Gaza

This is a photo of a person holding a sign far above their head. Their face cannot be seen, only their arms reaching into the sky. Their sign has a Palestinian flag on it, and reads, “Ceasefire now.”
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SFU community urges university to support Palestine

Peak Web November 28, 2023

Editor's Note: Corrections have been made to this article: the Gaza in Context event happened on October 20, rather than November 10, as previously written. The academic freedom event referenced happened on November 10. By: Anonymous Student Content warning: mentions of genocide and death.  Members of the SFU community have been urging the university administration and Board of Governors to join the growing calls for a ceasefire in Palestine. SFU students have been calling for the university’s support for students, staff, and faculty impacted by the Israeli siege on Palestine and rising Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes (especially among anti-Zionist…

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Gaza marked on a map
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Media to uplift Palestinian narratives

Peak Web November 20, 2023

By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of genocide, violence, and war. Editor’s note: this article was updated on November 24, 2023, to re-word instances of naming the Palestinian genocide a “conflict.” The word “conflict” assigns equal blame to…

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This is a photo of a man standing above a city in Palestine, on a large hill. He is waving a Palestinian flag, red green, and black.
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Teach-in event at SFU sheds light on Gaza crisis

Peak Web November 7, 2023

By: Sude Guvendik, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of violence and genocide. In an effort to provide historical, legal, and humanitarian context to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS) at SFU co-organized an online…

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