UCU: Solidarity with Palestine protests on US campuses

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes
1. The attempted suppression of Palestine solidarity protests on US campuses.
2. That university managements have called the police on their own students citing intimidation and trespass.
3. The hundreds of arrests at Columbia, NYU and Yale.
4. The spread of the movement to other institutions including Brown, Princeton, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
Congress believes
a. Students are right to protest their government and institutions’ complicity with Israeli genocide.
b. Freedom to protest and dissent are fundamental rights, especially in education institutions.
Congress resolves
i. To send messages of solidarity from UCU to the student Palestine solidarity movement in the US.
ii. To write to the Principals of universities protesting the arrests and disciplining of student protesters.
iii. To encourage and facilitate branches to invite speakers from the US movement to UCU meetings.
iv. To continue to support UCU involvement in campus protests in the UK against Israel’s genocide and in solidarity with the Palestinians.