Solidarity articles
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Pro-Palestine supporters organize on Pentacrest for three-day solidarity event
Nearly 100 pro-Palestine protesters amassed on the Pentacrest Friday, starting day one of a three-day event in solidarity for student encampments across college campuses in the U.S. Led by activist group Iowa City Students for Justice in Palestine –– an organization that is unaffiliated with the UI –– protesters participated in discussions, prayer, an art
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Students gather on Pentacrest for ‘People’s University for Palestine’ solidarity event
Activism group Iowa City Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting a three-day solidarity event for student encampments at U.S. universities to voice dissent for the Israel-Hamas war amid national protests and arrests. The event is scheduled from 12-7 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the University of Iowa Pentacrest. A few dozen Iowa
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Derry branch of Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign to mark 76th anniversary of Nakba
‘Nakba’, translated from Arabic means ‘catastrophe’, and relates to the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in 1948 during the Palestinian war. At the end of the war, according to the United Nations, there was a ‘permanent displacement of more than half of the Palestinian population’. Currently, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), ‘more than 5 million Palestine refugees are scattered throughout the Middle East’. "Today, Palestinians...