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In response, Israeli forces have since waged a relentless assault on Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/middleeast/palestinians-displaced-gaza-israel-intl/index.html\">displacing almost its entire population\u003c/a> and destroying some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-damage-reconstruction-d120f8a0dc8b728c0d8332046a524a92\">two-thirds of its infrastructure\u003c/a>. As of mid-January, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43565/gaza-ceasefire-begins-after-delay\">a temporary ceasefire\u003c/a> went into effect, at least 46,000 residents of the enclave had been killed in the conflict, according to Gaza officials, a tally that many observers say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/health/gaza-death-toll.html\">a substantial underestimate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siege galvanized fierce protests throughout the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">Bay Area and the country \u003c/a>against the war and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors\"> United States’ substantial aid and support for Israel\u003c/a>. Even with the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-17-2025-c20c9664938b267354c9ac4812621a1e\">fragile ceasefire still being observed\u003c/a>, many pro-Palestinian activists are continuing to demand that American elected officials be held accountable for supporting Israel, which they say helped to directly facilitate the mass destruction in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Christine Hong, a professor of ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz, who said she and many other constituents are “appalled” by the contributions Panetta received from AIPAC-affiliated donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028188 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters stand in front of a banner opposing representatives who support funding for Israel.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters with the group Taxpayers Against Genocide stage a press conference in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Leon Kunstensaar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Panetta] listens to one constituency and it is a pro-Israel constituency. It is a hawkish constituency,” Hong said. “He has obligingly implemented AIPAC’s foreign policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong was part of a class-action lawsuit against Panetta and seven other Northern California Democratic leaders, including Reps. Mike Thompson, Jared Huffman, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin Mullin, Anna Eshoo, as well as Sen. Alex Padilla and then-Sen. Laphonza Butler. The suit accused them of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide?attribution_id=sl:37e8a0f8-f859-4798-a47a-ef5d60005be7&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link\">“illegally [using] tax dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza,” \u003c/a>citing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/releases/2025/01/leahy-law-fact-sheet\">Leahy law\u003c/a>, a set of statutes that prohibit the U.S. from using funds to provide aid to foreign security forces when there is credible evidence of “gross violations of human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 10, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed the case, writing that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/56242583/DONNELLY_et_al_v_THOMPSON_et_al\">“presents a nonjusticiable political question.”\u003c/a> A similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">lawsuit against former President Biden\u003c/a> was also dismissed by an Oakland judge last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma City resident Seth Donnelly, who was part of the most recent lawsuit, said the group — who call themselves Taxpayers Against Genocide — is working with the National Lawyers Guild to bring the case to the United Nations Human Rights Council in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes publicized to the rest of the world,” Donnelly said. “It’s one other level of achieving documentation of our officials’ involvement in genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, a Pacific Grove resident who lives in Panetta’s district, said it’s concerning that her representative has taken so much money from AIPAC-affiliated groups. Since the war began, Alaydi, who is Palestinian American, has been desperately trying to get her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">younger brothers and their families\u003c/a> out of Gaza, some of whom need urgent medical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she had exchanged several emails with a staff member in Panetta’s office to try to expedite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">her request for humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family, first contacting his office in late November 2023, according to emails she shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997617 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag in a park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi waves a Palestinian flag at Window on the Bay Park in Monterey on June 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Panetta’s office told Alaydi that her case was still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need some help from my representative, from someone in the Congress or someone in a high-rank office to speak on my behalf,” Alaydi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari, added that elected officials have “great leeway and a large role to play” when it comes to pushing through applications like humanitarian parole and hopes the significant contributions from AIPAC-related groups have not in any way influenced his willingness to help her client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sincerely hope that Rep. Panetta will not be unduly influenced by the AIPAC contributions he receives and that he will act fairly towards his Palestinian American constituents,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office declined to speak on the record but told KQED that it has provided Alaydi with assistance and continues to work to resolve her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office also added that Alaydi is among nearly 50 other constituents seeking help with visas and humanitarian requests, a process that can take more than a year to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Alaydi, time is of the essence — particularly in light of President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7212848/trump-gaza-own/\">recent highly controversial proposals\u003c/a> for the future of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pay taxes. I’m a good citizen. I’m a very active member in the community,” Alaydi said. “I’m just asking — look to us as a human, and extend a hand of humanitarian assistance and bring them here for safety. Give them a chance to live.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>During the 2024 election season, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D–Santa Cruz) received upward of $250,000 in campaign contributions from pro-Israel groups — far outpacing the amount given to any other congressional representative in the Central or Northern California region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that two-year period, during which the devastating war in Gaza erupted and pro-Israel groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">ramped up their political spending\u003c/a>, Panetta — who represents a coastal swath of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties — \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/recipients?id=D000046963&t2-Chamber=House&t2-search=panetta\">was given\u003c/a> $10,000 directly from the PAC affiliated with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee \u003c/a>(AIPAC), and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">more than $243,000\u003c/a> from donors closely linked to the group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/recipients?id=D000046963&t2-Chamber=House&t2-search=panetta\">according to Open Secrets\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan political finance tracker. OpenSecrets does not disclose the names of the individual donors, which it defines as “members, employees or owners of the organization, and those individuals’ immediate family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta was the third-highest recipient of AIPAC-affiliated contributions among congressional incumbents in California, eclipsed only by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D–Redlands), who took in more than half a million dollars, and Rep. Ken Calvert (R–Corona), who received $471,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AIPAC-affiliated spending on congressional races \" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nfbaE\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nfbaE/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a substantial sum from donors affiliated with a group whose mission is to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/about\">strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel relationship” \u003c/a>has drawn scrutiny from many of Panetta’s constituents in Santa Cruz and some of the other left-leaning areas he represents, where pro-Palestinian protests against Israel — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">particularly at UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> — have been commonplace since the conflict began more than 16 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pro-Palestinian activists in the district say they’re concerned about the contributions, pointing to the congressman’s \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024152\">vote last April in support\u003c/a> of sending billions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8034\">aid to the Israeli military. \u003c/a>They note that such support comes even as his father,\u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4578364-israelis-fire-then-ask-questions-my-experience-former-defense-secretary/\"> Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and U.S. representative\u003c/a>, has publicly criticized some of Israel’s tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Longinotti, a Santa Cruz resident involved with \u003ca href=\"https://panetta-vigil.org/344-2/\">Panetta Vigil\u003c/a>, a nascent group of Panetta’s constituents who oppose his support for Israel, said the congressman’s position on Israel “more closely resembles Republican votes in the House of Representatives,” which he said is out of step with a largely “pro-peace” district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longinotti notes that Panetta was among a group of just 45 Democratic colleagues who joined every House Republican in supporting \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20257\">a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC)\u003c/a> in response to arrest warrants it issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/resources/house-adopts-icc-act\">strongly backed by AIPAC\u003c/a>, passed the House but was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/28/us-senate-blocks-bill-sanctioning-icc-over-israeli-arrest-warrants\">ultimately blocked\u003c/a> by Senate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, the congressman’s campaign staff did not specifically address the contributions but emphasized that Panetta has traveled to Israel on several occasions since the conflict began, “focusing on the release of hostages from Gaza, including six Americans, supporting the defense of our major non-NATO ally, ensuring humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and bringing a lasting peace in the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement goes on to stress that Panetta “firmly believes that it is his responsibility to learn more about the people and issues of the region,” and the U.S. “must continue to support and stay engaged with our partners so that our shared values are upheld as we continue to work towards a peaceful resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also notes that “countless constituents in his district and numerous people throughout California and the United States have been grateful, appreciative, and supportive” of his efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/nx-s1-5066702/why-pro-israel-pacs-are-helping-oust-democrats-in-their-primaries\">role in American politics\u003c/a> has come into greater focus since the attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in which Hamas-led militants killed more than 1,200 people and took roughly 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. In response, Israeli forces have since waged a relentless assault on Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/middleeast/palestinians-displaced-gaza-israel-intl/index.html\">displacing almost its entire population\u003c/a> and destroying some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-damage-reconstruction-d120f8a0dc8b728c0d8332046a524a92\">two-thirds of its infrastructure\u003c/a>. As of mid-January, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43565/gaza-ceasefire-begins-after-delay\">a temporary ceasefire\u003c/a> went into effect, at least 46,000 residents of the enclave had been killed in the conflict, according to Gaza officials, a tally that many observers say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/health/gaza-death-toll.html\">a substantial underestimate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siege galvanized fierce protests throughout the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">Bay Area and the country \u003c/a>against the war and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors\"> United States’ substantial aid and support for Israel\u003c/a>. Even with the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-17-2025-c20c9664938b267354c9ac4812621a1e\">fragile ceasefire still being observed\u003c/a>, many pro-Palestinian activists are continuing to demand that American elected officials be held accountable for supporting Israel, which they say helped to directly facilitate the mass destruction in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Christine Hong, a professor of ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz, who said she and many other constituents are “appalled” by the contributions Panetta received from AIPAC-affiliated donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028188 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters stand in front of a banner opposing representatives who support funding for Israel.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters with the group Taxpayers Against Genocide stage a press conference in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Leon Kunstensaar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Panetta] listens to one constituency and it is a pro-Israel constituency. It is a hawkish constituency,” Hong said. “He has obligingly implemented AIPAC’s foreign policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong was part of a class-action lawsuit against Panetta and seven other Northern California Democratic leaders, including Reps. Mike Thompson, Jared Huffman, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin Mullin, Anna Eshoo, as well as Sen. Alex Padilla and then-Sen. Laphonza Butler. The suit accused them of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide?attribution_id=sl:37e8a0f8-f859-4798-a47a-ef5d60005be7&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link\">“illegally [using] tax dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza,” \u003c/a>citing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/releases/2025/01/leahy-law-fact-sheet\">Leahy law\u003c/a>, a set of statutes that prohibit the U.S. from using funds to provide aid to foreign security forces when there is credible evidence of “gross violations of human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 10, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed the case, writing that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/56242583/DONNELLY_et_al_v_THOMPSON_et_al\">“presents a nonjusticiable political question.”\u003c/a> A similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">lawsuit against former President Biden\u003c/a> was also dismissed by an Oakland judge last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma City resident Seth Donnelly, who was part of the most recent lawsuit, said the group — who call themselves Taxpayers Against Genocide — is working with the National Lawyers Guild to bring the case to the United Nations Human Rights Council in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes publicized to the rest of the world,” Donnelly said. “It’s one other level of achieving documentation of our officials’ involvement in genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, a Pacific Grove resident who lives in Panetta’s district, said it’s concerning that her representative has taken so much money from AIPAC-affiliated groups. Since the war began, Alaydi, who is Palestinian American, has been desperately trying to get her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">younger brothers and their families\u003c/a> out of Gaza, some of whom need urgent medical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she had exchanged several emails with a staff member in Panetta’s office to try to expedite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">her request for humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family, first contacting his office in late November 2023, according to emails she shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997617 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag in a park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi waves a Palestinian flag at Window on the Bay Park in Monterey on June 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Panetta’s office told Alaydi that her case was still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need some help from my representative, from someone in the Congress or someone in a high-rank office to speak on my behalf,” Alaydi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari, added that elected officials have “great leeway and a large role to play” when it comes to pushing through applications like humanitarian parole and hopes the significant contributions from AIPAC-related groups have not in any way influenced his willingness to help her client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sincerely hope that Rep. Panetta will not be unduly influenced by the AIPAC contributions he receives and that he will act fairly towards his Palestinian American constituents,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office declined to speak on the record but told KQED that it has provided Alaydi with assistance and continues to work to resolve her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office also added that Alaydi is among nearly 50 other constituents seeking help with visas and humanitarian requests, a process that can take more than a year to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Alaydi, time is of the essence — particularly in light of President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7212848/trump-gaza-own/\">recent highly controversial proposals\u003c/a> for the future of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians started returning to northern Gaza after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ceasefire is currently in its first stage; 33 hostages will be returned to Israel and 2,000 Palestinian prisoners will be released. Despite initial celebrations, many are nervous about whether this ceasefire will hold, and what Gaza’s future will look like. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, we hear reactions to the ceasefire from three Palestinians in northern California who have family in Gaza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2309835697&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023476/tentative-relief-and-fear-4-bay-area-palestinian-americans-react-to-the-gaza-ceasefire\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tentative Relief and Fear: 4 Bay Area Palestinian Americans React to the Gaza Ceasefire\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:01:19] It’s a mixed feeling. It’s relief and joy that it’s ceasefire. I have the feeling of fear. My name is Rolla Alaydi. Originally born in Gaza. Right now I’m in California, Pacific Grove. Like a cease fire doesn’t mean it’s the war ended. It just a little pause. You know, they pause the stop. They pause the killing any time they can go and resume and. There is a little bit of relief. And then sometimes there is so much build and accumulated of fear and worried and anxious at the end, Everything’s. Like I’ve been texting my my family like, you know, they are just holding their breath like, what if something happened and then this cease fire is no longer active or not valid anymore. Family, I talked to them. They still live in the tent, is still no education, he health system 100% destroyed does not exist anymore. But the relief that there is no bombing hour by hour. My niece, she’s 17. Her name is Rolla. They named her after me. Three hours before they announced the cease fire, she got shot in the stomach and the bullets came from the neck, the front of stomach to the back. She was living in the tent. She survived. She got some stitches. Like for the last three days, I was having that worried constant worry. My aunt Zainab. Her home got bombed and she got killed, along with her husband and her family. It was one hour before the cease fire took place. So I’m just a little bit relief, but I’m overwhelmed, you know. The whole Gaza is is in the condition of uncertainty. It’s been 15 months and I’m the only one who support my family financially. I think I’m going to continue through this. You know, things does not change within like a magic touch. It’s not like permanent. And that’s give me even more worried. Like I’m racing with the time. Like are they going to open the borders? Are they going to allow people to travel? So I’m still in that fear and that worry and in that stage of uncertainty. And I want them to leave the genocide war zone. Trump being in the new presidency terms, even the little hope that I have, it’s gone, you know, But I just want them to get like, you know, to other place that’s relatively safe. But that hope of coming to the US, it’s just it’s just vanished. I hope the cease fire will turn out to be like more permanent, more rebuild of Gaza. And for people like, you know, to have the sense of of normality again. Without community, I can’t do it by myself. So I still, like, need the full support of my community and they are doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nafez Abo-Elreich \u003c/strong>[00:05:09] I was happy for the ceasefire at least to end the misery for a lot of people there. A lot of people like my my family, a lot of families there. They got to go back to their house to find nothing. My name is Nafez Abo-Elrich, and I live in Fresno, California. Since I’m trying to remember December 20th, 23, should they live in a tent with my brother and his wife, his kid and his daughter and have kids? My brother has a big family, six kids, and some of them are married and they have the grandkids. So they were living in a miserable situation. Of course, no water, no running water, no bathrooms. They’re going to pick up their tents and go back, Like my sister said today. She talked to me today. And I want to my sister, she said that I would love to go and just stay in the ruin of my house. And it’s a tent in there and stay in it better than the miseries we are living in right now. I hope everybody goes there and find their loved one. Save their property is in good condition, at least livable condition. But from the pictures I have seen, I do not think at least I know that my sister’s two of them. Their houses are gone to pieces. That their houses are gone. My three nephews, their houses are gone. So it’s a challenge for them. What we have to do is just get together and maybe our family home still standing by. That sustained a lot of damage, but it’s fixable at that. You know, it’s livable. It’s not that bad. But let’s keep in mind, there is no running water, no power, no sewage running sewage, no electricity, no phones, no Internet there, no food. So far, no gas for cooking. So it’s it’s a challenge for them. But and other and they’re happy that there is a cease fire and they’re going back to their houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush \u003c/strong>[00:07:35] For the Palestinian liberation and the Palestinian struggle. For the first time in 76 years, the world understood the truth that we’re living in. My name is Mama Ganuush. I am a community organizer, an activist. My mother lost two of her siblings in this war and their entire families. And as somebody who lives with cancer and all of this grief, there is no way for her to process the grief because the killing just doesn’t stop. And she told me it was a. It was a relief for her that she doesn’t have to feel that anymore. Now, as she’s finally understood the the heaviness of it and she could start grieving. Idea for Palestinians to be able to breathe is profound. In addition, of course, to rebuild. We need to process this drama. We were not able to process this drama the past year over year and a half. We were trying to stop the drama and now we could at least start processing it. Scary for me to even think about how we’re going to rebuild, that Palestinians are literally rebuilding as we speak, is a release of people like building plants in their little backyard. With the house. It’s all destroyed, you know, like putting back like fruit bats and everything. So it’s just my people. I just are it’s just joy and freedom. Well, my next step is to help my family rebuild their lives. Rebuilding permanent ceasefire, cultural boycotts and accountability for the people who committed genocide against my people. Rebuilt for me is also mean bring their voices up all the time and remember their voices and making sure that it echoes in and in European and American chambers. We just filed a lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi. A lot of different people across different counties in California to hold our federal representatives accountable for using our tax dollars for a genocide. And it’s a lawsuit that is not just for Palestinian Americans, for all Americans that pay taxes, federal taxes. They have the right to sue for the harm that these taxes were used to. That’s. I feel like what I could do. I’m very grateful to find my way back home. To my identity, to my people, to my origin, and also feel that I have a purpose in life. I didn’t want that to be my purpose. I wish my purpose in life is to create art and just be joyful and build community. But Palestinians don’t get to choose, unfortunately, But they get to own the narrative. And as a queer Palestinian activist, I am owning my narratives and the Palestinian voices in this.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They don’t even think that they have grounds for discipline, and they think that there could be a crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt?”[aside postID=news_11991389 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dee Mostofi, a Stanford spokesperson, said in an email to KQED that the “student conduct review process” for Gohill was completed at the end of last year but did not address concerns from Gohill’s representatives about whether the university would retract its statements about prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday afternoon, the district attorney’s office had not filed charges against Gohill. Sean Webby, communications director for the office, said it is still waiting on all the information from the case before making a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the groups supporting Gohill have emphasized that on the day of the protests, he was dressed in red Stanford Daily attire and displayed a press badge. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Rolla Alaydi saw the news on Saturday that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022344/israel-hamas-cease-fire-not-end-humanitarian-crisis-bay-area-activists-say\">the temporary Israel-Hamas ceasefire\u003c/a> in Gaza was actually going into effect, the Pacific Grove resident said she felt a surge of tentative relief that the 15-month onslaught of violence against her homeland was, at least for the moment, coming to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But amid the intense trauma and the lack of certainty about a permanent ceasefire, Alaydi knows it is not time to relax just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, it’s known that [Israel] can stop it or violate it,” said Alaydi, a U.S. citizen who was born in Gaza and has been trying to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">evacuate 21 members of her family\u003c/a> from the enclave since the war began. “So I have that fear: like any minute, [the ceasefire is] going to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-week ceasefire — which former President Joe Biden claims mirrored \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-announces-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-2025-01-15/\">his proposed plans from May\u003c/a> (and President Trump has since taken credit for) — entails an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, when militants killed about 1,200 people and took some 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities, Israeli forces have waged a relentless assault on Gaza, displacing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/middleeast/palestinians-displaced-gaza-israel-intl/index.html\">almost its entire population \u003c/a>and destroying roughly\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-damage-reconstruction-d120f8a0dc8b728c0d8332046a524a92\"> two-thirds of its infrastructure\u003c/a>, including homes, hospitals, and schools. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-has-israels-gaza-offensive-killed-2025-01-15/\">More than 46,600 people\u003c/a> have been killed in the bombardment, according to Gaza officials, a number that many experts say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/health/gaza-death-toll.html\">a gross underestimate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/middleeast/israel-gaza-genocide-un-special-committee-intl-latam/index.html\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid such devastation, Gaza’s future is still very much in limbo, even if the ceasefire is extended beyond the initial six-week period.\u003cbr>\nAnd it comes as violence continues to flare throughout the region, including on Wednesday, when Israeli settlers in the West Bank \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/22/israel-gaza-war-ceasefire-hamas-west-bank/\">rampaged through Palestinian villages\u003c/a>, killing 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if [the ceasefire] sticks, that doesn’t mean \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-students-future/\">those universities are coming back right away\u003c/a>. All the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-body-issues-damning-report-israeli-attacks-gaza-hospitals-2024-12-31/\">hospitals have been destroyed\u003c/a>. There are tons and tons of people who have extraordinary wounds. People have been malnourished. People have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-famine-biden-trump-fews-89b4a0d3ab684669ee4456566b406621\">starved\u003c/a>,” said Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor. “What is going to happen to them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unctad-report-10sep24/\">UN report from September\u003c/a> backs these fears, finding it could take \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-reconstruction-un-0ac47ddba7401e102b2bb95e85f3e105\">over 350 years for Gaza’s economy to return to pre-war levels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “huge questions” about the future “tempers any euphoria” that the ceasefire deal might bring, Makdisi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be happy in the sense that the immediate, intense, overwhelming killing, at least for now, has stopped in Gaza. But there’s still what’s going to happen next,” he said. “Are the Palestinians of Gaza going to be allowed to have a normal life? Are they going to live a life free of siege?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the announcement of the ceasefire, KQED followed up with four Palestinian Americans in the Bay Area who are grappling with these heavy questions, as they process the news and what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The drag artist suing their representatives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based drag performer Mama Ganuush, who lost multiple family members in Gaza over the past year, said they don’t trust the ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recent news did at least allow Ganuush and their family time to mourn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have time to grieve,” they said. “The past year and a half, we were trying to stop the trauma, and now we [can] actually start processing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023268 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a white robe, purple scarf and hat sits for a photo.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the war, Ganuush has been working tirelessly to showcase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990430/why-these-queer-pro-palestinian-advocates-are-calling-for-a-boycott-of-sf-pride\">queer Palestinian art and activism\u003c/a> — whether it be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">through performance\u003c/a> or by assisting efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2025/01/13/israel-gaza-war-hiv-aids-medication/\">send HIV medication to Gaza residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush is also part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/taxpayersagainstgenocide/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week alleging that several Northern California congressional representatives, including Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Mike Thompson of Napa, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide?attribution_id=sl:37e8a0f8-f859-4798-a47a-ef5d60005be7&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link\">“illegally [used] tax dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush said the lawsuit is an opportunity to have their family’s story told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be really hard. I’m not forgetting them because I’m bringing them in court,” they said. “It’s part of my grieving, but also part of my responsibility towards my people — is to say their name and to remember them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush plans to travel to Egypt at the end of January in the hope that the border to Gaza will open and they can see their family and help them recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The doctor who is going back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mohammad Subeh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">an emergency room doctor in the South Bay, with Palestinian roots, said \u003c/a>he plans to return to Gaza in early February to provide much-needed medical support to residents, where the \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158741\">health care system has been utterly decimated\u003c/a> by Israeli airstrikes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010352/apocalyptic-horror-movie-what-bay-area-volunteers-witnessed-gaza-west-bank\">aid workers attacked\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">killed\u003c/a>. And while he hopes the ceasefire holds, he said the situation feels “fragile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh has already made multiple medical trips to Gaza and Lebanon in the past year — and has witnessed the immense degree of destruction and pain.[aside label=\"Related coverage\" postID=\"arts_13967427,news_11999445,news_11997602\"]“As someone who lived through at least two-and-a-half months on the ground in Gaza [during] the constant bombardment by the Israelis, you really don’t know whether or not [the ceasefire] will hold up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On hearing of the ceasefire, Subeh said he initially felt a degree of frustration, knowing the conflict could have ended at least a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important for us to remember that this deal has been on the table for at least 13 months,” he said. “And just thinking of all the tens of thousands of lives that were taken during that time frame, all the destruction of Gaza, the starvation of the people there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said there is also a sense of relief among the doctors and nurses currently on the ground in Gaza that he has spoken to in recent days. They can now work without “fighter jets above our heads and drones dropping bombs,” said Subeh, who is also currently running for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DE3HjmsT0At/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&img_index=1\">a seat in the California State Assembly\u003c/a> on a platform focused on human rights and social justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “This \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/what-do-we-know-about-the-israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal\">pause\u003c/a> is necessary, but it’s insufficient to solve the problem of the colonization and occupation of Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The mother who fears for her children\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As someone who lost more than 50 family members in Gaza since the war began, Fatima said she wishes she could “feel some joy” from the news of the ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an issue that we’ve had to live with our whole life,” said Fatima, a Santa Clara County resident, who asked that her name not be used out of concern for the safety of surviving family members in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it has been heartbreaking to see her pre-teen children process the tragedy in Gaza and see \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/jerusalem-al-aqsa-media-coverage-israeli-violence-palestinians/\">“dehumanizing” depictions of Palestinians\u003c/a> in Western media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been forced to have conversations with my children, especially at such a formative age, and see their spirit be broken,” she said. “It’s been one of the worst years of my life as a parent. The worst, I would say, hands down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fatima said her children’s friends, many of whom are Jewish and supported protests against Israel, helped them cope with the unfolding tragedy. It also enabled her to connect with other parents from diverse backgrounds who have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy/352663/anti-palestinian-racism-islamophobia-antisemitism\">struggled with institutional racism\u003c/a> and are committed to fighting “hate and bigotry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support that I’ve received came from the most amazing places,” she said. “And those places were not people who look like me or my children, but they were people who understand oppression … I actually felt heard as a Palestinian, and I didn’t feel like I was being dismissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The eldest sister still fighting for her family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">the Pacific Grove resident\u003c/a>, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005005/its-just-killing-me-the-palestinian-americans-trying-to-get-family-out-of-gaza\">the minute the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza opens,\u003c/a> she intends to help evacuate her family so they can have stable shelter and seek medical attention. Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">family in Gaza\u003c/a> includes her younger brothers and their families. One of her nieces, who is 12, has epilepsy. Another niece, a young student who has dreams of becoming a doctor, was recently shot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months ago, Alaydi applied for humanitarian parole for her family, to allow them to come to the U.S., but now fears the Trump administration will block those options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023271\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023271 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a long robe poses for a photo in front of the ocean.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1920x1255.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands for a portrait at Del Monte Beach in Monterey on June 23, 2024. Rolla traveled to Egypt in April to help her 21 family members try to escape Gaza but had to travel back to California without them when Israel’s attack on Rafah began and the border closed. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even the little hope that I have is gone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her son was excited to welcome his younger cousins to the U.S. — to buy them food, to show them the beauty of where they live and “give them a relatively normal human life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Alaydi said she is just looking to help them get anywhere outside Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want them to get to another place that’s relatively safe,” she said. “But that hope of coming to the US, it’s just vanished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz and Lakshmi Sarah contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/middleeast/israel-gaza-genocide-un-special-committee-intl-latam/index.html\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid such devastation, Gaza’s future is still very much in limbo, even if the ceasefire is extended beyond the initial six-week period.\u003cbr>\nAnd it comes as violence continues to flare throughout the region, including on Wednesday, when Israeli settlers in the West Bank \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/22/israel-gaza-war-ceasefire-hamas-west-bank/\">rampaged through Palestinian villages\u003c/a>, killing 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if [the ceasefire] sticks, that doesn’t mean \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-students-future/\">those universities are coming back right away\u003c/a>. All the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-body-issues-damning-report-israeli-attacks-gaza-hospitals-2024-12-31/\">hospitals have been destroyed\u003c/a>. There are tons and tons of people who have extraordinary wounds. People have been malnourished. People have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-famine-biden-trump-fews-89b4a0d3ab684669ee4456566b406621\">starved\u003c/a>,” said Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor. “What is going to happen to them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unctad-report-10sep24/\">UN report from September\u003c/a> backs these fears, finding it could take \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-reconstruction-un-0ac47ddba7401e102b2bb95e85f3e105\">over 350 years for Gaza’s economy to return to pre-war levels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “huge questions” about the future “tempers any euphoria” that the ceasefire deal might bring, Makdisi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be happy in the sense that the immediate, intense, overwhelming killing, at least for now, has stopped in Gaza. But there’s still what’s going to happen next,” he said. “Are the Palestinians of Gaza going to be allowed to have a normal life? 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The worst, I would say, hands down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fatima said her children’s friends, many of whom are Jewish and supported protests against Israel, helped them cope with the unfolding tragedy. It also enabled her to connect with other parents from diverse backgrounds who have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy/352663/anti-palestinian-racism-islamophobia-antisemitism\">struggled with institutional racism\u003c/a> and are committed to fighting “hate and bigotry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support that I’ve received came from the most amazing places,” she said. “And those places were not people who look like me or my children, but they were people who understand oppression … I actually felt heard as a Palestinian, and I didn’t feel like I was being dismissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The eldest sister still fighting for her family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">the Pacific Grove resident\u003c/a>, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005005/its-just-killing-me-the-palestinian-americans-trying-to-get-family-out-of-gaza\">the minute the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza opens,\u003c/a> she intends to help evacuate her family so they can have stable shelter and seek medical attention. Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">family in Gaza\u003c/a> includes her younger brothers and their families. One of her nieces, who is 12, has epilepsy. Another niece, a young student who has dreams of becoming a doctor, was recently shot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months ago, Alaydi applied for humanitarian parole for her family, to allow them to come to the U.S., but now fears the Trump administration will block those options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023271\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023271 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a long robe poses for a photo in front of the ocean.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1920x1255.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands for a portrait at Del Monte Beach in Monterey on June 23, 2024. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a multiphase ceasefire that commits them to end the war in Gaza, President Biden and Qatar’s prime minister announced separately on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This deal will halt the fighting in Gaza, surge much needed-humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians, and reunite the hostages with their families after more than 15 months in captivity,” Biden said. He said it was the same as a proposal he made in May 2024, which was endorsed by the United Nations Security Council.[aside postID=news_12022344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP-1020x680.jpg']Neither Israel nor Hamas immediately confirmed the deal, but officials close to the negotiations told NPR that both sides have reached a tentative ceasefire intended to end more than 15 months of the heaviest fighting ever between the two sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there remained “several unresolved points,” but hoped “the details will be finalized tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes after weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/13/g-s1-42463/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-hostage-talks\">intensive rounds of indirect negotiations\u003c/a> in the Qatari capital Doha between Israel and Hamas, mediated by facilitators from the U.S., Egypt and Qatar. In an unusual twist, envoys from both President Biden’s administration and President-elect Donald Trump’s team were also there, pressuring the sides to close a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceasefire is due to start on Sunday, according to Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. Several technical details about the agreement remain unclear, and it will require formal ratification by Israel’s cabinet before it can take effect. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog called on “the cabinet and the government of Israel to accept and approve it when presented,” saying, “At great cost in blood, through enormous security, diplomatic, and societal efforts, we have created a moment of opportunity. We must seize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Relatives and supporters of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip rally outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem on Jan. 14. \u003ccite>(Jamal Awad/Xinhua via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said he was cutting short a trip to Europe to return to Israel for a government meeting on the ceasefire, expected to take place Thursday. The country’s culture and sports minister, Miki Zohar, said in a statement he would vote on the agreement Thursday with his cabinet colleagues. “It is the duty of every government minister to vote in favor of the deal,” Zohar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Wednesday, Hamas had issued a statement that described a meeting between one of its senior leaders, Mohammed Darwish, and Ziad al-Nakhalah, the head of another armed faction that operates inside Gaza, the Islamic Jihad group. The statement said the two men’s discussion had involved “stressing the exertion of all efforts to make this round of negotiations a success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed news of the agreement, saying, “Our priority must be to ease the tremendous suffering caused by this conflict. … I call on all parties to facilitate the rapid, unhindered, and safe humanitarian relief for all civilians in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjZ1d9UE-k\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A deal in three phases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many obstacles remain, though, with fighting still ongoing. Palestinian officials reported Israeli attacks killed more than 50 people on Wednesday. But if all goes as planned, the deal is expected to take effect within days and play out in three phases over an extended period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first phase, lasting six weeks, Hamas promises to release 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for a far greater number of Palestinian detainees. It’s not clear how many are involved, since the group wants more detainees per each hostage freed alive, but has not said how many are still living. Most, but not all, are believed to be alive, according to Israeli officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total number of Palestinians released from Israeli custody is expected to be around 1,000, according to a Palestinian official who was not authorized to speak to the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel will reduce — but not end — its military presence in Gaza during the first phase. Hamas will not release the final hostages and Israel will not fully withdraw from Gaza until a later phase. The timeframes involved were not immediately clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President-elect Trump commented on his social media platform that there was a deal involving hostages. “THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY,” he wrote on his Truth Social network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Israeli President Isaac Herzog published a photograph on social media that showed Herzog meeting at his presidential residence in Jerusalem with the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, in what the spokesperson said was “part of preparations for the hostage deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It’s the first truce since November 2023\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This would be the first formal ceasefire since a one-week truce in November 2023, which included an exchange of about 100 Israeli hostages held in Gaza and 240 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli prisons. Subsequently, other hostages in Gaza were rescued or found dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/israel-gaza-war\">Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel from Gaza\u003c/a>, killing around 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages into Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We, the families of 98 hostages, welcome with overwhelming joy and relief the agreement to bring our loved ones home,” a statement by the \u003ca href=\"https://stories.bringthemhomenow.net/\">Hostages and Missing Families Forum\u003c/a> said. “We wish to express our profound gratitude to President-elect Trump, President Biden, both administrations, and the international mediators for making this possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities, who said the majority were women and children. The Israeli military says 405 soldiers have been killed in fighting since it invaded Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel and Hamas have fought a number of wars since the Palestinian militant organization wrested control of the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. However none of the previous conflicts have been nearly this long or this deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The statement said the two men’s discussion had involved “stressing the exertion of all efforts to make this round of negotiations a success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed news of the agreement, saying, “Our priority must be to ease the tremendous suffering caused by this conflict. … I call on all parties to facilitate the rapid, unhindered, and safe humanitarian relief for all civilians in need.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/HKjZ1d9UE-k'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/HKjZ1d9UE-k'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>A deal in three phases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many obstacles remain, though, with fighting still ongoing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:02 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Bay Area health care workers rallied at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-general-hospital\">San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a> on Monday as part of a nationwide protest against the ongoing war in Gaza, accusing Israel of human rights violations and the deliberate targeting of medical workers and health care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized by the global coalition Doctors Against Genocide, the #SickFromGenocide day of action was meant to be a collective period of mourning and rest for medical workers affected by the events of the Israel-Hamas war and the harm being done to health care facilities, workers and patients in the Gaza Strip. Nearly a hundred people rallied in front of the hospital, playing music and holding banners with messages including “Our Taxes Turn Hospitals into Mass Graves” and “Healthcare Workers Demand: Free Palestine!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Gaza, medical workers are\u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158741\"> struggling\u003c/a> to keep up with high demand as the health care system sits on the brink of collapse, according to a report by United Nations News. Of the 36 hospitals in the region, only 16 remain operational after continual attacks by Israeli forces have left the rest essentially non-functional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals still in operation are also in dire need of medical supplies, food and other essentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re now 450 days plus into this genocide and the destruction of health care infrastructure in Gaza with no end in sight,” said Jess Ghannam, medical staff member and president of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at UCSF. “The complicity of the U.S. government and the health care system here with turning a blind eye to the devastation to the health care infrastructure in Gaza needs to be called out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Israeli forces raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza, forcing patients to temporarily relocate to other, less equipped medical centers. Kamal Adwan had been the last remaining hospital in North Gaza. The hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, was also arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250106_SFGHRally_GC-32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250106_SFGHRally_GC-32.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250106_SFGHRally_GC-32-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250106_SFGHRally_GC-32-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250106_SFGHRally_GC-32-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250106_SFGHRally_GC-32-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250106_SFGHRally_GC-32-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign that reads “STOP GENOCIDE” hangs above a rally of healthcare workers in front of San Francisco General Hospital, after calling out sick, to protest against the war in Gaza, on Jan. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abu Safiya is a pediatric intensive care doctor and a lead physician with MedGlobal, an international nonprofit that provides health care assistance and humanitarian aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Israel Defense Forces, Abu Safiya was arrested and is being questioned about \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LTC_Shoshani/status/1876273397203947857\">potential involvement\u003c/a> with terrorist groups, claims that remain unsubstantiated. His current whereabouts are still unknown, and several international groups including Physicians for Human Rights and the World Health Organization have called for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Leigh Kimberg, a primary care physician at San Francisco General Hospital and a professor of medicine at UCSF, said Abu Safiya worked tirelessly to take care of his patients even while under threat. He was previously detained, questioned and released by Israeli forces, and still continued to serve at the hospital even while injured and mourning his son, who was killed in front of him in an Israeli strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To accuse Palestinian health care workers who are themselves starving because they have access to no food and are providing the care that they were trained to give while under assault of anything other than being dedicated to their sacred oath to serve humanity is deeply offensive,” Kimberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IDF \u003ca href=\"https://www.idf.il/260609\">justified\u003c/a> its attack on the hospital by saying that Hamas militants were hiding at the site. 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The fruit has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Rochios’ supervisors told her to remove the pin because it was making patients feel unsafe, she refused and was placed on administrative leave three times, she said. She is currently still on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wearing the watermelon pin simply means that Palestinians have a right to exist. There’s nothing antisemitic about that,” Rochios said. “Palestinian people deserve to not be genocided. Every human being deserves to not be genocided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide and a pediatric neurologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, #SickFromGenocide is part of a larger movement on the part of health care workers to address the devastation in Gaza and U.S. funding for Israel. 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His current whereabouts are still unknown, and several international groups including Physicians for Human Rights and the World Health Organization have called for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Leigh Kimberg, a primary care physician at San Francisco General Hospital and a professor of medicine at UCSF, said Abu Safiya worked tirelessly to take care of his patients even while under threat. He was previously detained, questioned and released by Israeli forces, and still continued to serve at the hospital even while injured and mourning his son, who was killed in front of him in an Israeli strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To accuse Palestinian health care workers who are themselves starving because they have access to no food and are providing the care that they were trained to give while under assault of anything other than being dedicated to their sacred oath to serve humanity is deeply offensive,” Kimberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IDF \u003ca href=\"https://www.idf.il/260609\">justified\u003c/a> its attack on the hospital by saying that Hamas militants were hiding at the site. 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"content": "\u003cp>Walking through San José’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez, there’s all the sparkle and gleam of the holidays: brightly colored bulbs, shimmering ornaments and the familiar melody of Christmas music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as you snake through the paths of community-decorated Christmas trees and light displays for the city’s annual \u003ca href=\"https://christmasinthepark.com/\">Christmas in the Park\u003c/a>, there are two trees with a deeper message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a non-threatening way to learn about Palestine,” said Dina Saba, a Palestinian Christian resident of San José. She’s standing in front of two Christmas trees she and a group of 15 volunteers decorated to highlight the ongoing violence in Gaza and the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dina Saba adjusts the top of one of the tree she and volunteers decorated to bring attention to ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza at San José’s Christmas in the Park on Dec. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first, dedicated to Gaza, is covered with ornaments showing pictures of smiling, happy children, all of whom have been killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s devastating to see the children’s faces before they were killed,” she said. “They’re just beautiful faces. We wanted to honor them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far away is their second tree, dedicated to the West Bank, with images of the wall between Israel and Palestinian territories, ornaments with Palestinian traditional dress and an olive branch at the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and the volunteers spent a month preparing ornaments and printing out images to adorn the trees to honor those who have died and shine a light on continuing violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that it was actually imperative to recognize, honor and raise awareness on what is actually happening in Gaza — which is a genocide,” Saba said. The United Nations found \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">Israel’s warfare in Gaza\u003c/a> “consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tree decorated with photos and other ornaments to raise awareness of the plight of children in Gaza is one of the many trees decorated by members of the community at this year’s Christmas in the Park celebration at Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San José on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Violence in the region worsened after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led cross-border attack into Southern Israel — killing more than 1,200 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s emotional for us because these are our people and our families,” Saba tears up looking at the tree honoring Gaza. “I have relatives in Gaza that have been killed.”[aside tag=\"israel-hamas,palestine\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Last October, Palestinian Christians in Gaza dedicated services to the victims of a nearby airstrike that damaged an Orthodox church compound \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/22/1207912701/churchgoers-dedicate-prayers-to-palestinian-christians-who-died-in-airstrike\">and killed at least 18 people\u003c/a>. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem plays an important role in Christian faith. It is said to be where Jesus was crucified and laid to rest, then rose again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though normally she celebrates Christmas every year, Saba said this marks the second year in a row she won’t be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saba says it’s mentally and emotionally exhausting to grapple with the idea that U.S. tax dollars, that she contributes to, are “killing her own people,” as she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re devastated. Our people are being annihilated,” she said. “It’s hard for us to celebrate while knowing that our family, our community, our people are being completely slaughtered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trees are on display until January 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Walking through San José’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez, there’s all the sparkle and gleam of the holidays: brightly colored bulbs, shimmering ornaments and the familiar melody of Christmas music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as you snake through the paths of community-decorated Christmas trees and light displays for the city’s annual \u003ca href=\"https://christmasinthepark.com/\">Christmas in the Park\u003c/a>, there are two trees with a deeper message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a non-threatening way to learn about Palestine,” said Dina Saba, a Palestinian Christian resident of San José. She’s standing in front of two Christmas trees she and a group of 15 volunteers decorated to highlight the ongoing violence in Gaza and the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/05_IMG_2263-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dina Saba adjusts the top of one of the tree she and volunteers decorated to bring attention to ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza at San José’s Christmas in the Park on Dec. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first, dedicated to Gaza, is covered with ornaments showing pictures of smiling, happy children, all of whom have been killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s devastating to see the children’s faces before they were killed,” she said. “They’re just beautiful faces. We wanted to honor them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far away is their second tree, dedicated to the West Bank, with images of the wall between Israel and Palestinian territories, ornaments with Palestinian traditional dress and an olive branch at the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and the volunteers spent a month preparing ornaments and printing out images to adorn the trees to honor those who have died and shine a light on continuing violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that it was actually imperative to recognize, honor and raise awareness on what is actually happening in Gaza — which is a genocide,” Saba said. The United Nations found \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">Israel’s warfare in Gaza\u003c/a> “consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tree decorated with photos and other ornaments to raise awareness of the plight of children in Gaza is one of the many trees decorated by members of the community at this year’s Christmas in the Park celebration at Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San José on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. 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"content": "\u003cp>In stark contrast to the spring, when hundreds of students were arrested and suspended for violating campus policies,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001778/students-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-tread-a-fine-line-as-fall-semester-begins-at-bay-area-universities\"> far fewer participated in protests this fall\u003c/a>. Campuses had warned students they would be enforcing these policies much more strictly than they had in the spring when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">rallies and pro-Palestinian encampments protesting the Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a> grew unchecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As protests emerged this semester,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005030/sfpd-deployed-to-8-campus-protests-including-2-major-incidents-outside-the-bay-area\"> campus police departments quashed\u003c/a> any that broke the rules. In all, at least six students have been arrested and 12 have been suspended at universities around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout October, which marked one year since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000859/uc-system-implements-new-rules-on-protests-encampments\">campuses reacted swiftly to violations of protest rules\u003c/a> — known on campuses as time, place and manner policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001778/students-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-tread-a-fine-line-as-fall-semester-begins-at-bay-area-universities\">some rallies and protests\u003c/a>, no campus has seen the mass demonstrations, or encampments, that swept across California campuses last spring. That’s when, according to a CalMatters analysis, around 560 people, largely students and faculty, faced discipline or arrests. Some student protesters erected tents and other structures that remained on campus for several days or, in some cases, multiple weeks before universities intervened. In light of legal actions and pressure from lawmakers, campus administrators are tightening enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think students are still definitely riled up and ready to have their voice heard,” said Aditi Hariharan, president of the University of California Student Association. “Whenever they take steps to share their voice, I think the administration takes an opposing step and is trying to push them back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some students and faculty are still facing charges related to last academic year’s demonstrations. And now, some who were arrested \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003855/uc-santa-cruz-students-professor-sue-over-campus-bans-after-pro-palestinian-protest\">are suing their campuses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New year brings emphasis on enforcing protest policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many of today’s protest policies were in place prior to last spring, campus administrators showed discretion in the past over when or whether to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universities’ varied approaches to dealing with the encampments led state lawmakers and system administrators to seek uniform enforcement of policies governing where and how students can protest. Signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, SB 1287 requires the University of California and California State University systems to update their policies and create training to educate students on “what constitutes violent, harassing, intimidating, or discriminatory conduct that creates a hostile environment on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when dealing with divisive issues, all student voices have the right to be heard, and none should be silenced,” said now-former state Sen. 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Michael Drake, the UC president, wrote a letter to the 10 UC campuses outlining policies on free speech and protests, including a complete ban on camping and erecting encampments, blocking campus facilities, and refusing to identify oneself. The letter largely banned actions already enshrined in laws and campus policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UCLA, university police officers arrested four people on Nov. 19 during a protest the campus’ Students for Justice in Palestine organization announced as a “Nationwide Student Strike.” According to acting UCLA Chief of Police Scott Scheffler, the protesters violated time, place and manner policies after they attempted to block access to the campus walkway through Bruin Plaza. This case is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheffler is the second acting chief at UCLA since the former chief, John Thomas, was reassigned in May following criticisms of his handling of the spring protests on campus. The UCLA Police Department announced Dec. 10 was Thomas’ last day with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, at UCLA, one person was arrested Oct. 22 for failing to disperse during a student rally of about 40 people. The campus police department posted on X that the rally violated the school’s protest policies against erecting unauthorized structures on campus.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='palestine']At UC Santa Cruz, police arrested one student who was using a megaphone during a demonstration on Oct. 7, according to an eyewitness who spoke to LookOut Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office public arrest reports show one person was arrested on the Santa Cruz campus for obstruction of a public officer and battery without injury that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no arrests were made, Pomona College has suspended 12 students for the remainder of the 2024–25 academic year following an Oct. 7 demonstration in which they entered, damaged and vandalized a restricted building, according to the student newspaper. The college also banned dozens of students from the four other campuses of the Claremont Colleges, a consortium that includes Pomona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private colleges have implemented their own policy changes. Pomona College now requires students and faculty to swipe their ID cards to enter academic buildings. Since last semester, students and visitors entering USC are also required to show a school or photo ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some students are still facing charges from last year’s protests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Few charges have been filed after UCLA’s encampment made headlines in April when counterprotesters led an attack on encampment protesters while law enforcement did not intervene for several hours. The following day, 254 people were arrested on charges related to the protest encampment. In October, two additional people were also arrested for participating in the counter-protester violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office is pursuing three felony cases against individuals arrested at UCLA in relation to violence during last spring’s protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city attorney’s office is reviewing 93 misdemeanor cases from USC and 210 from UCLA, according to information it provided to CalMatters last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilyan Zwirzina, a junior at Cal Poly Humboldt, was among the students arrested in the early morning of April 30 following protesters occupying a campus building and ignoring orders to disperse from the university. Law enforcement took her to Humboldt County Correctional Facility, where she faced four misdemeanor charges, including resisting arrest. Zwirzina thought she’d have to cancel her study abroad semester, which conflicted with the court date she was given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was pretty frustrated and kind of freaked out,” Zwirzina said. Authorities dropped the charges against her in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protesters demand police officers go home during a protest outside of Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata on April 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office didn’t pursue charges against 27 of the 39 people arrested, citing insufficient evidence. The 12 remaining cases were referred to the Cal Poly Humboldt Police Department for investigation. Those cases remain under investigation, according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 13 people, including students, arrested at Stanford University in June, the Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen has not pressed charges as of Nov. 20, according to information his office provided CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere across the state, some district attorneys are pursuing misdemeanor and felony charges against student protesters. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is pursuing misdemeanor charges against 50 people, including two UCI professors, a teaching assistant, and 26 students, stemming from a protest at UC Irvine on Oct. 22, 2023. 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James Gutierrez, the attorney representing the arrested students, said he asked that the college drop charges against its students, citing their right to protest the use of paid tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are righteously demanding that their colleges, the ones they pay tuition to and housing fees and pour a lot of money into, that that university or college stop investing in companies that are directly supporting this genocide and indirectly supporting it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Students fight back against campus protest policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As administrators face the challenge of applying protest policies more uniformly and swiftly, the truer test of California public higher education institutions’ protest rules will be playing out in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one already resolved case, UC leadership agreed in August to comply with a court order requiring the campus to end programs or events that exclude Jewish students. A federal judge ruled some Jewish students in support of Israel who were blocked from entering the encampment had their religious liberties violated — though some Jewish students did participate in UCLA’s protest encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students have filed at least two lawsuits against their campuses and the UC system for violating their rights while ending student encampments last spring. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In stark contrast to the spring, when hundreds of students were arrested and suspended for violating campus policies,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001778/students-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-tread-a-fine-line-as-fall-semester-begins-at-bay-area-universities\"> far fewer participated in protests this fall\u003c/a>. Campuses had warned students they would be enforcing these policies much more strictly than they had in the spring when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">rallies and pro-Palestinian encampments protesting the Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a> grew unchecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As protests emerged this semester,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005030/sfpd-deployed-to-8-campus-protests-including-2-major-incidents-outside-the-bay-area\"> campus police departments quashed\u003c/a> any that broke the rules. In all, at least six students have been arrested and 12 have been suspended at universities around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout October, which marked one year since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000859/uc-system-implements-new-rules-on-protests-encampments\">campuses reacted swiftly to violations of protest rules\u003c/a> — known on campuses as time, place and manner policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001778/students-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-tread-a-fine-line-as-fall-semester-begins-at-bay-area-universities\">some rallies and protests\u003c/a>, no campus has seen the mass demonstrations, or encampments, that swept across California campuses last spring. That’s when, according to a CalMatters analysis, around 560 people, largely students and faculty, faced discipline or arrests. Some student protesters erected tents and other structures that remained on campus for several days or, in some cases, multiple weeks before universities intervened. In light of legal actions and pressure from lawmakers, campus administrators are tightening enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think students are still definitely riled up and ready to have their voice heard,” said Aditi Hariharan, president of the University of California Student Association. “Whenever they take steps to share their voice, I think the administration takes an opposing step and is trying to push them back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some students and faculty are still facing charges related to last academic year’s demonstrations. And now, some who were arrested \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003855/uc-santa-cruz-students-professor-sue-over-campus-bans-after-pro-palestinian-protest\">are suing their campuses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New year brings emphasis on enforcing protest policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many of today’s protest policies were in place prior to last spring, campus administrators showed discretion in the past over when or whether to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universities’ varied approaches to dealing with the encampments led state lawmakers and system administrators to seek uniform enforcement of policies governing where and how students can protest. Signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, SB 1287 requires the University of California and California State University systems to update their policies and create training to educate students on “what constitutes violent, harassing, intimidating, or discriminatory conduct that creates a hostile environment on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when dealing with divisive issues, all student voices have the right to be heard, and none should be silenced,” said now-former state Sen. Steve Glazer, an Orinda Democrat, speaking in support of the bill in an Assembly judiciary committee hearing. “I believe this legislation will restore an environment of civil discourse on our campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/050124_UCLA-Evening-Protest-TS_CM_07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/050124_UCLA-Evening-Protest-TS_CM_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/050124_UCLA-Evening-Protest-TS_CM_07.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/050124_UCLA-Evening-Protest-TS_CM_07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/050124_UCLA-Evening-Protest-TS_CM_07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/050124_UCLA-Evening-Protest-TS_CM_07-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian student protesters gather at both sides of the entrance of a solidarity encampment at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>( Ted Soqui/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the new law, the leadership of both the UC and Cal State systems communicated the need for consistent time, place and manner policies for the start of the academic year. Michael Drake, the UC president, wrote a letter to the 10 UC campuses outlining policies on free speech and protests, including a complete ban on camping and erecting encampments, blocking campus facilities, and refusing to identify oneself. The letter largely banned actions already enshrined in laws and campus policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UCLA, university police officers arrested four people on Nov. 19 during a protest the campus’ Students for Justice in Palestine organization announced as a “Nationwide Student Strike.” According to acting UCLA Chief of Police Scott Scheffler, the protesters violated time, place and manner policies after they attempted to block access to the campus walkway through Bruin Plaza. This case is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheffler is the second acting chief at UCLA since the former chief, John Thomas, was reassigned in May following criticisms of his handling of the spring protests on campus. The UCLA Police Department announced Dec. 10 was Thomas’ last day with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, at UCLA, one person was arrested Oct. 22 for failing to disperse during a student rally of about 40 people. The campus police department posted on X that the rally violated the school’s protest policies against erecting unauthorized structures on campus.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At UC Santa Cruz, police arrested one student who was using a megaphone during a demonstration on Oct. 7, according to an eyewitness who spoke to LookOut Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office public arrest reports show one person was arrested on the Santa Cruz campus for obstruction of a public officer and battery without injury that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no arrests were made, Pomona College has suspended 12 students for the remainder of the 2024–25 academic year following an Oct. 7 demonstration in which they entered, damaged and vandalized a restricted building, according to the student newspaper. The college also banned dozens of students from the four other campuses of the Claremont Colleges, a consortium that includes Pomona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private colleges have implemented their own policy changes. Pomona College now requires students and faculty to swipe their ID cards to enter academic buildings. Since last semester, students and visitors entering USC are also required to show a school or photo ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some students are still facing charges from last year’s protests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Few charges have been filed after UCLA’s encampment made headlines in April when counterprotesters led an attack on encampment protesters while law enforcement did not intervene for several hours. The following day, 254 people were arrested on charges related to the protest encampment. In October, two additional people were also arrested for participating in the counter-protester violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office is pursuing three felony cases against individuals arrested at UCLA in relation to violence during last spring’s protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city attorney’s office is reviewing 93 misdemeanor cases from USC and 210 from UCLA, according to information it provided to CalMatters last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilyan Zwirzina, a junior at Cal Poly Humboldt, was among the students arrested in the early morning of April 30 following protesters occupying a campus building and ignoring orders to disperse from the university. Law enforcement took her to Humboldt County Correctional Facility, where she faced four misdemeanor charges, including resisting arrest. Zwirzina thought she’d have to cancel her study abroad semester, which conflicted with the court date she was given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was pretty frustrated and kind of freaked out,” Zwirzina said. Authorities dropped the charges against her in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/042224_CalPoly-Gaza_MM_CM_03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protesters demand police officers go home during a protest outside of Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata on April 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office didn’t pursue charges against 27 of the 39 people arrested, citing insufficient evidence. The 12 remaining cases were referred to the Cal Poly Humboldt Police Department for investigation. Those cases remain under investigation, according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 13 people, including students, arrested at Stanford University in June, the Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen has not pressed charges as of Nov. 20, according to information his office provided CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere across the state, some district attorneys are pursuing misdemeanor and felony charges against student protesters. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is pursuing misdemeanor charges against 50 people, including two UCI professors, a teaching assistant, and 26 students, stemming from a protest at UC Irvine on Oct. 22, 2023. Charges include failure to disperse, resisting arrest and vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pomona College, 19 students were arrested on April 5 on charges of trespassing after some protesters entered and refused to leave an administrative building. Students arrested either had their cases dismissed or have accepted community service in lieu of further legal action. James Gutierrez, the attorney representing the arrested students, said he asked that the college drop charges against its students, citing their right to protest the use of paid tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are righteously demanding that their colleges, the ones they pay tuition to and housing fees and pour a lot of money into, that that university or college stop investing in companies that are directly supporting this genocide and indirectly supporting it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Students fight back against campus protest policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As administrators face the challenge of applying protest policies more uniformly and swiftly, the truer test of California public higher education institutions’ protest rules will be playing out in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one already resolved case, UC leadership agreed in August to comply with a court order requiring the campus to end programs or events that exclude Jewish students. A federal judge ruled some Jewish students in support of Israel who were blocked from entering the encampment had their religious liberties violated — though some Jewish students did participate in UCLA’s protest encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students have filed at least two lawsuits against their campuses and the UC system for violating their rights while ending student encampments last spring. In September, ACLU NorCal filed suits against the UC and UC Santa Cruz for not providing students due process when they immediately barred arrested students from returning to campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students should have gotten a hearing, an opportunity to defend themselves or to explain themselves, and the school would have shown evidence of why they created a risk of disturbance on campus,” Chessie Thacher, senior staff attorney at ACLU of Northern California, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz spokesperson Scott Hernandez-Jason said the university “appreciates the court’s careful deliberation” and that the university “is committed to upholding the right to free expression while also protecting the safety of its campus community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, ACLU SoCal filed lawsuits on behalf of two students and two faculty members against the UC and UCLA, alleging the actions the university took to break down the encampment violated their free speech rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez told CalMatters via email that the university would respond in court and that UCLA “fully supports community members expressing their First Amendment rights in ways that do not violate the law, our policies, jeopardize community safety, or disrupt the functioning of the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The encampment that arose on campus this spring became a focal point for violence, a disruption to campus, and was in violation of the law,” Vazquez said in the email statement. “These conditions necessitated its removal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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