Students for Justice in Palestine at UCI

NEW ITEMS DROPPED‼️Get your kuffiyehs (now in diff colors), prints, bracelets, AND stickers and support!! 🇵🇸🇱🇧🔥 Art prints by @ohmaizarts

🚨BREAKING🚨UCI LAUNCHES ENCAMPMENT FOR GAZA 🇵🇸 📣JOIN US @ THE PHYSICAL SCIENCE QUAD ALL DAY AND NIGHT📣 Today, April 29th, students, workers, and community members launched a Palestine Solidarity Encampment on UCI campus, joining the global Popular University for Gaza movement across the world to demanding our universities end their complicity in the genocide in Palestine ❤️‍🔥WE WONT REST UNTIL THEY DIVEST❤️‍🔥 🇵🇸UNTIL TOTAL LIBERATION AND RETURN🇵🇸 📍School of Physical Sciences, Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697

Today marks 78 years since the 1948 Nakba. The Nakba is still ongoing as we see continued displacement and destruction for Palestinians. We will not rest until complete liberation. 🇵🇸 Swipe to see our statement —>

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13TH Tatreez Workshop x BMP ‼️ Learn hands-on about Palestinian culture as a form of resistance, rootedness, and identity 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥

The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State: A Book Talk with Emmaia Gelman  Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026 TIME: 5:00 pm Location: Social Science Plaza A (SSPA) 1100 “The ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism, individual rights, and the West against communists and barbarians. And it has never looked back.” –Robin D. G. Kelley The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) once sought to portray itself as a defender of civil rights aligned with racial justice movements in the United States. In a groundbreaking study that Publishers Weekly describes as a “gutsy, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization,” Emmaia Gelman exposes the ADL’s alliance with American white supremacy and western empire and its historic investment in Cold War anticommunism. Her definitive account shows how the ADL as a Zionist organization has advanced and supported pro-state policing, a hate-crimes framework that obscures racialized structures of power, and a “War on Terror” that has stoked anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia.  Emmaia Gelman is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She has taught social and cultural analysis at NYU and social sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing appears in Jewish Currents, Boston Review, The Forward, and elsewhere. Cosponsored by the UCI Department of Global & International Studies, UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence, UC Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, the Ethnic Studies Council at the University of California, and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.

TUESDAY, MAY 12TH Palestine 36 Film Screening ‼️ Join us in watching a beautifully made film following the story of the Palestinian revolt against British rule 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 DM FOR LOC

MONDAY, MAY 11TH Peoples University 2-6 pm‼️ Feel free to drop by any time to discuss, learn, or participate in our activities 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥

JOIN US FOR PALESTINE LIBERATION WEEK‼️🇵🇸

Join us May 11-15 for a week of programming filled with empowering discussions and cultural celebration ‼️Keep an eye out for specific event details coming soon ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸

Join MSU & SJP on Thursday April 30 for a session on the history of student activism and repression at UCI!

Abdaljawad Omar, “The Dialectic of Explosion and Implosion: Palestine, Sovereignty, and the Universal Stakes of Gaza” on April 29, 11am in HIB 135 AND ZOOM This lecture examines the October 7, 2023 Operation Tufan al-Aqsa and the subsequent genocide in Gaza as a critical juncture that exposes both the fragility and adaptability of colonial power. Operating within an unresolved tension between two competing theses-Israel’s possible implosion under its own contradictions versus the normalization of its exceptionalist logic on a global scale-the talk analyzes how a single rupture in the Zionist security apparatus has catalyzed a transformation of sovereignty itself. Abdaljawad Omar is a Palestinian writer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. His work explores the intersections of political thought, resistance, and settler colonialism, with a particular focus on the intellectual and affective histories of resistance.

Abdaljawad Omar, “The Dialectic of Explosion and Implosion: Palestine, Sovereignty, and the Universal Stakes of Gaza” on April 29, 11am in HIB 135 - Steven Thrasher, “The USA’s Global Assault on HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ Labor” on April 30, 5pm in SSPA 1100 - Steven Thrasher, “Theorizing an Overseer Class” on May 1, 12:30pm in SBSG 1517 - Sherene Seikaly, “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine,” May 15 at 4:30pm in HG 1030