COLLECTIVE STUDENT LETTER TO DREW UNIVERSITY – FEB 2024

AJP, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Social Responsibility Committee (SRC) held a letter delivery on February 2, 2024 for collective letters from students and alumni about the ongoing crisis in Palestine accompanied by fresh flowers dedicated to different sectors of the Palestinian community and words from students and alumni on how institutions have a critical responsibility to speak up against genocide. Despite the gravity of the letters’ contents, emotions exhibited by its community, and global events since receiving the letters, Drew’s administration has maintained complete silence on Palestine.

SJP has made the following demands:

1. Drew University must commit to protecting its Palestinian students and advocates exercising their political rights 
2. Drew University must introduce a new course offering on Palestine under the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, giving teaching preference to professors who are Palestinian or experts in settler-colonialism studies. 
3. Drew University must review its university investments, and if funds are invested in Israeli bonds and corporations supporting settler-colonialism, apartheid, and genocide, we demand divestment. 
4. Drew University must release a statement from the office of the President acknowledging the ongoing genocide against Palestinians, its impact on the Palestinian community at our University, and joining the international community in their call for a ceasefire and justice for the Palestinian people and peace for all human beings around the world.