Tuesday, November 30th: Film Screening + Discussion of Occupation 101 Want to learn more about what you saw last week during C-SJP’s mock checkpoint? Have friends that are curious about Palestine but need more background info? Come for a screening of Occupation 101, a thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root…
C-SJP mock checkpoint featured on EI
In New York City, students created a mock Israeli checkpoint in the middle of campus at Columbia University on 18 November. The students aimed to highlight the daily abuses that occur at Israeli military checkpoints across the occupied West Bank. The action was organized during a week of events centered around the international Right to…
VIDEO: Mock Israeli Checkpoint at Columbia University
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Press Release: Right to Education Week Mock Israeli Checkpoint
C-SJP organized a mock Israeli checkpoint on Low Plaza as part of Right to Education Week.
Mock Israeli Checkpoint & Un-Euphemizing Palestine
Thursday, 11/18 Two Right to Education Week Events at Columbia University: Mock Israeli Checkpoint Action, 11:30am Low Plaza Steps, Columbia University Columbia University Students for Justice in Palestine (C-SJP) will be constructing a theatrical mock Israeli checkpoint at the Morningside campus on the Low Library steps. This checkpoint will serve as a demonstration of the…
Right To Education Week Schedule of Events:
a Call To Action from students in Occupied Palestine November 15: Speak or be Spoken for: When: 8:00PM-10:00pm, Where: NYU Silver Center Room # 714 (100 Washington Square East) Join us for panel discussion featuring four Palestinians each representing a different narrative of the Palestinian experience: Nada Matta, a Palestinians citizen of Israel from Mi’ilya, Ahmad Diab, of the refugee camp of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Students denounce demonization of student activism by Anti-Defamation League CONTACTS BY REGION: EAST COAST: Yaman Salahi [Connecticut]: 203-491-0092, yaman.salahi@yale.edu Alex Cachinero-Gorman [Massachusetts]: 908-705-6033, alex.cachinerog@gmail.com MIDWEST: Andrew Dalack [Michigan]:734-645-6860, ajdalack@umich.edu Sami Kishawi [Illinois]:773-822-8157, kishawisami@gmail.com WEST COAST: Lana Khoury [California] 650-274-9085, lkhoury06@gmail.com Gabriel Schivone [Arizona]: 520-302-6006, gabrielm@email.arizona.edu On campuses around the country, groups promoting Palestinian freedom respond to attack by the…
Explore What’s Yours or What’s Palestinian?
By Dina Omar, published Oct 12, 2010 in the Columbia Spectator “Explore What’s Yours”: This is the slogan of MASA Israel Journey, Barnard and Columbia’s new partner in a study abroad program. A close reading of the three-word phrase suggests a multitude of problematic ideas because it seems like a harmless catch phrase. However, after…
From Palestine to Oakland: The Fight to Free Political Prisoners
Fall 2010 Meet and Greet/Screening of Slingshot Hip Hop
To kick off the fall semester, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine will be having its first official meeting on Monday September 27th followed by a screening of multiple award-winning documentary Slingshot Hip Hop. Join us on Monday Sept 27th from 8-10 PM at 603 Hamilton Hall, learn about our plans for the year, have…