2024-01-24 Emergency Protest: No Safety Without Divestment


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  • When: 2024-01-24

  • Where: Columbia University

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  • Protest flier (screenshot)

    • Instagram posts announcing the protest.

  • The gates were closed for this protest (email) 

  • Chants:

    • “Viva viva Intifada” (video, 0:48 seconds)

    • “Intifada Intifada. Long live the intifada” (1:00)

    • “Intifada Intifada. Globalize the intifada” (1:15)

    • “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” (1:19)

    • “There is only one solution-intifada revolution” (1:38)

    • In Arabic, “from the water to the water, Palestine will be Arab” (3:42)

    • “*IOF off campus now” (video, 1:20)

    • “Intifada intifada. Globalize the intifada” (2:10)

    • “Say it loud, say it clear–we don’t want no *IOF here” (video, 0:20)

    • “*IOF off campus now” (0:45; 1:45)

    • “From NY to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada” (1:10)

    • “Intifada intifada. Long live the intifada” (1:24)

    • “*IOF you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide” and “Say it loud, say it clear. We don’t want no *IOF here” (video)

    • “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – not the orange armbands (video)

  • Posters:

    • “IOF and NYPD off campus now” (picture)

  • Public health student from Columbia spoke and said that she was part of the team that put together the CUAD proposal. She said that the alleged skunk spray attack was a result of the University “Failing to delegitimize zionist groups.” She continued to say that the University “will take a check over the safety of their own students” (video).

  • One speaker asks everyone to record his speech and share it with the world. He introduces himself as Mohsen Mahdawi. He says “There is nothing more honorable than dying for a noble cause, for humanity, and for justice (~3:15) (video) “If we don’t die on our own, than someone has to eradicate us” (6:09) He mentions that “leaders in our movement” are being targeted: Maaryan from SJP, Layla, and 3 other leaders including myself. (6:35)

  • Protesters marched around campus banging on drums, yelling, and chanting (video).

    • “We want Justice, you say how. *IOF off campus now” (video)

    • “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” (video, video)

    • In Arabic, “From the water to the water, Palestine will be Arab (video)

    • “Intifada intifada. Long live the intifada” (video)

    • “There is only one solution, intifada revolution (video; 0:50). 

* IOF refers to the IDF, or as they call them “the occupation forces” 

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