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SU has named James Haywood Rolling Jr. as the new interim chair for its African American Studies department.
Onondaga Historical Association’s new exhibit features 120 years of Syracuse sports unforms from various local teams.
In her first season in the National Women’s Soccer League, former Syracuse goalie Lysianne Proulx has shined with Bay FC.
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Students Inside the last 3 days of Shaw Quad’s encampment walk in ‘solidarity’ with Israel on campus
By Samantha Olander and Richard Perrins the daily orange
Following similar demonstrations at universities across the country, SU and SUNY ESF community members have established an encampment in support of Palestine. joe zhao asst. photo editor
Several dozen members of the Syracuse community began setting up tents in SU’s Shaw Quadrangle Monday morning Students for Justice in Palestine and the SU Palestine Solidarity Collective at 2:07 p.m. Wednesday. “We, members of the Syracuse University community, are mobiContent warning: This article contains mention of antisemitic language. lizing today in solidarity with tens of thousands of Palestinians hmad Zatar, a local Palestinian-American, heard massacred by Israel’s ongoing ethnonationalist genocidal war in about the start of Syracuse University’s Gaza Soli- Gaza, Palestine,” the post reads. “We urge Syracuse University to darity Encampment through text threads two days take immediate and concrete actions that reflect our ethical comago. After learning about Wednesday’s pro-Israel mitments and responsibilities.” demonstrations, Zatar arrived on campus with a The “official demands” include a call for SU to “publicly support keffiyeh tied around his head and a Palestinian flag around his a permanent ceasefire in Palestine,” full disclosure about the unineck. He extended a pole to hang another flag high above the versity’s funds to Israel and its subsidiaries as well as the amnesty Shaw Quadrangle. of protesters. The fifth demand also ensures the protection of “I feel very powerful holding it,” said academic freedom. Zatar, who lived in Palestine for six years. “Ultimately we’re here until the university “There’s all types of people here. Differhears the will of its students, which is overent nationalities, different backgrounds, whelmingly in support of disclosure and divestWe’re going to different identities. They’re all here in ment,” said SJ, a member of the protest who has be here until our solidarity, standing for one thing and stayed all three nights and chose to only share one thing only. All we want is peace with their initials. demands are met, what’s going on over there, that’s all we Throughout Monday and Tuesday mornuntil the suffering ask for.” ing, multiple organizations on campus released At roughly 10:40 a.m. Monday, several statements of solidarity for the encampment, in Gaza stops. dozen members of the Syracuse communiincluding Syracuse’s chapter of Jewish Voice for Adeline Spallina-Jones ty, including SU and SUNY ESF students, Peace, Faculty for Justice Palestine SU and the encampment organizer faculty and locals, began setting up tents executive committee of SU’s American Associain the Shaw Quad. At approximately 10:40 tion of University Professors chapter. p.m. Wednesday, roughly 70 tents are set up in the Shaw Quad with “We are particularly impressed the protestors at SU have placed 60 protestors. protecting academic freedom at the core of their demands, as the The group confirmed to The Daily Orange that it is in talks AAUP believes this vital principle, so central to University life, is with university administrators and currently has legal counsel in under attack both at SU and across the nation,” the executive complace. They also have no intention of leaving until their demands mittee wrote. are met. SU’s Student Association also unanimously passed its “We’re going to be here until our demands are met, until the suf- “Resolution in Solidarity with Syracuse University Encampfering in Gaza stops,” one organizer, Adeline Spallina-Jones, said. ment and Condemnation of Antisemitism” at its Monday Following the beginning of the encampment, SU’s GSE released meeting. The resolution called for students to have permission an email statement to The D.O., writing that it was started “in to openly “express discontent” and condemned “hate of any protest of Syracuse’s complicity in the genocide and slaughter of kind,” which includes “antisemitism, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim millions in Palestine.” The group initially listed seven demands in speech” on campus. see encampment page 5 its email statement but cut it down to six in an Instagram post by
About 100 pro-Israel demonstrators gathered outside Ernie Davis Hall Wednesday around noon for a walk to show “solidarity with Israel” in response to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the lawn of the Shaw Quadrangle. The group first walked along Waverly Avenue before moving up past the Hall of Languages toward the quad, where it was met by people at the encampment silently holding signs behind fences that the Department of Public Safety set up earlier that day. From the beginning, organizers encouraged the group to remain peaceful and avoid interacting with protesters in the encampment. “We’re here to be peaceful,” said Mia Gottesman, a freshman at SU and organizer of the demonstration, before the group began its walk to the quad. “We’re here to show our support, to stand with Israel. Nothing, literally nothing else besides that.” On Monday, around a dozen Syracuse University and SUNY ESF community members established a Gaza Solidarity Encampment, calling for university divestment from Israel amid the ongoing IsraelHamas war. The size of the encampment has grown over three days to approximately 70 tents set up as of Wednesday night.
By Anish Vasudevan editor in chief
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I’m very proud to be Jewish today, every day, but even more so today. Mia Gottesman su freshman
As the pro-Israel group walked through campus, they carried Israeli flags and signs with pictures of kidnapped Israelis and slogans like “Protect Jewish Students,” “Never Again Means Now,” “Our Love is Stronger Than Your Hate” and “Bring Them Home.” As they reached the opposite side of the quad to the encampment, the demonstrators joined hands in a large circle and began singing, dancing and chanting “Bring them home” and “Am Yisrael Chai.” The group dispersed at about 12:45 p.m., but Mendy Rapoport, a rabbi with Chabad Jewish Student Center, stayed behind with members of the group to perform the Shema prayer. “I’m very proud to be Jewish today, every day, but even more so today,” Gottesman said. “To see how every single person here just connected, touched and to get in a group to sing and dance showed (we aren’t) scared to just show face and be together.” Participants in the pro-Israel demonstration said they wanted to show solidarity with Jewish people experiencing antisemitism as a result of the ongoing war in Gaza. Gottesman said she wanted Jewish community members to come together to connect and celebrate their identity. see walk page 5