USPCN message of solidarity to the PennBDS Conference

The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) salutes University of Pennsylvania’s dedicated student activists for organizing a spectacular conference on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement despite cowardly attacks from Zionist organizations, community members, and faculty. Rather than succumbing to internal and external Zionist pressure, PennBDS hosted an array of speakers and workshops in support of the Palestinian right of return, an end to the ongoing occupation and colonization of Palestinian land, and the dissolution of Israel’s apartheid framework. Similarly to the way campus organizing played a vital role in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, student activism will continue to enrich and augment the movement to liberate Palestine. This past weekend, PennBDS demonstrated once again that in the face of the truth, Zionist forces are only left with ad hominem attacks, intimidation, and vicious smear-campaigns.

USPCN is committed to working to build the movement in the US for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. We look forward to participating in the continuing work coming from the PennBDS conference and working with Students for Justice in Palestine to build the campus movement. As we move towards Israeli Apartheid Week 2012, it is clear that Zionist lies and intimidation will do nothing to stop the Palestinian movement nor student activism, organizing and solidarity for Palestinian return and liberation.