The UConn students organizing "UCommune" (perhaps more correctly named "UCommie") just celebrated their inclusion on the Resistance News Network (RNN) list of schools that have established Gaza solidarity encampments.
UConn joined their new comrades after setting up their encampment last night.
But do these students, and other student protestors caught up in "Gaza solidarity encampment" fever, have any idea what they are actually supporting? Or what RNN really is?
Of course, RNN is awfully pleased with the "revolutionary student movement" that is rapidly spreading throughout college and university campuses around the world, all of which emerged to show solidarity with Palestine and to "impede US imperial support for the genocidal zionist entity."
Some of the encampments have even "reclaimed" university space and renamed it to show alignment with the movement, including Cal Poly Humboldt students renaming "Siemens Hall" to "Intifada Hall" and Emerson students in Boston renaming the street of their encampment to "Walid Daqqah Alley."
The way RNN sees it, there have been "hundreds" of peaceful protestors who have been "beaten by American zionist police forces, whose tactics are inherited from the IOF (Israel Occupation Forces)."
RNN distributes pro-Hamas propaganda for those interested in joining the revolution.
The RNN Information and Media Guide describes the positions of the "Palestinian liberation struggle" and offers glory to the martyrs who support Palestinian liberation.
The RNN Resistance Fact Sheet tells folks that the "right to resist via armed struggle" is actually enshrined into law for "colonized people" no matter what international law actually dictates.
The RNN Guide to Palestinian Factions is more like a series of trading cards that glorifies the most prominent terrorist groups operating in the Palestinian resistance landscape, including the Al-Qassam Brigades (the Hamas military faction), Sarāyā al-Quds (a paramilitary organization and the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad), al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades (the armed wing of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), and more.
Other materials shared in the RNN propaganda kit include a 12-page compilation of excerpts from Lions Den, which is a Palestinian militant group operating in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and a 52-page booklet of articles that celebrate the "resistance" in Palestine.
The RNN propaganda is rounded out with a Resource Toolkit from Islam and Revolution so that new comrades can keep up with current events in Palestine and international solidarity actions and a short collection of translated resistance statements that provide an overview of the principles of the resistance movement.
After perusing the propaganda, one has to wonder if any of the students who were excited to see their encampment listed on RNN bothered to take a closer look at what they are getting themselves into by aligning with a "revolutionary" news network that supports known terrorist organizations.
Here is the updated list of universities with encampments or other visible support for Gaza, according to RNN:
- Fashion Institute of Technology - New York City, NY
- Indiana University Bloomington - Bloomington, IN
- University of California Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
- University of Texas, Arlington - Arlington, TX
- Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
- University of Houston - Houston, TX
- University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
- Portland State University - Portland, OR
- Stanford University - Stanford, California
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Champaign, IL
- University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT
- Warwick University - UK
Previously reported encampments:
- Brown University - Providence, RI
- California State Polytechnic University - Humboldt, CA
- City University of New York - New York City, NY
- Columbia University - New York City, NY
- Emerson College - Boston, MA
- Emory University - Atlanta, GA
- Florida International University - Miami, FL
- Florida State University - Tallahassee, FL
- George Washington University - DC
- Harvard University - Cambridge, MA.
- Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis, IN
- New York University - New York City, NY
- Northeastern University - Boston, MA
- Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
- Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
- Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
- Rice University - Houston, TX
- Texas A&M - College Station, TX
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Cambridge, MA
- Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI
- The New School - New York City, NY
- The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
- Tufts University - Medford, MA
- University of Arizona - Tucson
- University of California at Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
- University of Maryland - College Park, MD
- University of Miami - Oxford, OH
- University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
- University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Charlotte, NC
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC
- University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
- University of Rochester - Rochester, NY
- University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA
- University of Texas, Austin - Austin, TX
- University of Texas at Dallas - Dallas, TX
- Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN
- Yale University - New Haven, CT
Australia:
- University of Sydney
- Melbourne University
France:
- SciencesPo - Paris
