The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) continue to voice Quaker concerns, especially in these traumatic times.
Category: resistance
Bowdoin student solidarity camp
The first student pro-Palestinian solidarity encampment under the Trump administration has begun in the past few days. I've been wondering when these solidarity encampments would appear again. In many ways the Trump administration has resulted in such actions carrying significantly greater risks.
Anti-Palestinian Racism
This visual in our series on anti-Palestinian racism captures the systemic abuse of disciplinary measures against Palestinian students and students who express solidarity with Palestinians on college campuses, creating an environment of fear that isolates them from campus life. Anti-Palestinian racism is one tool that reinforces a structure designed to weaken Palestinian resistance and obscure global awareness of the Palestinian struggle for justice and liberation.
The Hague Group
Nine nations are set to meet today, January 31, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands, launching The Hague Group with the goal of holding Israel accountable for its alleged violations of international law in the Gaza Strip. The nations aim to announce coordinated legal, economic, and diplomatic measures as part of their commitment to uphold Palestinian rights.
What happens to the money?
We can object to many of these policies on grounds of the impacts on social services, or being unjust, but I think that when the actual negative impact of these policies is felt by the public, that will be far more likely to result in resistance to those policies.