(09.05.2024)
There were again pro-Palestinian protests at universities in Amsterdam and Utrecht overnight.
Archiv: 17-04-2024: US students begin encampments against the Palestine War / nationwide movement / Biden on 01-05-2024: „order must prevail“ / raids and mass arrest / international movement
Video: Amsterdam riot police strike Gaza protestors as university occupation broken up
(08.95.2024)
Police in Amsterdam began breaking up the occupation of University of Amsterdam buildings in the city center on Wednesday. The Binnengasthuis and other university buildings were squatted a day earlier by hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had marched there from the university’s Roeterseiland campus on Tuesday afternoon.
Police make arrests, break up pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at University of Amsterdam
(07.05.2024)
Some 125 activists were arrested as police broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam in the early hours of Tuesday, as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread into Europe.
Pro-Palestinian protests spread across European universities
(07.05.2024)
Demonstrations have taken place in Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam and Belgium, where students have set up encampments and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Violent clashes erupted in Amsterdam and authorities said at least 125 people were detained. In Berlin, students formed a human chain to protect their camp while police detained several people. The protests are in response to Israel‘s bombardment of Gaza.
Anti-Genocide Students Are Fulfilling Their Duty to Prevent War Crimes; Will You?
In a world order in which the Great Powers and many lesser ones are turning to war and genocide, popular enforcement of international law is one of the few means for protecting ourselves and the world against a cataclysmic plunge into unlimited military destruction.
By virtue of the U.S. Constitution, international law and international treaties are explicitly a part of U.S. law. U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson stated, “The very essence of the Nuremberg Charter is that individuals have international duties which transcend national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual state.” So, obligations under international law are also obligations under U.S. law.
Protesters arrested in waves following second encampment
According to a statement from University Spokesperson Edward Blaguszewski, 109 people have been booked as a result of the encampment, and around 25 people are waiting to be processed.
Blaguszewski’s statement read: “As chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees, I want to offer the Board’s full and unwavering support for Chancellor Javier Reyes,” said Chairman Stephen Karam. “We have absolute confidence in his leadership, his integrity, and his commitment to our students.”
Police arrest 130 at UMass Amherst; College says protesters refused to take down encampment
Police arrested about 130 people at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Tuesday night after the college says pro-Palestinian protesters refused to take down an encampment on campus and leave the area.
UMass has not said what the protesters are charged with, but 109 have been booked by campus police as of Wednesday morning and there are charges pending for about 25 more.
Polizei räumt Protestcamp an FU Berlin
(07.05.2024)
Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister Kai Wegner (CDU) hat die FU-Besetzung durch pro-palästinensische Aktivisten verurteilt. „Wir dürfen auch an den Hochschulen nicht wegschauen, wenn antisemitische Parolen und Judenhass an den Universitäten verbreitet werden“, sagte der CDU-Politiker am Dienstag. Er sei der Universität für ihr Vorgehen sehr dankbar: „Ich finde dieses konsequente Vorgehen völlig richtig.“
Auch Wissenschaftssenatorin Ina Czyborra (SPD) verurteilte die Besetzung des FU-Hofes scharf.
Pro-Palestinian protests sweep Europe
German police broke up a protest by between sixty and eighty pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard on Freie Universität Berlin’s campus on Tuesday, May 7.
“An occupation is not acceptable on the FU Berlin campus,” university president Guenter Ziegler said.
More than 2,100 arrested at anti-Israel protests nationwide as police clear college encampments
– The initial arrests sparked a movement on college campuses across the country, including at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
– More than 2,100 protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, including students, faculty, and outside agitators.
Debunking three myths about pro-Palestine student protests in the US
Middle East Eye examines three of the most pervasive myths that have sought to discredit the pro-Palestine movement on campuses
From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest
“You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop,” he said. Soon the students would flood into a campus administration building.
That scene played out 60 years ago at the University of California, Berkeley. The words were directed at the university leadership, and referring to its restrictions on campus political activity. But the speech, from the student leader Mario Savio, and the sit-in that followed could have happened yesterday.
Our Campus. Our Crisis. Inside the encampments and crackdowns that shook American politics. A report by the staff of the Columbia Daily Spectator.
Written and reported by Isabella Ramírez, Amira McKee, Rebecca Massel, Emily Forgash, Noah Bernstein, Sabrina Ticer-Wurr, Apurva Chakravarthy, Esha Karam, Shea Vance, Sarah Huddleston, and Maya Stahl
Australian student protests show US campus divisions over Gaza war are going global
n the past 10 days, pro-Palestinian protest camps have appeared at seven universities around Australia – from Melbourne and Sydney in the country’s southeast, to Adelaide in its center, and Perth along the western coast.
They were erected in solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli siege in Gaza and student protesters in the United States.
And it’s not just Australia.
‚Show solidarity‘: Pro-Palestinian protesters camp across Australian universities
(03.05.2024)
Pro-Palestinian activists set up an encampment last week outside the sandstone main hall at University of Sydney, one of Australia‘s largest tertiary institutions.
Similar camps have sprung up at universities in Melbourne, Canberra and other Australian cities.
How pro-Palestinian camp, and an extremist attack, roiled the protest at UCLA
Questions continue to swirl about whether extremist groups are involved in the protests, which first drew national attention at Columbia University in New York, and whether the protests themselves include hate speech. But the UCLA protest was one that was conclusively influenced by a clash with extremist forces this week.
A day later, police wearing riot gear tore the camp down and arrested more than 200 people in the early hours of Thursday morning. USA TODAY reported from the scene. Here is what happened.
Police remove pro-Palestinian student protesters from Paris‘s Sciences Po university
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal‘s office said such protests would be dealt with using „total rigour“, adding that 23 university sites had been „evacuated“ on Thursday.
How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours
A New York Times examination of more than 100 videos from clashes at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that violence ebbed and flowed for nearly five hours, mostly with little or no police intervention. The violence had been instigated by dozens of people who are seen in videos counterprotesting the encampment.
The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons. As of Friday, no arrests had been made in connection with the attack.
300 Teilnehmer: Festnahmen bei Pro-Palästina-Demo an Humboldt-Uni
Wie ein Polizeisprecher dem rbb sagte, hatten sich etwa 300 Personen zunächst zu einer unangemeldeten Kundgebung im Ehrenhof der HU zusammengefunden. Weil es wiederholt volksverhetzende Parolen gegeben habe, seien demnach knapp 40 Freiheitsbeschränkungen eingeleitet worden, um Personalien aufzunehmen. Dabei habe es auch Widerstand und tätliche Angriffe auf Polizeibeamte gegeben.
I‘m a student who was arrested at a Columbia protest. I am not a hero, nor am I a villain.
Students in dorms craned their necks and shakily stretched their iPhones out windows to observe the impending attack.
We clung tighter to one another as they approached us, and seized us like rag dolls and slammed us into the hallowed ground of brick and concrete. But unlike rag dolls, we bleed, we crack, we bruise, we feel.
Encampment raid at NYU, hunger strike at Princeton as campus battles rage across US: Live updates
Arrests piled up at several colleges, 14 Princeton University students launched a hunger strike, and police raided an NYU encampment Friday in the latest battles on college campuses that have pitted university officials against their own students over the war in Gaza.
Biden and Harris Tweet Through It as Police Raid Anti-War Student Protests
Columbia called the NYPD on its own students Tuesday night for protesting Israel‘s war on Gaza. Similar raids have taken place at UCLA, USC, and NYU. The president and vice president responded with cringe tweets about women‘s rights and mental health.
Biden Condemned for Ahistorical and ‚Politically Suicidal‘ Attack on Campus Protests
„Biden‘s claim that ‚dissent must never lead to disorder‘ defies American history, from the Boston Tea Party to the tactics that civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and anti-apartheid activists used to confront injustice.“
Hundreds of protesters arrested at college campuses across the U.S.
Police said in a statement early Thursday that 90 people were arrested at Dartmouth College „for multiple offenses including criminal trespass and resisting arrest.“ Those arrested included both Dartmouth students and non-Dartmouth students, per the statement.
What else is happening: The NYPD said officers made several arrests at Fordham University on Wednesday evening, one day after they arrested 282 pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University and the City College of New York.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison said………..
“People Could Have Died”: Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment
We get an update from the University of California, Los Angeles, where police in riot gear began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday, using flashbang grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas, and arresting dozens of students. The raid came just over a day after pro-Israel counterprotesters armed with sticks, metal rods and fireworks attacked students at the encampment. The Real News Network reporter Mel Buer was on the scene during the attack. She describes seeing counterprotesters provoke students, yelling slurs and bludgeoning them with parts of the encampment’s barricade, and says the attack lasted several hours without police or security intervention. ”UCLA is complicit in violence inflicted upon protesters,” wrote the editorial board of UCLA’s campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin, the next day. Four of the paper’s student journalists were targeted and assaulted by counterprotesters while covering the protests.
Chancellor Block claims unsafe university conditions led to encampment closure
Chancellor Gene Block released a statement Thursday afternoon claiming that the Palestine solidarity encampment had been shut down because it led to unsafe university conditions and interfered with UCLA’s educational mission.
Block confirmed that more than 200 people were arrested, with more than 300 leaving voluntarily Thursday morning following a police sweep of the encampment. The dispersal followed an outbreak of violence on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, during which counter-protesters attacked the encampment using fireworks, tear gas and by throwing projectiles.
UCLA Pro-Palestinian Encampment Raided after Dispersal Order
Throughout the night and into the morning, students outside the encampment linked arms against the police and a small group of counter protesters, remaining peaceful. Around 1:20 a.m. police dressed in riot gear broke through the west barricade unexpectedly after a loud boom sounded from a flash-bang grenade. The protestors quickly formed a human chain, slowly pushing forward, and shouting “peaceful protest,” as well as phrases such as “shame on you.”
The students pushed the officers back, regaining control of the perimeter in approximately 30 minutes and rebuilding their barricades.
Police then began shooting fireworks into the air above protestors’ heads…
Biden says ‚order must prevail‘ during campus protests over the war in Gaza
President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the right to protest but insisted that „order must prevail“ as college campuses across the country face unrest over the war in Gaza.
„Dissent is essential for democracy,“ he said at the White House. „But dissent must never lead to disorder.“
Police officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Columbia building, prosecutors say
He did not provide additional details on the incident, which was first reported by news outlet The City.
The New York Police Department did not immediately respond to The Associated Press’ request for comment.
If you can’t join the encampment but are looking for other ways to support, consider these options!
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America‘s new generation of student protesters is giving hope to Palestinians
We raise our hats out of respect for them, as these protests in the universities and streets of the western world and the Global South keep the flame of hope burning in the souls of our people who long for freedom and justice.
These protests indicate profound, radical changes that separate an ageing American generation that blindly supports Israel and a new generation that promotes justice in Palestine and demands an end to the Israeli occupation and to the war on Gaza.
They represent the future of America and its bright face, the emergence of which we have long awaited.
UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Press Release
For over seven hours, zionist aggressors hurled gas canisters, sprayed pepper spray, and threw fireworks and bricks into our encampment. They broke our barriers repeatedly, clearly in an attempt to kill our community.
Campus safety left within minutes, external security the university hired for “backup” watched, filmed, and laughed on the side as the immediate danger inflicted upon us escalated. Law enforcement simply stood at the edge of the lawn and refused to budge as we screamed for their help. The only means of protection we had was each other. WE KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE.
UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Press Release
For over seven hours, zionist aggressors hurled gas canisters, sprayed pepper spray, and threw fireworks and bricks into our encampment. They broke our barriers repeatedly, clearly in an attempt to kill our community.
Campus safety left within minutes, external security the university hired for “backup” watched, filmed, and laughed on the side as the immediate danger inflicted upon us escalated. Law enforcement simply stood at the edge of the lawn and refused to budge as we screamed for their help. The only means of protection we had was each other. WE KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE.
Despite the danger, we refused to engage standing by the principles of our encampment—self defense. For all the school’s pretense of student safety, we have experienced an unprecedented amount of violence and hatred while they stood by. The university’s hypocrisy all too apparent, as signs of this escalation were reported, documented, and indicated early on. The zionist attacks, their use of chemical weaponry, their hatred, their destruction, are but a microcosm of the genocide in Gaza. The university would rather see us dead than divest.
Fight breaks out at UCLA; Fireworks thrown at pro-Palestine tents
Multiple fights broke out in dueling protests between Israel and Palestine protesters.
Pro-Israel counter-protesters attempt to storm encampment, sparking violence
Fireworks, tear gas and fights broke out just after 10:50 p.m. Tuesday night and continued early Wednesday morning as around 100 pro-Israel counter-protesters attempted to seize the barricade around and storm the ongoing Palestine solidarity encampment in Dickson Plaza.
The chaos comes as Chancellor Gene Block faces criticism for improper handling of the encampment and the same day the university deemed the encampment to be unlawful, threatening students inside with suspension and expulsion. Security and UCPD both retreated as pro-Israel counter-protesters and other groups attacked protesters in the encampment – led by Students for Justice in Palestine and UC Divest Coalition at UCLA – that followed similar ones across the country.
Violence breaks out at UCLA after officials declare pro-Palestinian encampment ‘unlawful’
Just before midnight, a large group of counterdemonstrators, wearing black outfits and white masks, arrived on campus and tried to tear down the barricades surrounding the encampment. Campers, some holding lumber and wearing goggles and helmets, rallied to defend the encampment’s perimeter.
NOTICE: As the night progresses, we have received word from someone arrested inside of Hamilton that NYPD stormed the building and proceeded to tackle and body slam protesters, and attacked them with batons, shields, and sound grenades. We ask all Columbia affiliates in proximity to NYPD to continue recording whatever they can.
We have put up the most glorious fight. We did not allow the movement to end with a false deal from Columbia.
Keep all eyes on your comrades, mobilize to Columbia. If you are free, come to protect the encampment.
‚Never seen a response like this‘: CNN correspondent on NYPD action at Columbia
CNN‘s Shimon Prokupecz breaks down the NYPD‘s response at Columbia University, where police arrested dozens after the university requested their assistance to respond to on-campus protests.
Dozens arrested at Columbia University as NYPD clears occupied building
Over 100 protesters were arrested Tuesday at Columbia University and City College of New York, according to a law enforcement official.
Most of the arrests were made at Columbia, including about two dozen protesters who police say tried to prevent officers from entering the campus, the official said.
Student protesters at #UTAustin are being hit with pepper spray as they attempt to push police and state troopers off campus.
c/o Peter Holley, Texas Monthly
Professor Susan Bernofsky from Columbia university: “I do feel that the students are highly critical of Israeli politics, and I do not believe that is inherently antisemitic at all. And I do not feel threatened as a Jewish faculty member in any way by what’s happening on campus.”
Live Updates: Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campus
The protest was expanding after university officials had tried to ease the situation by suspending students who had refused to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment.
BREAKING: In a revolutionary nod to the 1968 uprisings, and in continuation of the campus legacy of resistance against complicity, Columbia students have begun occupying Hamilton Hall, the campus’s main administrative building, overseen by the university’s genocide profiteers.
WE WILL NOT STOP, WE WILL NOT REST. COLUMBIA: YOU WILL DIVEST!
Statement in solidarity with student protests for Gaza
We, the undersigned organizations, stand in solidarity with the students nationwide and globally who are bravely protesting in encampments and otherwise to condemn Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza–actions which human rights organizations, a federal U.S. court, and the International Court of Justice have said “plausibly” constitute genocide.
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In solidarity,
350.org US
18 Million Rising
198 methods
Adalah Justice Project
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
AF3IRM
Afghans For A Better Tomorrow
Alliance of Baptists
American Baptist Churches USA
American Friends Service Committee
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
American Muslim Bar Association
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action)
Arab American Civic Council
Arab American Institute
Asian American Advocacy Fund
Better to Speak
Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue without Walls
Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU)
Blue Future
Borderlands for Equity
Borderlands Resource Initiative
Brooklyn For Peace
CAIR Action
CAIR California
CAIR Minnesota
CAIR Oklahoma
CAIR-WA
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Cameroon American Council
Carceral Tech Resistance Network
Ceasefire Democrats
Ceasefire Now NJ
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Protest Law & Litigation @ Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
Chicago Area Peace Action
Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy
Christians for a Free Palestine
Civic Ark
Civil Liberties Defense Center
Clockshop
CommonDefense.us
Communities United for Status & Protection (CUSP)
Council on American-Islamic Relations
CWA-News Guild Local 38010
Defending Rights & Dissent
Delaware Democratic Socialists of America
Delawareans for Palestinian Human Rights
Detention Watch Network
Disciples Palestine Israel Network
Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM)
Doctors Against Genocide
Dream Defenders
Dutch Scholars for Palestine
Eindhoven Students 4 Palestine
En Conjunto
Faith for Black Lives
Faith in Texas
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Fight for the Future
For All
Freedom Oklahoma
Freedom To Thrive
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)
Future Coalition
Gen-Z for Change
Gender Justice Action and Gender Justice
Get Free
Global Campaign to Reclaim People‘s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power & Stop Impunity
Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine
Green New Deal Network
Greenpeace USA
Hawai‘i for Palestine
Health Justice Commons
Highlander Research and Education Center
Hindus for Human Rights
Historians for Peace and Democracy
IfNotNow Movement
IfNotNow New Jersey
Immigrant Defense Project
Immigrant Justice Network
Immigrants Act Now
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
Institute for Policy Studies New Internationalism Project
Interfaith Ceasefire
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
International Mayan League
InterReligious Task Force on Central America
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Islamophobia Studies Center
Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace-Hawai’i
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ)
Just Foreign Policy
Justice Democrats
Just Futures Law
Justice for All
Kairos USA
Libyan American Alliance
LittleSis / Public Accountability Initiative
Living Water Inclusive Catholic Community
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Make the Road Nevada
Malaya Georgia
Massachusetts Peace Action
Mennonite Action
Mennonite Action WA
Migrant Roots Media
Minnesota Peace Project
Mondoweiss
Movement for Black Lives
MPower Change Action Fund
MSA West
Muslim Advocates
Muslim Community Network
Muslim Counterpublics Lab
Muslim Power Building Project
Muslims for Just Futures
Muslims for Progressive Values
National Arab American Women’s Association (NAAWA)
National Iranian American Council
National Lawyers Guild
National Lawyers Guild – St. Louis Chapter
National Partnership for New Americans
New Hampshire Veterans for Peace
New York City Veterans For Peace
The New Justice Project Minnesota
North American Students of Cooperation
No Separate Justice
The Oakland Institute
Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Integrity/Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth
Our Revolution
Palestine American League
Palestine Legal
Palestinian Feminist Collective
Partners for Palestine
Pax Christi New York State
Pax Christi USA
Pediatricians for Palestine
Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies
Presbyterian Church (USA), Office of Public Witness
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
Project ANAR
Project South
Peace Action
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Reparation Education Project
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment
Rising Majority
RootsAction Education Fund
The Social Justice Center
Sound Vision
Starr King School for the Ministry
Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at the University of Hawai’i (SFJP)
Sunrise Movement
Sur Legal Collaborative
TakeAction Minnesota
Tech Justice Law Project
The Gathering for Justice
The Hague Peace Projects
Transnational Institute
The Uncommitted National Movement
UndocuBlack Network
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship
Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice
Unitarian Universalist Mass Action
Unitarian Universalist Peace Ministry Network
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Unitarian Universalist Young Adults for Climate Justice (UUYACJ)
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East
United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network
United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR)
Until Freedom
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
Veterans For Peace
We Are All America
The Whatcom Peace and Justice Center
Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center
Working Families Party
World BEYOND War
Young Democrats of America Black Caucus
Young Democrats of America Environmental Caucus
Youth Leadership Institute
185 Human Rights Groups Demand Universities End Crackdowns on Gaza Protests
A coalition of 185 social justice and religious groups published an open letter Monday expressing support for the campus protest encampments sweeping the country in opposition to Israel’s siege of Gaza, and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations.
Defending Academic Freedom at Rutgers in 2024
(April 10, 2024)
A statement of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT Executive Council and Academic Freedom Committee and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union Executive Board and Academic Freedom Committee
Since late 2023, Rutgers University has been the target of repeated attacks on academic freedom, including pressure from elected officials to limit the speech and activities of professors, students, academic centers, and departments at Rutgers. These attacks claim to be focused on antisemitism, but in fact they aim at a broad sweep of expression, seeking to stifle the free exchange of ideas that is at the core of Rutgers’ educational mission as the premier public university of New Jersey. To protect Rutgers’ academic mission, we speak out against attempts to infringe on free speech, research, teaching, and writing. We call on the Rutgers administration to do likewise and robustly defend our institution and targeted members of the Rutgers community.
Union Statement on the Student Protest in New Brunswick
The executive bodies of Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union have issued the following statement about the protest encampment set up on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus in New Brunswick:
Our unions support and defend our students’ and our members’ rights to free speech, free assembly, and free expression. If our students set up an encampment and exercise their right to peacefully protest, Rutgers AAUP-AFT and PTLFC will establish a faculty committee to monitor the situation and—if the administration makes it necessary—protect them from arrest and repression.
Nation’s largest nurses union stands in solidarity with campus protesters facing crackdowns and arrests
Nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU), the country’s largest union of registered nurses, stand in solidarity with student and faculty protesters at campuses across the United States facing a violent crackdown for speaking out against the mass killings and public health catastrophe in Gaza. Amid the on-going Israeli military campaign that has killed, injured, and displaced tens of thousands of Gazan civilians, nurses remain steadfast in our belief in the human rights to health, safety, free speech, collective action, and protest. NNU has called for and still calls for a permanent and lasting ceasefire in Gaza and the swift delivery of humanitarian aid in Palestine.