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Decolonize Palestine - Myths database - database of common Zionist and Hasbarist myths, along with detailed refutations for each of them.

Oct 7 Fact Check - fact checking website that fact-checks statements made about the events of October 7 and subsequent/related events.

Palestine: A Comprehensive Document for Palestinian Liberation - has a very large section dedicated to busting anti-Palestine myths.

The Electronic Intifada

Democracy Now!

People's Dispatch

al-Jazeera

Middle East Eye

Jewish Currents

Mondoweiss

Unicorn Riot

It's Going Down

Jacobin

Palestinian Center for Human Rights

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

B'Tselem

Students for Justice in Palestine

Jewish Voice for Peace

If Not Now

Democratic Socialists of America

Palestine Legal

Furthermore, a coalition of 253 organizations have released a statement standing in solidarity with the Gaza student protests and calling for a ceasefire.

Palestinian Children's Relief Fund

Palestine Red Crescent Society

United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Palestine (UNRWA)

Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders

International Rescue Committee

A map of student protests. Green indicates campuses that have or had encampments, while blue indicates other campuses with protests. Zoomable version can be found here.

A map of campus encampments in the United States. Source

Wikipedia page on 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses - a decent overview of the events from a "neutral" point of view.

What Are These Student Protestors ACTUALLY Doing? - Twitch streamer Hasanabi interviews two Columbia student protestors.

“A Glorious Fight,” Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment: A Timeline by Anna Rajagopal and Kaitlyn Cook - a timeline of events regarding Columbia's student protests for Palestine.

LA Intifada: Dispatches from USC's Student Rebellion by Samia Saliba - a short article on the Palestine protests at USC, written by a PhD student attending USC.

A Week in Photos from the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment by Samaa Khullar - a bunch of photos of Columbia's Palestine protests.

In Defense of America's Student Intifada by Fatima Bhutto, a spirited defense of the student intifada, drawing ties between today's Gaza solidarity protests and the anti-apartheid, civil rights, and Vietnam War student protests of the past.

The Student Movement Is Writing a New Chapter of History by Dylan Saba, a short analysis of the student intifada by an attorney at Palestine Legal.

I would recommend following the social media accounts of local SJP, YDSA, JVP and/or IfNotNow chapters at your local college campus - even if your local campus is small, odds are that a pro-Palestine student organization at that campus exists and is doing good work! Most pro-Palestine student organizations have Instagram accounts, so check on Instagram to see if your local campus' organization(s) has an account. It is especially important to follow these accounts due to the frequently inaccurate and plainly false media coverage of these protests, which often blindly report propaganda and Hasbara as facts - these organizations' accounts provide on-the-ground information about these protests that can help counter propagandistic media coverage. Plus, as most campuses are open to everyone, feel free to attend any events or protests being hosted by any of these organizations! (However, make sure to keep yourself safe at protests.)

An assorted list of social media accounts:

Columbia - @sjp.columbia, @columbiaydsa, @jvp.columbia, @cuapartheiddivest

UCLA - @sjpatucla, fjpatucla, @uclaydsa, @ucladivest, @jvpatucla

UC Berkeley - @bearsforpalestine, @calydsa, @jvpberkeley, @ucbdivest, @berkeleylawforpalestine

USC - @uscscale

Harvard - psc.harvard (Facebook), @harvardcollegeydsa, @harvardgs4p

There is a wide variety of dis- and misinformation regarding the campus protests and student intifada. I haven't seen a ton of major resources dedicated to refuting these myths, so let us do so here.

MYTH: Most pro-Palestine campus protests are violent.
FACT: An independent non-profit, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled), has analyzed 553 Palestine campus protests and have found that 97% of campus protests are non-violent. Furthermore, of the 3% that were violent, half were due to police attempting to clear out Gaza campus encampments.

MYTH: Most or many pro-Palestine campus protestors are anti-semitic.
FACT: This is mostly based on the myth that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism, which is addressed here. While there have been a relatively small amount of isolated, scattered anti-semitic incidents, this is not representative of the pro-Palestine student movement, which has been very quick to denounce anti-semitism. One should also note that Jewish anti-Zionist students and faculty, as well as organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now, have played a major role in organizing the protests and encampments. (Source)

MYTH: Chants like "intifada", "from the river to the sea", and "we don't want no two-state" are anti-semitic and/or hateful.
FACT: None of these statements are anti-semitic or hateful. "Intifada" is merely the Arabic word for "resistance", and while generally used in the context of Palestinian resistance, it has been applied outside of that - notably Western Sahara (First and Second Sahrawi Intifadas), Bahrain (the March Intifada), and has even been applied to the Arab Spring (for instance, the Tunisian Revolution being referred to as the "Tunisian Intifada") and the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (as the "Warsaw Ghetto intifada"). When Palestinians and protestors chant "from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free", they are calling for a state covering the entire Palestine region that is tolerant of all ethnicities and religions and doesn't exist at the expense of the subjugation of others - see here for more. Similar logic applies to the slogan "we don't want no two-state, we want all of '48".

MYTH: Pro-Palestine students at UC Berkeley attacked Jewish students during a speaker event.
FACT: This statement is lying, both blatantly and by omission. The fact is that pro-Palestine students were protesting an event organized by Zionist student organizations featuring racist former IOF soldier Ran Bar-Yoshafat, who has claimed that "every school, mosque, hospital, kindergarten [in Gaza] - all - without exception - is a terror camp. There is no exception. There is not even one exception." The protest was explicitly meant to be non-violent, and while there was an isolated breaking of a window (which is just property damage after all), the vast majority of protestors did not engage in violence. On the other hand, police acted extremely violently towards student protestors, who reportedly had their heads smashed against doors, their necks grabbed and their bodies slammed. Despite these facts, most news organizations reported the "pro-Palestine protestors attack Jewish students" myth as fact, showing a blatant lack of journalistic integrity. (Source)

MYTH: Pro-Palestine students at Northeastern University students chanted "kill the Jews."
FACT: This is an outright lie. A Zionist counter-protestor, waving an Israeli flag, chanted "kill the Jews" as a "provocative joke." He was quickly booed and shouted down by pro-Palestine protestors, who retorted with their own slogans and requested that he leave. The counter protestor was subsequently escorted off of campus. However, various mainstream media sources blindly reported that it was pro-Palestine protestors who chanted "kill the Jews", and Northeastern University used this lie as a pretext to call in police to break up the encampment and arrest around a hundred student protestors. (Source 1, Source 2)

MYTH: We should ban both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protests on college campuses, in order to keep campus environments calm and safe.
FACT: As iterated before, campus protests have not, by and large, been violent or anti-semitic/hateful. However, this sentiment is a surprisingly popular one among the American populace, with around 47% calling for banning pro-Palestine protests and 41% calling for banning pro-Israel protests. (Source). This is a violation of free speech, which many of those bashing pro-Palestine protests claim to profess as a core value.

MYTH: Many protestors, such as the ones at Columbia, are storming and occupying buildings, which is violent. This shows that these protests aren't legitimate peaceable assembly.
FACT: Yes, many protestors have occupied buildings as part of their protest. However, occupying buildings is a tradition of many college student movements, and little to no violence is generally committed by protestors as part of these occupations. Many of those who object to the pro-Palestine protests often claim that occupying buildings, blocking roads etc are all "violent" or "too confrontational." It seems that their idea of an effective protest is politely requesting that those in power stop funding and supporting a genocide.

MYTH: Most of the campus protestors are 'outside agitators,' not students of the respective universities. Alternatively, student protestors are being paid to protest.
FACT: The myth of the 'outside agitator' or the conspiracy theory of 'paid protestors' funded by dark money is a common refrain in many anti-Palestine, conservative circles, especially as the former has been what many police departments have espoused to try and de-legitimize the protests. The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, also repeated this myth of 'outside agitators' infiltrating protests, using it to justify the decision to send in police to suppress the protests. Many mainstream media sources have blindly followed and reported this myth, without sufficient skepticism, though others have done more to question these myths. Neither of these myths are new, however, and both serve to try and imply that the people participating in these protests are not community members with genuine concerns and issues, but rather were paid or otherwise had ulterior motives for protesting - and this myth has been used to de-legitimize protests as diverse as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War protests. There is no evidence of 'outside agitators' or 'paid protestors' playing a role in the student intifada, which is made up of student-led grassroots efforts based on a moral obligation to address the complicity of universities in the genocide of Palestinians. The CBC conducted more thorough fact-checking of these claims and found no evidence to support them.

MYTH: The tents used in the encampments are all the same. This suggests that an outside conspiracy is afoot, as in, someone is buying the protestors all these tents in bulk. (Tent theory)
FACT: The reason why the models of many of the tents are the same is not because of secret organizing by some conspiracy, but because these tent models were the cheapest the protestors could find, bought from stores like Walmart and Costco. The student protestors aren't part of some grand conspiracy - they're just broke. This is one of the more ludicrous conspiracy theories that have been spread about the student protestors, but that didn't stop NYC mayor Eric Adams from spouting this nonsense at a press conference. The CBC refutes "tent theory" in detail here, as does Wired over here.

USA Today has also tackled some of the more blatant dis- and misinformation about the student protests here.

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