Students for Justice in Palestine
“CRRRRUUUNNNCCCH.” That’s the awful sound of a Caterpillar Bulldozer demolishing a Palestinian’s home. It’s a sound heard all too often in Palestine. For the past sixty years, the Palestinian people have endured a long list of tragedies at the hands of the militaristic Zionist project: forcible expulsion from their homes, land theft, destruction of their olive trees, Apartheid, and military occupation.
But wait, it gets worse. YOUR taxpayer dollars fund the oppression!
That’s right, the U.S. Government currently gives three billion dollars in foreign aid every year to the state of Israel, the number one recipient of U.S. aid. Almost all of that money comes exclusively in the form of military hardware. The U.S. doesn’t just support Israel’s Apartheid – the U.S. supplies the guns and the tanks to make it possible.
Students for Justice in Palestine seeks to get UC to divest from Israel’s Apartheid. SJP assumes that students and faculty fundamentally object to a public university funding the ongoing Occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
SJP has brought prominent speakers to campus, such as Israeli refuseniks (persecuted in their country because of their refusal to participate in the Occupation of Palestine) and the headmistress of a Palestinian school. Our events are constantly generating discussion among the student population.
At its core SJP opposes all racism and oppression, and we will always make the extra effort to help our brothers and sisters who act in the name of social justice and indigenous rights. In April 2005 we organized with Xinaxtli in a united struggle against the imperialist arrogance of xenophobic policies and for immigrants’ rights. We are Jews and Muslims, Atheists, Arabs, and Americans of all backgrounds. (The majority of our membership is composed of non-Palestinians.)
We hope to see you at our next event. Check out www.calsjp.org, and be sure to read the new magazine the a-rab, www.a-rab.net.