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It’s been eight months since the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at Columbia University launched an international student movement targeting institutional complicity in Israel’s attacks on Palestine. After multiple police raids, hundreds of arrests, and campus suppression, a new collective has formed from the school’s intersecting pro-Palestine movements.
Hinds House Collective (HHC) made its off-campus debut last weekend, November 9 and 10, with a simultaneous exhibition and teach-in event harkening back to the April takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, which was renamed “Hind’s Hall” by students and activists in tribute to five-year-old Hind Rajab. The Palestinian child was trapped in a car in Gaza with the bullet-riddled bodies of her dead uncle, aunt, and three cousins — all of whom were killed by an Israeli army tank. Rajab was eventually killed, as were two paramedics who responded to her frantic calls for help.
In a press statement, the anonymous collective cited Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “vapid apology” to those “harmed” by the police during the encampment dissolution as the catalyst of its inception. “When a genocide is in place, we are not going to be silenced by fascist measures imposed by the Columbia administration,” the group said.
Source:
https://hyperallergic.com/965341/exhibition-looks-back-at-columbia-university-gaza-solidarity-encampments/