Today — January 15, 2025 — the parties negotiating a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to suspend the ongoing escalation of the genocide in Palestine announced that a deal for a ceasefire has been reached. While the ceasefire has not yet been implemented, as the Zionist entity must internally vote to approve the ceasefire and it must make its way through court appeals, the hope among Palestinians and the world for a temporary reprieve from the genocide remains high.
For 15 months, the illegitimate apartheid Zionist entity has escalated its genocide of the Palestinian people and occupation of Palestine, both in Gaza and in the West Bank. It has been 467 days since this escalation began after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. The horrendous violence can never be recovered from; hundreds of thousands have lost their lives, millions have been displaced, and families around the world have lost their loved ones through brutal slaughter.
We will never forget the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been martyred by the Zionist entity. Their lives may be gone, but their names, their faces, their memories, can never be erased. The Zionist entity, and the U.S. empire which supports and funds it, have led an all-out genocide — and the resilient Palestinian people have resisted it with everything they have. Palestine is not dead. Palestine will never die.
Even after 76 years of illegal apartheid, displacement, and occupation — with fifteen months of an unprecedented and horrendous genocide — our institutions continue to fund the Zionist entity and the occupying forces. CSUF has rejected all attempts to end our university’s support for this genocide; our administration has blood on their hands. It is time for accountability for all those who have been the victim of our universities’ complicity in genocide.
We will continue to stand with our fellow students, organizations, and partners in solidarity with Palestine and in the fight for justice in Palestine and an end to support for the genocide. As we enter a new chapter in the Student Intifada, it is vital for all of us to stand up and fight; we are facing off against an empire, but by the power of the masses, we will win.
Long live the Student Intifada. Long live student power. Long live Palestine.