Leora Johnson and Salimah Khoja*
Editors-in-Chief, CUNY Law Review
It has been a devastating few months for all human beings invested in collective justice, liberation, and freedom–from Palestine and Israel, to our very own neighborhoods across the U.S. and the world.
These moments simultaneously prompt our sustained solidarity with Palestinian life and liberation in the face of occupation, distinct from any endorsement of Hamas’s attacks on October 7, 2023; grief and outrage over the killing of more than 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapping of 240 more in those attacks; further grief and outrage over Israel’s military assault in Gaza and recently in the West Bank, killing more than 23,000 Palestinian people, with many more presumed dead, injuring over 59,000 more, and displacing over 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million at grave risk of genocide; grief and outrage at the upsurge of antisemitic and Islamophobic violence and rhetoric across the world; and grief through a continued reckoning with more than 75 years of historical and political context.