“We are proud to announce that as a result of our 4-day encampment, the Rutgers - New Brunswick administration has committed to implementing eight of our demands listed below. This is a vigorous battle that has spanned years. In just this academic year, we have been suspended for our organizing and remain on probation, passed a landslide divestment resolution across our three campuses, and passed a precedent-setting definition of anti-Palestinian racism. Moreover, this recent encampment was our second such effort in the past three weeks. Though we forced the University to cancel 28 finals and were ready to face arrest and brutalization, because of our recent organizing efforts and the student efforts which preceded us, we were able to achieve these goals while protecting our student community from threats of abuse, arrest, suspension, and expulsion by the administration.”

RUTGERS - NEW BRUNSWICK ACCEPTED EIGHT OF OF OUR TEN DEMANDS TO:

1. Accept at least 10 displaced Gazan students to study at Rutgers University on scholarship.

2. Provide resources for Palestinian and Arab students in the form of an Arab Cultural Center.

3. Establish a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a long-term educational and collaboration partnership with Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine - in accordance with precedent set by William Paterson University.

4. Name "Palestine" and "Palestinians" in all future communications related to Israeli aggressions in Palestine (as opposed to "Middle East" "Gaza region" etc.), and 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 advocating for a ceasefire.

5. Hire senior administrators with cultural competency and knowledge about Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia.

6. Hire additional professors specializing in Palestine studies and Middle East studies and establish a path to departmentalization for Middle East studies.

7. Display the flags of occupied peoples - including but not limited to Palestinians, Kurds, and Kashmiris - in all areas displaying international flags.

8. Provide amnesty for all students, student groups, faculty, and staff penalized for exercising their First Amendment right to protest Rutgers University's support for Israeli human rights violations, and voice support for faculty and staff who have been publicly targeted for exercising their academic freedom.