to this legitimate resistance with its routine, unconscionable violence. Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine enshrines the right of the Palestinian people to resist the Zionist regime by any means necessary and honors the martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for liberation. We call on all Swarthmore community members to unite in solidarity with the plight of the oppressed and confront the dishonest, racist tropes that view resistance as barbaric and uncivilized only when it is exerted by indigenous peoples.
The Zionist regime’s murderous occupation has rendered a Palestinian response as inevitable as it is justified. Palestinians have, once again, under the most trying circumstances, offered a heroic example for those struggling toward global liberation. The Zionist regime has been unabashedly blockading Gaza since 2007; it has turned the narrow strip into an unlivable prison for two million Palestinians and a shooting gallery where Zionists test their world-class weaponry on us. Numerous reports show Zionist poisoning of Palestinian water and food supplies, extreme sexual abuse against men, women, and children, and destruction to levels such that Gazans find themselves in a consistent cycle of construction, investment, and enforced destruction. That our Palestinian comrades offer accounts of such brutal oppression renders a liberation struggle necessary. The Palestinian resistance is a response to the Zionist Entity’s state terrorism that has left over two million of our people languishing under starvation and terror. We condemn the inhumanity of the Zionist entity that promotes such evils in the ancestral homeland of Palestine.
On Monday, the Zionist entity declared a complete siege and “total war” on Gaza as it relentlessly bombarded the coastal enclave for the third consecutive day, abhorrently describing its residents as “human animals.” Nearly 700 Palestinians were martyred in the Zionist strikes by air, sea, and land. The Zionist forces pursued further regional declaration, moving tanks and soldiers to the border with Lebanon. At least 18 Palestinians in the West Bank have been martyred since Saturday. Zionist leaders continue to vow war crimes with genocidal language. As our Palestinian comrades in Gaza exhumed victims of Zionist strikes from the rubble, the Zionist defense minister cut food, water, and fuel supplies to the region; his very ability to do so offers adequate confirmation of the gross power differential at play.
The resistance employed by Palestinian factions represents revolutionary history. With them, we usher in a new era of our struggle. The resistance defies every colonial tool weaponized against us, and we hold our martyrs in glory. They have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our liberation. May their memories continue to inspire the resistance. Students for Justice in Palestine reiterate that decolonization is far from metaphor confined to the classroom. It is a material reality in which the colonized pursue the repatriation of indigenous land and life. Every colonized and oppressed people enjoys the right to resist; our bodies of international law, though they too often fail us, enshrine such a liberty.
At this historical moment, we look to valiant liberation struggles worldwide. In Algeria, Haiti, South Africa, and beyond, colonized people took arms against their colonizers in victory. They, too, were demeaned as “uncivilized,” “savages,” and “terrorists.” We refuse such abject misnomers. We maintain that every settler is an aggressive occupier, even as they sit comfortably in their stolen homes. There exists only a colonizer and colonized, an oppressed and an oppressor. To resist is to survive, and it is our right.
Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine maintains unwavering support for our people’s resistance. Every hopeful act draws us closer on the path of national—and, as such, global—liberation of our homeland(s). We refuse capitulation to the colonizer and its sympathizers. We reiterate the universal call to join us in solidarity with the liberation movement.
We will see a liberated Palestine within our lifetimes. The Zionist entity will fall. We will return to our homes again.
Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine
