We are outraged that our university continues to fund this carnage, while calling itself a university “for the public good.” While CUNY has refused to disclose its investments (in 2024 students sued CUNY to force them to disclose: the case is ongoing), we know the following: as of Fiscal Year 2021, CUNY had 13 contracts exceeding $8.5 million USD with companies that aid in, or profit from, zionist colonization, occupation, and war crimes, including Dell, IBM, HP, Lenovo, Cisco, and BMC Software. Displaced by bombing from my home in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, to the al-Mawasi neighborhood of Khan Younis, I have lost so many loved ones to Israel’s attacks over the past year: I am mourning 60 family members, including my friend and cousin Hassan, He has been missing since we evacuated our home in Rafah in May. I will survive this genocide, and I will keep moving forward—not only to rediscover who I am, but to define the value of my life in the face of all that has been lost.
Author: CUNY students staff and faculty on hunger strike for Gaza
Published at: 2025-05-31 20:01:20
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