Palestinians in Palestine and in exile are deeply grateful to the thousands of students who are building an unprecedented mass movement on US, European, Latin American, Australian and other campuses in solidarity with Palestinian liberation.
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“We cannot bomb our way to peace,” the statement from the association of professors says. The American Association of University Professors has signed on to a call by multiple American labor unions for a “ceasefire in Israel and Palestine.” It’s another example of an academic organization taking a political stand in a national debate in which university presidents, faculty members and students have been denounced for speaking up in certain ways or speaking up at all.
The neglect of Palestine’s humanitarian crisis and the continuity of Israeli apartheid in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, has never been more urgent. The inability to address the racist and classist policies of repressive states is only adding fodder to reactive extremism and eroding ideological diversity in anti-imperialist resistance.