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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
A woman wearing a keffiyeh speaks to protesters during Monday afternoon’s “Hands Off Yemen” protest in Schenley Plaza.

‘Hear us’: Protestors call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, support for Yemen

By Briana Bindus, Staff Writer • January 16, 2024

About 100 people gathered in Schenley Plaza Monday evening to protest the recent United States airstrikes on Yemen.  “On this day, what would be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 95th birthday, you...

Vigil attendees hold signs while listening to speakers during the “Bring Them Home” vigil on Monday afternoon on the WPU Plaza.

‘Bring them home’: Vigil marks 100 days since conflict in Gaza, calls for release of Israeli hostages

By Patrick Diana, Staff Writer • January 16, 2024
Around 40 students and community members gathered outside of the William Pitt Union in solidarity with the hostages taken during Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
Protesters gather to support Palestine inside the Cathedral of Learning Common Room on Monday afternoon.

Protestors gather in front of the Cathedral, call for a permanent ceasefire

By Abby Lipold, Staff Writer • December 5, 2023
Protestors from community organizations Socialist Alternative Pittsburgh, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Pittsburgh Palestine Coalition gathered outside the Cathedral of Learning along with students on Monday afternoon to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Op-Ed | Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism

By Samuel Weiner, Channah Weiner, and Alexandra Weiner • November 17, 2023
We outright reject the conflation of Jewishness and Israel and the corollary equation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Our freedom and safety as Jews are more tied up in ending oppressive and inhumane systems than it is an ethnostate predicated on the dispossession of the Palestinian people.
Posters of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas after its attack on Israel last month on the outside wall of Amos Hall in the Schenley Quadrangle.

University addresses removal of Israeli hostage posters

By Ryleigh Lord, News Editor • November 14, 2023
In areas around campus such as the Quad, University personnel have taken down “missing person” posters of Israeli hostages as they violate the University’s signage policies, according to a spokesperson.
Deena Eldaour, an organizer of the rally, speaks at the protest calling for an immediate end to the siege on Gaza on CMU’s campus on Thursday afternoon.

Student walkout, rally shows support for Palestine

By Spencer Levering, Senior Staff Writer • November 10, 2023
About 200 people participated in a walkout called “Shut it Down for Palestine” to show support for Palestinians on Thursday afternoon. Students and community members met at the “Walking to the Sky” sculpture on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus to hear speakers voice their thoughts on the ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestinians.
Fire and smoke rise following Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023.

Opinion | Carpet bombing is not ‘self-defense’

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • October 31, 2023
There is no justification for the Israeli state’s indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip, and the international audience must admit this before even more Palestinians die.
Five Years Later: A Squirrel Hill Jew looks back at Tree of Life shooting, and forward to collective liberation

Five Years Later: A Squirrel Hill Jew looks back at Tree of Life shooting, and forward to collective liberation

By Bella Markovitz, Senior Staff Writer • October 27, 2023
In the fall of 2018, after graduating high school that spring, I began my first semester at Pitt. I can’t remember if I started considering dropping out before or after the Tree of Life attack happened. 
A Palestinian demonstrator, unseen, holds his national flag next to Israeli soldiers, during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Friday Jan. 18, 2008.

Opinion | Rewriting history serves no one

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • October 23, 2023
How can you expect the Palestinians to accept their own destruction without resistance? This moral stain will never wash out.
Editorial | Don’t let yourself fall prey to misinformation in the midst of global conflicts

Editorial | Don’t let yourself fall prey to misinformation in the midst of global conflicts

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 20, 2023
The Israel-Hamas war — as with any international geopolitical conflict — is surrounded by a shroud of misinformation made worse by a media blackout in Gaza.
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