ANNOUNCEMENTS: Palestinian Music, Direct Actions, and Book club this week
IU Event: The Sounds Of Palestine
Join PSC again as we host Dr. David McDonald for an evening of Palestinian music and discussion. Our last event was such a success, we decided to host a second version!
Wednesday, Feb. 7 6:30 PM in Ballantine Room 008.
IU Event: National Day Of Action
This Thursday, college campuses across the country are participating in a mass walk out and march for Palestine! Join us at Sample Gates at 2:30 for speeches and a march around campus.
Weekly Starbucks sit-ins at the IMU!
Each Monday, PSC will be hosting a sit-in at the IMU Starbucks from 7:30am! Come help us protest IU's involvement in the genocide of Palestinians. All you need to do is show up and take up space. Feel free to study, chat, and get to know all of us at the PSC!
Indianapolis Event: Poetry for Palestine
The Middle Eastern Student Association at IU Indianapolis will be hosting Palestinian-American author Fady Joudah. This event, a partnership with JVP Indiana, PSC, and Indiana Resiste will look at advocacy and activism through the lens of poetry. There will be a table fair and a reading of one of the works by Joudah.
This event is in Indianapolis on Thursday, February 15th from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM.
Speaker Announcement:
PSC is also happy to announce that we will host Sarah Leah Whitson at IU in February. Whitson is currently the executive director of Democracy For the Arab World Now (DAWN) and served as head of Human Rights Watch Middle East North Africa division from 2004 to 2020.
We will host her to discuss Human Rights and US support for Israel.
For the most updated information about this event, view this post live (click the title) or follow our Instagram page!
Book Club
The PSC Book Club is excited to announce that we are having our next meeting on Sunday, February 11 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM (Balantine Hall 143). We are reading Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean. This book offers an excellent overview of Palestinian national liberation through a socialist lens. Socialism is a useful framework for understanding Palestinian history as it uncovers the economic and class oppression woven into the zionist imperialist project. This upcoming meeting, we are specifically reading:
“What is Zionism?” and “The roots of modern-day Zionism” from Chapter 1: Roots of the Nakba: Zionist Settler Colonialism (if you have time, feel free to read the entire chapter!)
Chapter 2: How Israel Became the Watchdog State: US Imperialism and the Middle East by Shireen Akram-Boshar
Chapter 3: The National Liberation Struggle: A Socialist Analysis by Mostafa Omar.
You can download the book for free through Haymarket Publishers via this link. We hope to see you at our book club meeting!
Make your voices heard
Samia Halaby exhibition
It has been over three weeks since news about the esteemed alumna of Indiana University and Palestinian-American abstract painter, Samia Halaby, had her much-anticipated US premier retrospective canceled by Indiana University and the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art.
We continue to ask President Pamela Whitten to uphold the mission and values of Indiana University by restoring Samia Halaby's art exhibit in light of this cancellation.
We encourage everyone to support our cause by signing the petition and sharing it widely.
Unsuspend Professor Sinno
We also continue to seek your support in amplifying the student/alumni and faculty petition for Professor Abdulkader Sinno. Indiana University has suspended the tenured professor for assisting our organization in advocating for Palestine.
The university demonstrated a strong determination to penalize Professor Sinno, sidestepping established procedures that would have guaranteed him a hearing in front of peers before imposing such a severe sanction.
Free Sinno!