Inteefada Shirts, a clothing brand that sells T-shirts with pro-Palestine phrases and images, designed and printed by a former SBU student, has raised over $20,000 in aid for Gaza relief. The founder said she created the brand out of “pure love.”
At SBU, students and faculty accused the administration of blocking pro-Palestine speech through police force and organizational restrictions. School officials denied this.
On Oct. 10, Israeli Major General Ghassan Alian called the people of Gaza “human animals [that] must be treated as such.” The following pieces seek to supplant Alian’s dehumanizing rhetoric.
Pro-Palestine student groups across the U.S. have not been supported by university administrations. Instead, these groups have been faced with Islamophobia, censorship and blatant, violent hate crimes on their own campuses.
On Tuesday, March 26, a pro-Palestine demonstration led by organizers of the Stony Brook University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine ended with the arrest of nine protesters in Stony Brook University’s Administration Building.
On Nov. 2, Stony Brook University (SBU) student and Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senator Sarah El Baroudy posted an Instagram story of her vandalized car. In red paint, her door read, “terrorist” and “go to hell.” At SBU, pro-Palestine students like El Baroudy say they are facing an onslaught of discrimination and disregard — and that the administration has done nothing about it.