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UF community responds to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
UF students have a history of being vocal about the conflict May 24, 2021 | 6:30am EDT
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, more than 200 UF students and Gainesville residents gathered on the corner of West University Avenue and Northwest 13th Street to show solidarity with Palestinians during the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Solidarity with Palestine protest was organized by UF Students for Justice in Palestine. Protestors chanted Free, Free, Palestine, listened to poetry and speeches, sang liberation songs and hoisted signs like occupation is a crime and defund Israeli apartheid. After about an hour, a small group of counter-protestors gathered across the street. One of their signs read Israel is not the oppressor. The pro-Palestine protest continued even after the sun went down and lasted for over two hours.
A spokesman for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the U.S President has invited him to visit the White House to discuss resuming peace talks in a telephone call Friday, the first contact between the two leaders since Trump took office in January. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh said President Trump invited the Palestinian leader to visit “soon.” He said. Israel Sep 16, 2016
In his landmark speech to the Arab world seven years ago, President Barack Obama warned that Israeli settlements on occupied territories were undermining hopes for peace. “It is time for these settlements to stop,” he declared. As Obama heads into the home stretch of his presidency, he leaves behind an unfulfilled vision. Not only did he fail to stop it,.