Berkeley FSJP

FSJP and SJP will participate in the Berkeley leg of the pilgrimage today. Meet us at Sather Gate at 4:30pm. See you there!

🚶🏽‍♀️ Join us TODAY for the Right of Return Pilgrimage — a 22-mile journey from the Islamic Center of Alameda to the West Berkeley Shellmound.
We walk in public witness for the Palestinian Right of Return.
📲 Register here: bit.ly/RightofReturnPilgrimage
#I4CPilgrimage2025

“It is a waste of resources and a distraction from atrocities,” UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini told @reuters.com about Israel’s aid distribution model in #Gaza.
"It does not align with core humanitarian principles".

Full article: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Thursday 4/17 UC Berkeley Prof Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social will be speaking at our Rally in honor of the AAUP National Day of Action for Higher Education. Come out and defend Public Education! 12:00pm Mario Savio Steps at the home of the Free Speech Movement @aaup.bsky.social #berkeley

Black and white image shows an illustrated rendition of the Berkeley clock tower (Campanile) with the Palestinian flag and text that reads "TO DEFEAT FASCISM, WE MUST CENTER PALESTINE. UC BERKELEY FACULTY & STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE"

Black and white illustration of a trojan horse with text over it that reads "DOJ investigations of college campuses engaged in pro-Palestinian activist. Gutting the welfare state, defunding universities, attacking minority communities," being pulled by a figure representing Trump and welcomed by the American people.

Remember to join FSJP TOMORROW 4/17 (12-2pm) at Sproul Plaza for a rally and Palestine-centered teach ins as part of the National Day of Action for Higher Ed! We'll be distributing copies of our NEW ZINE you have to see.

Mohsen Mahdawi at a Nov 2023 rally:

"The first to stop an act of antisemitism was 5 of us—to go and tell the guy, ‘You don’t represent us because we have Jewish brothers & sisters who stand with us," arguing neither admin nor pro-Israel crowd moved to intervene

Mahmoud Khalil standing right behind

A red background. Black text on a white banner reads "NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION SPONSORS" 18 Sponser logos are displayed on a white rectangle, including the American Association of University Professors, Faculty for Justice in Palestine Network, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, Palestine Legal, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Middle East Studies Association.

White text on a green background reads "In commemoration of the beginning of the Columbia encampment on April 17, 2024 and in honor of Palestinian prisoners day, we envision April 17 as part of an arc of escalating actions for collective liberation in and beyond higher-ed."

White text on a green background reads "We stand against the neoliberal and colonial logic of higher ed that represses speech and academic freedom in the US and that enables genocide, carceral tactics, and the long-running destruction of education and historical memory in Gaza and throughout Palestine."

A black banner with white text reads " Statement from the Coalition for Action in Higher Ed" on this and the following two slides. White text on a green background reads "We, a collective of academic workers, students, union members, and activists within multiple higher education associations and unions, trade unions, and other organizing spaces, call for a coordinated national direct action in protest of the ongoing genocide abroad and the escalating repression at home."

White text on a red background, reading "UC Berkeley FSJP will participate in a National Day of Action rally and teach-in fair organized by Berkeley Faculty for the Freedom To Learn (BFF2L). FSJP teach-ins will focus on connections between Palestine and various fields of study here at Cal. Join us for an afternoon of Palestine-centered learning, and pick up a copy of our new zine!" In the lower-left there is a picture of a black and white zine cover reading " To defeat fascism, we must center Palestine."

A photo of a rally with attendees holding up signs, including several posters reading "Release Mahmoud." Two red banners with white text overlay the photos, the top banner reads "National Day of Action April 17, 12-2 pm on Sproul Plaza" and the bottom banner reads "UC Berkeley FSJP stands with the Coalition for Action in Higher Ed." The top of each of the following slides reads "UC Berkeley Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine" in white text.

Join FSJP on Sproul Plaza, April 17 12-2pm for a series of Palestine-centered teach-ins!

We stand with SJP, Students For Liberation, and Berkeley Faculty for the Freedom To Learn (BFF2L) in our fight against fascist attacks on university campuses centered on targeting the pro-Palestinian movement.

Trump administration terminates visas for 19 members of UC Berkeley community “(UC Berkeley) is supporting those impacted in accordance with its long-standing procedure for a visa revocation,” said campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore in a statement.

Trump's tyranny continues:

"Nineteen members of the UC Berkeley community have had their visas terminated and non-immigrant status revoked this week. This includes 13 additional affected individuals after six were initially confirmed this weekend."

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident.

We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

In light of ICE unlawfully detaining student protesters, our UnHostile Campus Campaign is tracking schools that endanger, target, or suppress students speaking out against genocide.

If your administration has made your campus hostile, report it now: islamophobia.org/reportcampus

Microsoft has sacked Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal after they disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event in protest against its ties with the Israeli military, reports the Associated Press news agency.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4wgn3k

BREAKING: At least 58 Palestinians have been killed and 213 injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry aje.io/qz1ssk

"... it is the highest honor of our lives to struggle for the cause of Palestinian liberation. The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

UN says 100 children killed or injured in Gaza every day since war resumed Palestinian and UN bodies mark Palestine Children’s Day with ‘harrowing’ accounts of toll of Israel’s war on children.

In 18 months, Israel has killed 17,000+ children, making them one of the most targeted groups in its genocide.

1,100 have been taken captive & 39,000 have lost one or both parents. We owe it to these children to demand an end to Israel’s violence.