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Op-Ed | An Open Letter to Chancellor Joan Gabel

By Contributors • April 25, 2024

We, a group of University of Pittsburgh educators, are standing in solidarity with the students who established the "liberation zone" in support of Palestine on Schenley Plaza.

Students hold sit-in protest in support of Palestinians, call on Pitt to divest

By Jordan Kooper, Staff Writer • April 23, 2024

A coalition of student groups are staging a sit-in protest in front of the Cathedral of Learning today through Friday to support the liberation of Palestine and call for Pitt to divest from Israeli institutions. The protesters encamped on a grassy area near Bigelow Boulevard, before moving to Schenley Plaza, where they have spread banners and pro-Palestinian literature.

Pro-Palestine organizations hold die-in outside Cathedral, Bigelow Boulevard

By Colm Slevin, Senior Staff Writer • April 2, 2024

Around 60 people joined Pittsburgh Palestine Coalition’s die-in protest on Friday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Opinion | We must recognize manufactured famines

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • March 26, 2024

As of two weeks ago, 20 people, most of them children, have already starved to death in Gaza. The IPC’s Famine Review Committee has urged attention to the “imminent” crisis Israel is inflicting.

Opinion | The safety of children is the world’s responsibility

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • February 23, 2024

In the name of “self-defense,” the Israeli Defense Force has killed approximately 10,000 children in less than five months. One Palestinian child dies every 15 minutes in Gaza. By now, we know...

‘We have to do it for them’: Protest in support of Palestine draws crowd in Schenley Plaza

By Patrick Diana, Staff Writer • February 14, 2024

About 200 students and community members gathered in Schenley Plaza for an emergency “Hands Off Rafah” rally in the wake of Israel’s recent barrage on Rafah.

Opinion | Journalism is not a crime

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • February 2, 2024

Killing journalists is a war crime. There is not a single government or military in the world that is unaware of this fact. Press and media employees are meant to have immunity during military attacks, even in the extremely rare case that they are producing propaganda.

Opinion | Pay attention to the language of war

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • December 4, 2023

Language and its employment are not free from responsibility. Context must be applied, relentlessly. We need to question definitions and designations, what they reveal about who is setting them, and what it means to grant authority to those in that position.

Opinion | Academic institutions must address their complicity and complacency in the face of racism, Islamophobia and exclusion on campuses

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • December 1, 2023

To all those unwilling to publicly oppose apartheid, understand that your silence puts so many of your students at risk, and it plays into the imperialist prejudice you are paid to discuss.

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.