Opinion: From Yale to Gaza, we are globalising the intifada

In the weeks following the establishment of the first Gaza solidarity encampment in the US, much has been written on the subject of chants, antisemitism and campus culture wars in an effort to shift focus away from the genocidal acts taking place on the ground in Palestine.

As students organising in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we understand that we must reject this discourse. Our duty is to keep our demands principled, our solidarity unconditional and to keep all our eyes on Gaza.

We refuse to spread the Israeli occupation’s propaganda, to condemn the Palestinian resistance, to decentre Palestine in our organising, or to allow Yale University to continue its complicity in the genocidal war on Gaza.

The encampments at Yale and other university campuses have demonstrated that the masses of students, faculty and workers in this country will not rest until institutions of higher education disclose their investments, divest from the Israeli occupation and all companies complicit in war and colonisation, and reinvest in our communities - or, in the case of this institution, pay its fair share in taxes to New Haven.

READ MORE: From Yale to Gaza, we are globalising the intifada, opinion by Craig Birckhead-Morton and Yasmin Zainab Bergemann