CUNY for Palestine is a horizontally structured organization of students and workers at the City University of New York (CUNY), along with CUNY alumni and members of the broader community, that works in solidarity with the Palestinian people and supports their right to self-determination and national liberation, from the river to the sea. We are committed to ending Israel’s occupation and colonization of Palestine and all surrounding lands, dismantling of the Apartheid Wall, and the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and properties. We understand that US economic, military and political support for Israel stems from the need of the ruling class to maintain imperial domination in an area of enormous geostrategic significance via a colonial outpost. Given this support, the US is a direct actor in the zionist settler colonial project and its violence. We recognize that CUNY, a public institution imbricated in colonial, racial capitalist, and imperialist systems of power, is not just a passive spectator to US-backed zionist settler colonization of Palestine. Through its investments in companies that support Israel, as well as exchange programs with Israeli universities and other  institutional ties, it is a material contributor to Israel’s settler colonial project, and complicit in its violent theft of the lives, livelihoods, land, and natural resources of the Palestinian people. As members of the CUNY community, we demand that CUNY immediately end our complicity in the settler colonial violence and dispossession that the Palestinian people have been subjected to for over 100 years.