UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine Session | May 10, 2025

Streamed live on May 10, 2025Second Session of the UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine, 5/10/2025. The UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine follows on a year of escalating protest across all University of California campuses against the unceasing Israeli genocide in occupied Palestine and beyond. Over the past year, we have borne witness as UC leadership failed to condemn genocide or reckon with the implications of its investment, research, and donor complicity in the destruction and devastation of the Palestinian people. Instead, we have seen UC leaders normalize the Israeli state and defend Zionism while restricting speech and employing militarized police power, exclusion orders, and other modes of repression against students, faculty, and community members for speaking out against the genocide. The erosion of any semblance of academic freedom and shared governance has not escaped us. We will no longer merely protest leaders who have made clear that they are willing to attack their own community rather than acknowledge their demands for justice. Instead, we have gathered as a people’s tribunal to hold the University of California accountable for complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and the ongoing Nakba (“catastrophe”).

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• What is a People’s Tribunal?

People’s tribunals are forums of justice that critique cultures of impunity while building toward better worlds. They enable social justice movements and organizations to speak truth to power by charging those in positions of power with crimes. People’s tribunals serve as an invaluable arena of evidence-gathering that bear the potential of shifting dominant narratives. By furnishing needed political education on institutional and other forms of reactionary and counterrevolutionary violence, they provoke people to act in solidarity against egregious injustice. Join us in holding the UC accountable.