In 2025, students around the world came together to challenge their schools' complicity in the Gaza genocide. Despite heavy repression, they won major victories, including divestment and commitments to cut ties with Israeli institutions.
Beginning amid Israel’s scholasticide and genocide of Palestinians—still ongoing—the sustained global student uprising for Palestinian liberation, or the Student Intifada, has energized, nay radicalized, an entire generation of politically engaged youth and taught them what it means to be counted.
Since 2023, students have reckoned with suspensions, evictions, and expulsions; police and rogue violence; arrests and deportations; and general harassment. But students’ tireless, principled organizing secured academic boycotts, divestment, and institutional severances. Every material win—spurred by powerful symbolic actions, backed by painstaking research—propels us closer to something resembling justice for Palestinians.
If in 2024 students mobilized en masse internationally in solidarity with Palestinians and their cause for liberation—with actions from Mexico City to Prague, Pondicherry to São Paulo, Wroclaw to Tokyo, Sydney to Santa Cruz—then 2025 student organizing took root and bloomed, with all the struggles, achievements, and setbacks that entail.
Seeing global patterns of student action makes more comprehensive what can feel like distant, horrific geopolitics and, simultaneously, local institution-level activism. But looking back on 2025 reveals the points of connection and unity of thought and action that have existed between students, young people, and much of the general public.
Students everywhere heard history’s urgent call. They answered it resolutely. Here’s how students organized, struggled, and ultimately won in 2025—and what’s next. (more...)
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