NYU LAW STUDENT JOB OFFER RESCINDED FOR STANDING WITH PALESTINE
December 16, 2023“As suppression grows, students become more organised and energised.”
NYU law student Ryna Workman had a job offer rescinded for expressing solidarity with Palestinians, but rather than discouraging, it has fueled Ryna’s support for the cause.
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Ryna Workman: I’m not naive to the situation that we have here in the U.S., You know, our government funds Israel.
We fund the military occupation, we fund their missiles. But I thought that as a student, because we are encouraged to have this discourse and to talk about these issues, I didn’t foresee me sending a message to the law school community where we have human rights fellowships to become such national news.
Tv host: Ryna Workman released a statement saying in part, Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life, expressing, “unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians and their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination”.
Ryna Workman: I think that as a black person who has seen the violence from police officers against people in my community, it deeply concerns me that there is such a tangible link between the violence we’re seeing in Palestine and the violence I see in the U.S.
I think a lot about how the police in America work very closely with the Israeli occupation forces. We’re seeing in Atlanta this program called GILEE, which is an exchange program for police officers to learn and train with IOF and then bring those same tactics back here. And then I also think as a black person, I think really deeply about resistance and what exactly that looks like.
I would not be here if not for the resistance of my ancestors. And we’re also organizing around a free Palestine, so that Palestinians’ have the right to return and freedom in their land. We are seeing people get more educated and want to do something about this issue.
And so it’s really important that we keep that energy up so that even if there is a ceasefire, we do see a free Palestine within our lifetime. But then there’s also this other fight that we’re fighting against, the breaches of our First Amendment rights and the suppression of voices, both from students and just from, you know, other community members.
And it’s interesting because it’s not just our voices, right? We’re being told that we can’t protest. We’re seeing incredible police presence at these civic actions.
I think there’s the very public suppression we’re seeing, for example, at Columbia University, where they’ve suspended the students’ protests for Justice in Palestine group and the group Jewish Voices for Peace. We’re seeing things like people losing their jobs like me and not being offered any support by the academic institutions they go to.
And so I think as we’re seeing the suppression, students are just getting more organized and more energized and will continue to speak up for Palestinians because we know that we’re in the right here. At the end of the day, if they can do these atrocities across the world, there is nothing stopping them from doing those same atrocities here. We are not freeing Palestine. Palestine is freeing us.
