FJP hosts vigil two years after zionist forces murder 680,000+ in Gaza

On Oct. 6, 37 faculty and community members gathered for a vigil at Honnold Mudd Library, sharing poems, excerpts of books and essays on Palestinian liberation. Claremont Faculty for Justice in Palestine members led the vigil, commemorating over two years of the Zionist entity’s intensified genocide  which has killed over 680,000 people in Gaza. 

Eve Oishi, a professor for the Claremont Graduate University’s Cultural Studies Department shared an excerpt from the book “Perfect Victims” by Mohammed El-Kurd. 

“We die a lot. We die in fleeting headlines. In between breaths. Our death is so quotidian that journalists reported as though they’re reporting the weather. Cloudy skies, light showers, 3000 Palestinians dead in the past 10 days” Oishi read.

Asian American studies professor Bilal Nasir also spoke during the vigil, touching on the solidarity between Black and Palestinian liberation movements. Nasir was recently censored by the Claremont Colleges library for his talk titled “West Coast Strategy: Policing Palestine in the World City,” when he was told to remove the words “Palestine,” “IDF,” “Mossad,” “Zionism” and “anti-Muslim racism” from his abstract.

“What distinguished Malcolm X and the Black freedom struggle is that he was not only concerned with domestic politics, but he was what we called an internationalist,” said Nasir. “He very intentionally tried to connect the struggle for Black freedom in America to the decolonization of the broader third world.”