The CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment stands in firm solidarity with Within Our Lifetime, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and the Palestine movement at large in our anti-zionist and anti-normalization stance. We know that it is the Palestinian resistance, not zionist American politicians, who will liberate Palestine.

We reject any attempts to paint principled anti-zionism as fringe, when the thawabet are mainstream within the Palestine movement.

As PYM stated, "The so-called 'progressives' of the Democratic party, from AOC to Bowman to Sanders, are complicit in this genocide: from endorsing Biden, to voting to send money to the Zionist entity, to smearing Palestinian [orgs] and conflating anti-Zionism w/ anti-semitism."

This is why the CUNY GSE refused to platform politicians at our encampment. The movement is not beholden to Democratic politicians who hedge on genocide, and we will not be scolded for our dissent.