Why didn't the university simply send a militarized police force after the students?
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We defend their right to protest and affirm the righteousness of their demands: an end to Israel’s genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to the complicity of the US government and institutions in its apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
Tanaquil was a steering committee member of CFSA (which became the Coalition for a Free Southern Africa to call attention to other liberation struggles in the region, specifically Namibia) and one of the most prominent leaders of the movement during the blockade, along with Rob Jones, Whitney Tymas, Tony Glover and others.
He later co-founded the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement calling for ending international state, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s regime of oppression against Palestinians.
From 1968 to the 1980s to 2024, the often intersecting issues of war, racism and colonialism, took center stage in Columbia justice movements, reflecting larger campus and international struggles raging at the time.
Columbia’s suspension last year of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) sparked the growth of the already existing divestment coalition, which now coordinates the encampment.
Other than being inspired by the tactics of previous student struggles, Palestine solidarity activists today have learned from history that what seems impossible at a time of unspeakable pain and grief becomes possible through principled, strategic, inclusive and ethically consistent praxis.
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