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Tallahassee, FL \u2013 On Friday, April 10, Tallahassee SDS, along with Freedom Road Socialist Organization and FSU YDSA brought together over 40 people on FSU\u2019s Landis Green to protest the Israel Fair, an event sponsored by pro-Israel groups across the campus to celebrate Israel as it carries out genocide against Palestinians.<\/p>\n
The event took place two days after Israel conducted 100 airstrikes against Lebanon in ten minutes, killing hundreds.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is shameful that FSU is allowing an event on our campus in the name of a state that is built on colonization and genocide,\u201d said Maria Duarte, a member of Tallahassee SDS who spoke at the protest. \u201cIsrael is a state that has been displacing and murdering Palestinians for over 70 years. A state that believes that bombing children and innocent civilians is \u2018self-defense.\u2019 It is disgusting how our university is whitewashing genocide while Palestinians continue to be murdered and displaced.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fair was created by various Zionist organizations, including Students Supporting Israel, Hasbara Fellowships, Hillel at FSU, Zionist Organization of America and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis.<\/p>\n
The protest began at 1 p.m. and was supposed to go until 2 p.m. but continued until around 3:45 p.m. Students chanted \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and made statements that showed solidarity with Palestine, condemned Israel, and ridiculed those involved with the fair.<\/p>\n
Zionist counterprotesters responded with slurs and attempts to disrupt the rally, which the protesters ignored. As for the Israel Fair, it should have gone until 3:30 p.m., but it was closed down a little after 2:00 p.m. due to pressures from the protest \u2013 which would outnumber the attendees of the Israel Fair.<\/p>\n
The speakers made a point to emphasize FSU\u2019s support of Israel and, by extension, the genocide of Palestinians.<\/p>\n
The speakers mentioned how the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering partners with Boeing. A close partner of Israel for 75 years, the company recently signed an $8.6 billion contract with the Pentagon to make 25 new F-15 Fighters for Israel. More recently, in March, Boeing signed another deal for $289 million to deliver 5000 air-launched smart bombs to Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cMake no mistake, our campus is heavily complicit,\u201d said one protester.<\/p>\n
Before the Israel Fair, FSU power washed pro-Palestinian statements that were written in chalk on Landis Green. An anonymous affiliate of the fair\u2019s organizers posted on YikYak, \u201cthis is what FSU thinks of your anti-fair chalk,\u201d with a picture of the Landis Green walkways being power washed.<\/p>\n
The \u201canti-fair chalk\u201d included statements such as \u201c72,000+ dead\u201d (the number of Palestinians who have been killed thus far in the Gaza genocide), \u201cOne should not be killed for just being a Palestinian\u201d and a list of names of children who were killed in Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli occupation forces.<\/p>\n
As FSU\u2019s administration defends allowing of Zionist organizations on their campus, Israel continues to perpetuate its genocide of Palestinians. Tallahassee SDS deplores FSU\u2019s hypocrisy in sanctioning hate groups on their campus while suppressing leftist student movements, and they remain in solidarity with Palestinians.<\/p>\n
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