It has been more than twelve days since the beginning of the universities uprising. Its first spark was at Columbia University on April 18, 2024, which has a long history of speaking out against its state’s policies in the 1968 Vietnam War and the apartheid policy in South Africa in the 1980s. The student’s solidarity sit-ins spread to include several other universities such as Texas, Ohio, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Michigan, Boston and other prominent universities in the United States.

Professors and faculty members joined the students as well, they supported and participated in their movements, some of them were subjected to harsh arrest by police forces. According to Professor David Palumbo Liu, professor of comparative literature at Stanford University, “more young Americans see defending Palestine as “a test” of the true moral of the world.
The university student’s movement extended outside the United States to universities in Australia, France, Canada, and others, as hundreds of students at the Australian University of Sydney organized a demonstration and set up sit-in tents in the campus demanding an end to the genocidal war committed by the usurping entity in Gaza.


Students at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, had previously organized marches and protests demanding to stop investing in companies that supply the usurping entity with weapons and other war materials. Students from Sciences Po University in France closed the entrances to the prestigious institution in the capital, Paris, while chanting slogans in support of the Palestinians. They also raised Palestinian flags on the windows and above the entrance of the building, while a number of them wore the Palestinian keffiyeh as an expression of their complete solidarity with the Palestinian people.

This new intifada formed a historical narrative counter to the narrative of the usurping entity, which specializes in manipulating the term “anti-Semitism”. It supports the narrative of the Palestinian people and support their steadfastness, survival and struggle for liberation.