Demand that Temple University Drop Unjust Disciplinary Charges Against Pro-Palestinian Students
Since the start of the genocide over 10 months ago, Temple University has refused to condemn the apartheid ethnostate of Israel, and the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza. Despite divestment campaigns and mass organization led by those whose families have been directly affected by the genocide, Temple University has remained adamant in maintaining their financial and educational relationship with the Zionist entity. Following the 17 day encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, and the mass brutalization of students on May 17th by the university’s police force, Dean of Students Rachel Stark and President Englert of Temple University decided to charge 3 students with disciplinary sanctions for political actions that occurred outside of the university premises. Temple refused to drop the cases despite significant pressure from the ACLU and a letter signed by over 250 faculty members within the university. These sanctions have the potential to permanently stifle the academic careers and future income and opportunities of the students being charged, all for calling for an end to a genocide funded by the very institution that they attend. Temple University has made it abundantly clear that their priority is not to provide “an accessible education that sparks positive change”, but rather to bloody their hands with their direct involvement in genocide at the detriment of Palestinians and their own students for the sake of capital and corporate potency. The Temple University Administration has the absolute ability to completely drop all the disciplinary cases on the 3 students involved. Call or write a letter and contact President Richard M. Englert and Dean of Students Rachael Stark, and strictly demand that all charges brought upon the 3 Temple students be dropped immediately.