rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/cuny-bot-reverse-hadeeqas-suspension?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-cuny-bot-reverse-hadeeqas-suspension' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> CUNY4Palestine https://actionnetwork.org/groups/cuny4palestine https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/419/014/normal/CUNY_violates_first_amendment_and_article_six_(2).jpg City College President Vincent Boudreau denied Hadeeqa's appeal to drop the disciplinary charges, and now, Hadeeqa is appealing her suspension to the CUNY Board of Trustees. We demand that the CUNY Board of Trustees drop the charges against Hadeeqa and the student movement for Palestine! CUNY is amongst the first public universities under the Trump administration to discipline students with academic sanctions over free speech. Every single university in Gaza has been bombed, our universities invest in genocide, and they are suspending us instead. We call for divestment from destruction while they jump through legal hoops, and move in secret from the public eye to continue carrying out their onslaught of Gaza through investments and further repression. CUNY is one of the first of many public universities to come that are using our students as test subjects for how far their fascism can extend in this political climate. Hadeeqa is being made an example of for the sake of setting the tone across the nation at the public university. They seek further control over the student movement for Palestine. This sets a dangerous precedent if CUNY goes unchallenged, because the state of the public schools nationally will continue to follow suit in a new stage of state repression on our campuses. This is not about Hadeeqa, nor is it just about students, this is about the full force of imperialism and zionism unleashing itself from the belly of the beast, striking at any sign of resistance that threatens its hold. What we are witnessing is not an isolated disciplinary action; it is part of a broader strategy to criminalize dissent and erase solidarity with Palestine from within the heart of the U.S empire. As the United States funds, arms, and shields the genocide in Gaza, it simultaneously wages a domestic campaign to suppress those who dare speak out against it. By targeting student organizers, by censoring protests, by punishing those who refuse to be silent, the empire secures its comfort and power at the expense of truth, justice, and liberation. We cannot let that happen. We must understand that what’s happening on our campuses is directly tied to what’s happening on the ground in Gaza. The repression is international, and so must be the resistance. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cuny-bot-reverse-hadeeqas-suspension