On the 5th of February, University of S Florida’s Tampa campus SDS chapter held a protest demanding the university divest from Israeli genocide. Protesters also demanded the US stop bombing Yemen and stop sending military aid to Israel.

The protest was small but USF-Tampa has become notorious for police violence against protesters. Notably, this was where the Tampa 5 case originated in a storm of police brutality. It takes courage to sail into the teeth of such a storm, to stand forth against real risk to say NO to genocide. This goes doubly so with all of the proposals for charging out of state tuition, reporting students to Homeland Security, and possibly more spewing from the sewer that is DeathSantis’s mouth and pen.

Also note that this is just one of a great many protests being held nationally by SDS as part of a Feb 5-11 week of action for Palestine. National demands are “Stand with Palestine, Hands off Yemen, End US Aid to Israel.” This is but the first of many such protests