Here in New York, students and alumni of Columbia University held a demonstration honoring the second anniversary of campus protests demanding administrators divest from companies linked to Israel. The protests saw students take over a Columbia building and rename it “Hind’s Hall” in honor of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old girl murdered by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. This is Maryam Alwan, an alumna of Columbia arrested two years ago in the police raid that ended the student occupation.

Maryam Alwan: “We wanted to do it on the anniversary of the occupation of Hind’s Hall in order to show that the movement persists and that we retain the institutional memory of the violence that happened that day, of the way that the student body came together to demand divestment at that time. It still echoes today. Even though there has been repression, there has been a massive crackdown on freedom of speech at Columbia, we are here to show that we won’t be silenced and that we still remember everything that happened.”