Spring 2012 Callout

Our spring callout will be held on Wednesday January 18th at 6pm in BRNG B206. We will have a short presentation about what Purdue SJP has done in the past and what we plan for this semester. After there will be a short discussion about Palestine and SJP. There will be free pizza. Please come and bring your friends!

Variety Show to Benefit The Maia Project

“In the West Bank and Gaza, the Israeli Occupation systematically denies Palestinian adequate quality and quantities of water. The health and well being of virtually every Palestinian child and adult is affected by the shortage of clean, safe water.” [The Maia Project]

Purdue SJP will be hosting a variety show on Thursday, March 31st from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM in the Matthews Hall 210. The proceeds from this event will benefit The Maia Project, an organization that brings clean drinking water to the people of Gaza, Palestine. The goal of MECA’s Maia Project is to provide safe clean, drinking water for tens of thousands of Palestinian children by working in partnership with community organizations to build water purification and desalination units in schools and towns throughout the Gaza Strip. Our featured guest for this event is Remi Kanazi, a Palestinian-American activst and poet based in New York. He is the author of Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine as well as the editor of Poets For Palestine. A $5.00 minimum donation is suggested for admission. Visit the Facebook event to RSVP now and to find out the latest news!

Performances:
Remi Kanazi
War on Hunger
Purdue Taal
Lebanese Student Organization
Amnesty International
PESC (Purdue Engineering Student Council)
Caribsa
Local Talent… and more!

Thank you all for your dedication and commitment to helping The Maia Project to get water to people who desperately need it.

Scholar’s and Musician’s Tours to Meet at Purdue

Both Norman Finkelstein and Lowkey to discuss recent Israeli attack on Gaza and its repercussions

For Immediate Release

West Lafayette, Indiana – April 14, 2010 – The noted scholar Norman Finkelstein and the popular musician Lowkey will be visiting Purdue together on their respective national tours. Finkelstein, who has been visiting several campuses across the nation to discuss the topic of his recently published book describing the 2008/2009 massacre in Gaza, “‘This Time We Went Too Far’: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion,” will be sharing the stage with Lowkey, who is visiting Purdue as part of his “Rendezvous of Victory” tour. Both Finkelstein and Lowkey have been invited by Purdue University Students for Justice in Palestine in an ongoing effort to raise student awareness of the suffering of the Palestinian people and the need for the United States to revise its policy of unconditional support for Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. The event will be held at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, April 14 2010 in the Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall. Attendance will be free and open to the public.

Variety Show Raises More Than $2,200 for Haiti Relief Fund

Purdue SJP and 20 other organizations collaborate to raise funds for Haitian earthquake victims

West Lafayette, Indiana – March 11, 2010 – Fourteen different student organizations came together last Wednesday, March 10, to raise $2,226.26 for Purdue’s Haiti Relief Fund with “United For Haiti,” a variety show coordinated by Purdue University Students for Justice in Palestine. The variety show, which was hosted in Purdue’s Stewart Center, included dances by the Purdue Arab Society and Lebanese International Organization, the Purdue Salsa Club, Dance2xs, a fashion show by the African Students Association, and poetry by Purdue’s Samir Khadra and founder/editor of “The Quirk” Kaveh Akbar. In addition to the performances, students raised funds through the sale of T-shirts provided by the Purdue Engineering Student Council and of raffle tickets for prizes donated by local restaurants and businesses, in addition to several wholly voluntary donations.

Purdue SJP Stands By the ‘Irving 11′

Eleven students were arrested at the University of California, Irvine on 8 February for standing up and voicing their objections to Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s attacks on Justice Goldstone’s report to the United Nations on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These students are now being threatened with expulsion and other disciplinary actions grossly disproportionate to the ‘crime’ of demanding justice for the Palestinian people.

United for Haiti Variety Show

Download the flyer and post it!

“Haiti faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced.
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake – and several very strong aftershocks – struck only 10 miles from Port-au-Prince.
I cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is, and idle hands will only make this tragedy worse.”

-Wycleaf Jean

Purdue SJP is organizing a variety show on campus to raise funds for the American Red Cross Haiti relief efforts. The performances will take place on Wednesday, March 10 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM in the Student Center’s Fowler Hall. A $5.00 minimum donation is suggested for admission. Visit the Facebook event to RSVP now and to find out the latest news!

An Open Letter to President Obama, the US Senate, and the House of Representatives Regarding US Military Activities in the Middle East

08 April 2010

President Barack H. Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

As you doubtlessly recall, more than a year ago Israeli military forces launched “Operation Cast Lead,” a 17-day military assault on the residents of the Gaza strip that resulted in nearly 1300 Palestinian deaths and thirteen Israeli deaths. Of those killed in the assault, at least 800 were civilians, of which three were Israeli and nearly 400 were Palestinian women and children. This assault has been aptly described by many observers as a massacre, and has been almost unanimously condemned by the international community and by every respected human rights organization that has investigated the attack. The fact-finding mission mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council has found sufficient evidence of war crimes to recommend that both Israeli and Gazan officials conduct prompt and thorough investigations into what transpired during this assault and the conditions that precipitated it.

UN News Centre: UN mission finds evidence of war crimes by both sides in Gaza conflict

29 September 2009 — Justice Richard Goldstone today presented his 575-page report on the findings of the four-member team responsible for the United Nation’s 3-month fact finding mission into the Gaza conflict to the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva with a call to hold both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Press Release: Poetry Night to Promote Peace, Understanding

“Speak Peace” will host New York poet Remi Kanazi alongside community artists

Contact: Brian Napoletano
Tel: 765.543.8929
Email: bnapoletpurdue.edu

For Immediate Release

West Lafayette, Indiana — 24 September 2009 — Purdue Students for Justice in Palestine will be hosting poet and peace activist Remi Kanazi in room 172 of the Robert E. Heine Pharmacy Building on Thursday, 8 October 2009 from 7 to 9 PM at “Speak Peace,” an exhibition of poetry and visual artwork discussing peace and other social issues by local and nationally recognized artists.

Survey: How did you first learn about Purdue SJP?

In an effort to improve the efficiency of outreach efforts, we’d greatly appreciate it if everyone who visits this site were to take the time to answer the question below. We’re just interested in finding out how people are learning about Purdue Students for Justice in Palestine. Don’t worry, it doesn’t collect any personal information or anything sinister like that. We’d just like to know which of our outreach efforts are working, and which ones we need to re-evaluate. Thanks for your help!