To discuss where to find hope, where the movement for liberation has made strides and where we go from here, In These Times brought together figures from the student movement globally: Lana Hakim, from National Students for Justice in Palestine (who is using a pseudonym because National SJP has been a target of doxxing and other attacks); Momodou Taal, a Cornell Ph.D. candidate and host of The Malcolm Effect podcast, who is suing the Trump administration over executive orders targeting pro-Palestinian students; Jenny Maguire, a student at Trinity College Dublin, the first university in the West to completely divest from Israel; and Maryam Alwan, a Columbia University graduate whose involvement in protests made her and her fellow students targets of repression. The strength of the student movement and the astuteness and skill of student organizers — who have part-time jobs, who go to school as well, who organize 40 hours a week on top of that, to push these demands — I think remains like an enigma and a conundrum to people to the Zionist project and the people who uplift that project that also hope to quell a rising majority. The lawsuit that I’m in, and that Mahmoud is a codefendant in — they’re claiming we are somehow part of Hamas, and I think it’s just laughable, because it just shows the sheer desperation they have to resort to in order to delegitimize the Palestinian cause and the struggle for liberation against genocide that everyone can see with their own eyes.
Author: Nashwa Bawab
Published at: 2025-07-14 21:00:00
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