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At around 6pm last Thursday (11/13), three Palestinian students (1 male, 2 female) were beaten up on the UC Berkeley campus by members of a right-wing Zionist group, the Zionist Freedom Alliance. A second incident occurred the following night in which another Palestinian student was attacked by unknown assailants on campus. For SJP's statement on the attacks see -
http://calsjp.org/2008/11/14/
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The Campus Antiwar Network condemns unreservedly this despicable act of racist violence and wishes to express its complete and unwavering solidarity with the members of Students for Justice in Palestine, and all Arab and Muslim students both on and off the UCB campus. We also echo SJP's call to the campus administration to investigate the incident immediately and bring those responsible to justice.
We call on all students, at Cal and elsewhere, to come together to combat racism and Islamophobia however and whenever it rears its head. Arab and Muslim students are particularly vulnerable to bigotry and racism at this time of imperialist war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, and we must stand with them against those who seek to use violence and prejudice to divide students against one another on racial/ethnic lines.
In solidarity,
CAN
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