On April 25, 2025, demonstrators gathered at Cambridge Common to protest Harvard University's position on the war in Gaza, expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people. In the wake of escalating conflict, students nationwide have initiated hunger strikes and organized occupations to compel their institutions to sever ties with companies linked to Israel. Despite organized suppression, activism is gaining traction with notable divestment efforts recognized. Stanford's earlier encampment exemplifies this shift, highlighting student commitment to demanding accountability and support for Palestinian issues, pushing for civil disobedience in light of perceived injustices.
If ever there was a moment that demands civil disobedience, it is the hour of genocide. We walk in the footsteps of earlier Stanford students who occupied this same plaza to end the Vietnam War and later to force partial divestment from apartheid South Africa. Now that baton passes to us. On October 20, 2023, Stanford students built the nation's first Gaza‑solidarity encampment.
For 120 days, hundreds of Stanford community members sustained this encampment to demand an end to the genocide in Palestine and to press Stanford University to act - by providing direct support for Palestinian students and, ultimately, by divesting its endowment from defense contractors and surveillance firms complicit in that genocide.
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