The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-sjp/)
Cornell students in support of Palestine accused the University of silence following threats toward Palestinian students and allies, as well as criticizing their response to the Israel-Hamas war and ties to Israel.
Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a rally on Oct. 18 in support of Palestinians impacted by the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
On Oct. 13, roughly 200 members of the Cornell community gathered at a vigil hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine to mourn and condemn President Pollack’s statements on the Israel-Hamas War.
Student supporters of Israel and Palestine each fought for control of the room at the Student Assembly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 12 in the first on-campus interaction between the two groups since the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East on Saturday, Oct. 7.
Not a day passes without Israel escalating its assault on the Palestinian people. The 2018 Nation State Law has drawn mass outrage from Palestinians and ethno-religious minorities such as the Druze and Coptic Christians and Israeli Jews. Despite the law’s virtual confirmation of Israel as a racialized apartheid state, the United States has been steadfast in their support for the occupying regime. Since Israel’s origin, the state has dispossessed countless Palestinians through violent means, starting with the 1948 al-Nakba (“The Catastrophe”) in which nearly a million indigenous Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes or otherwise murdered by Zionist militias. The U.S. shares a common history with Israel as a fellow settler-colonial project rooted in genocide, making the countries’ current close relationship unsurprising.