free palestine

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onto today’s topic: free palestine 🇵🇸 

i feel sickened, disappointed and enraged all-together. today marks the 8th month of the gaza genocide — palestinian families being torn apart, hospitals being bombed, and universities being purged. gaza is being gutted of life as you read this post on your phone.

we take to the streets wearing black, red, and green with fiery pride and determination. we demand divestment and ceasefire by singing petitions. we set up encampments and educate others with sincerity. we do it all in peace, with the ultimate goal of exactly that: peace and palestine’s freedom.

so, why is it that police are beating down our right to protest?  

flanked with police at both sides, do you feel powerful beating down students protesting for the lives of innocent palestinians?

your display of superiority and hypocrisy is shameful.

protests didn’t cause us to lose our faith in education. your smug grin as you watched students get shoved and core communities get shut down did. protestors are not disrupting education. stripping them of their safety and trust in education is. after all, isn’t education all about listening and understanding? what are institutions teaching us if they themselves cannot practice it? 🤨 

if you are prioritizing students’ safety, what about the palestinian students who watch institutions profit off the murder of their relatives? what about the marginalized students that find solace and community in the campus y? what about the students getting tear-gassed?

what are you really protecting?

protestors and police didn’t clash at unc. students were brutalized. the ucla encampment and zionists didn’t clash. the encampment was attacked with explosives and chemical weapons. columbia isn’t enforcing peaceful protest. they’re eradicating it entirely and silencing student voices

we’re upset. we’re heartbroken. we’re tired, but we won’t stop. we can’t.

from the river to the sea, palestine will be free.

free palestine. 🇵🇸 

if you are still unfamiliar with the gaza genocide, i implore you, please educate yourself.

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more than any link i’ve ever posted, the opportunity to take action is greater.

• sign this petition in support of unc divesting in israeli genocide

• call for a ceasefire by sending an email to congress

• if you are able, donate to the children’s emergency fund

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