Several groups across the 5Cs hosted events this week to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023.
Tag: Israel-Palestine
Gazan poet Yahya Ashour at Pitzer
At Pitzer’s Benson auditorium on Nov. 18, Gazan poet and incoming visiting English and World Literature professor Yahya Ashour read excerpts of his collection “A Gaza of Siege and Genocide.”
Haverim paints over Walker Wall with ‘apolitical and inclusive’ designs
Haverim painted over Walker Wall on Oct. 19 with “apolitical and inclusive” designs in an attempt to help students feel more united on campus.
Starr suspends Pomona College students for remainder of academic year without judicial hearings
Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr has suspended 10 students for the 2024-2025 academic year without judicial hearings.
OPINION: Pomona will protest or perish
As Pomona and Scripps College double down on punishing student protestors, guest writer Maggie Zhang PO ’26 reflects on how protests serve as the ultimate expression of the college’s core values, and therefore must be protected and respected.
5C students walkout Oct. 7; occupy and vandalize Carnegie Hall
On the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel, over 400 5C students gathered to call for Pomona to divest from the state of Israel.
5C Jewish groups mourn lives lost in Oct. 7 attack
This week, various Jewish groups on campus organized mourning activities to commemorate the lives lost on Oct. 7 and in related conflicts.
GUEST EDITORIAL: Pomona’s culpability under International Humanitarian Law
Mike Withey PO ’68 calls for us to reflect on our current state of the world and to recognize the responsibility that we ALL have. Withey specifically identifies Pomona as complicit in our current world crisis. Calling for Pomona to take responsibility under international law, Withey argues for an academic conference and divestment.
‘Should Universities Boycott, Divest, or Sanction Israel?’: Professors debate productivity of BDS on college campuses
On Saturday, Oct. 5, Claremont McKenna College’s (CMC) Open Academy hosted a discussion titled “Should Universities Boycott, Divest, or Sanction Israel” at CMC’s Kravis Center. Featuring two professors, one advocated the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement while the other argued against it. The BDS movement calls for institutions to cut
Vigil at Scripps College remembers lives lost
Campus vigil unites over 100 people in solidarity for victims of the war in Palestine and Lebanon.