• #StudentIntifada Submission Form

  • Thawra ثورة, the blog for the Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism, invites writing from students (including recent grads), faculty, staff, and community members studying and reflecting on campus organizing post-October 7, 2023. Student submissions, both from individuals and from student organizations, are particularly encouraged.

    This submission form includes prompts to help generate essays that are aligned with the blog’s format. The form includes some background questions about your college/university, organizing principles and tactics, forms of repression, etcetera as well as some questions for reflection. You may write answers in the form itself or upload a document at the end. You may save your progress in the form and return to it later.

    Please submit your responses to the form by October 1, 2025.

    Have questions or need more information?

    Email us at: journal@criticalzionismstudies.org

    After reviewing the submissions, the JCSZ Editorial Collective will determine whether to publish relevant submissions in full or in part and will communicate publication decisions to the contributors.

  • About the Author:

     
  • About your college/university

    • Name & location of your college/university
    • What is/was your role there? (i.e. student, faculty, staff, student org, community member)
    • How would you describe the demographics of the student body?
    • How would you describe the college/university’s position in the world of higher ed? (public/private, expensive/affordable, elite/non-elite, etc.?)
  • About campus organizing

    • What was the relationship to Palestine or other organizing on this campus before October 2023?
    • How did organizing change after October 2023, if at all?
    • What was productive and inspiring about organizing on your campus? What were some problems with it?
    • What were your demands, if any? What was the rationale for having (or not having) particular demands?
  • Encampments and protests

    • If there was an encampment on your campus, when did it start and end?
    • What was it like? How did it end?
    • If no encampment happened on your campus, was there a reason why not?
    • What other forms of protest or organizing took place on campus? What was it like?
  • Research and political education

    • If you did research to support divestment demands, were you successful in finding details of your university’s investments in weapons/genocide?
    • If you worked to educate your campus about those investments, how did you go about it? Was it successful?
  • Context and stakes

    • How did the movement on your campus think about its relationship to Palestine and Palestinians on the ground?
    • How did your campus organizing relate to protests across the US/globally?
    • What is the current state of Palestine solidarity organizing on your campus?
  • Reflections and lessons

    • What kinds of obstacles did you encounter?
    • What did you accomplish?
    • How did organizers successfully resist and face repression?
    • Were there negative consequences or fallout as a result of the movement and/or its repression?
    • What are your takeaways from the experience?
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