After Squirrel Hill – October 29, 2018 Noah Kulwin

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Statement Regarding Tree of Life Synagogue Shootings on 26 October 2018

Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Vermont sends their unending support and solidarity to the Jewish community after this weekend’s atrocity. The uptick in right wing violence in the past several years has targeted Jews, Arabs, Muslims, people mistakenly classified as Muslims, and activists on the political left. All of our members fear and disdain these acts of violence and the reprehensible ideologies underpinning them. We must come together to fight neo-Nazism, white supremacy and antisemitism in America and around the world: and it begins here, on this campus. We stand with you against alt-right encroachments at our university and in our community. Bigotry and persecution will find no sanction with us.

We wish the Jewish community strength and healing. If you feel so inclined, please do not hesitate to reach out via message or email (sjp@uvm.edu) if you feel as though you would like to chat. As always, SJP welcomes students of all colors, classes, religions, and opinions at our meetings. SJP is a safe place for you to be who you are.

In solidarity,
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Vermont

On Indigenous People’s Day, we commemorate centuries of indigenous resistance to settlement and land theft since Columbus’ landing on October 12th 1492 and subsequent attempts at the occupation of Taino and Carib lands and the enslavement of their people. We condemn the continued oppression of the First Nations of the Americas, especially the funding of the Black Snake Keystone Pipeline through Sioux lands in South Dakota. The struggle against settler-colonialism, extraction and exploitation spans many miles and centuries, from Palestine to the Americas and in all the lands presently and formerly colonized. SJP stands in solidarity with the Abenaki, Navajo, Lakota, and all the peoples who survived the 300+ years of Columbus’s legacy of ethnic cleansing until today and abides by a constructive vision for reparations and decolonization for the internally repressed nations of the United States, Canada and all remaining settler regimes. There is no such thing as a conquered people. Existence is resistence. Free the Americas!