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The campus group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is holding an anti-Veterans Day protest today, saying they want to reclaim the day to celebrate their “martyrs.” Here’s the announcement they posted on Instagram yesterday.
We are reclaiming Veterans Day for our martyrs as we refuse to honor the US War Machine. Come read a martyr’s story and plant a poppy in their memory. When the Zionist entity is working to destroy a people, to remember is to resist.
We must center the people who we are fighting for, and remember what we are pushing for: divestment at Columbia, and the total liberation of Palestinians. Columbia is complicit in the deaths of these martyrs through the endeavors it has invested its endowment in. Come learn, grieve, and be pushed to action.
In the face of a genocide, it is easy to move with urgency, but we must make sure to be intentional in our organizing. Join us as we center the very real and full lives of Palestinians (and others) being sieged and killed by the Zionist entity.
Eternal glory to all the martyrs.
By martyrs they mean everyone who has died in Gaza including the thousands of members of Hamas killed by Israel in the past year. They are literally celebrating Hamas on Veterans Day. This should be a shock. As I pointed out here, this group previously announced their support for Hamas and “armed resistance.
