Pro-Palestinian Protests, US Universities

Anti-Israel students in US plan to bring in academic year with "strike for Palestine"

Student activists hope to pressure schools to divest from Israel by absenting themselves from campus, after tent encampments last semester failed to make schools heed their demands.

Pro-Palestinian encampment (Photo: lev radin/ Shutterstock)

Pro-Palestinian college students may opt to skip classes at the beginning of the fall semester as part of a nationwide student strike organized by the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA). The strike aims to reignite the anti-Israel protest movement that gained momentum at universities across the U.S. last academic year.

According to a report by The Free Press, the YDSA—a youth and student arm of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America—issued a resolution last month urging its more than 100 university chapters to participate in a “Student Strike for Palestine” at the start of the 2024-2025 school year.

The resolution encourages chapters to "organize democratically-run campaigns" advocating for their schools' divestment from Israel, a ceasefire in Gaza, and free speech on campus. The duration of the strike remains unclear. This planned action is part of a broader trend of left-wing activism on American college campuses protesting Israel’s military actions in Gaza, which intensified following the October 7 attack by Hamas.

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