A pro-Palestine rally is scheduled to be held in downtown Nashville on Wednesday, the organization Palestine Hurra Collective Nashville announced on social media.
Wednesday’s “May Day Rally and March” will be held at 5:30 p.m. at Centennial Park.
Activists at the rally will reportedly advocate for the “liberation of all oppressed peoples,” according to Palestine Hurra Collective Nashville.
“Nashville — workers, students, everyone all out for Palestine and for the liberation of all oppressed peoples,” the pro-Palestine group wrote in an Instagram post. “Join us on May Day as we aim to build intergenerational solidarity across our communities and show up for the students who are steadfastly protesting against their university that is funding this genocide. As workers & students, when we are united, we cannot be defeated!”
The group urged those planning on attending Wednesday’s rally to “mask up” and bring drums, flags, and wear keffiyehs.
“The more they try to silence us, the louder we will be,” the group said. “We ask our community members to continue showing up with us as we take principled, difficult, but necessary stances to push for collective liberation. When we move together as one, we can push the boundaries of what anyone thought was possible.
Wednesday’s rally comes as Vanderbilt University in Nashville has allowed a pro-Palestine encampment to be occupied on campus in front of Kirkland Hall for over a month.
The Vanderbilt Divest Coalition (VDC) marked 30 days of its Palestine Solidarity Encampment on Friday.
The encampment began on the night 27 students staged a pro-Palestine sit-in event at Kirkland Hall, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star.
“VDC marks 30 days of our Palestine Solidarity Encampment. What began on the night of the Kirkland 27’s sit-in as support for student protestors has grown into a prominent and continuous protest site to hold Vanderbilt accountable for their complicity in genocide. This encampment is dedicated to the liberation of Palestine, and we need your support to continue our push for Vanderbilt to disclose and divest from death,” VDC said in an Instagram post.
The encampment is being supplied by donations collected and delivered by groups including Palestine Hurra Collective Nashville.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Those Students & Professors at Vandy who are here on VISAS should be deported. The useful idiots as Saul Alinsky would call them, are so easily radicalized bcthey are truly ignorant. HAMAS is evil & the Palestinians believe all Jews should die. Israel was attacked by Hamas terrorists in the most Barbaric way on Oct 7, 2023. They tortured & mudered the most vulnerable. This was an act of war. Israel has every right to destroy these monsters. Most Palestinians believe what the HAMAS monsters did was fine. They took many innocents as Hostages bc they are Cowards, who don’t want Israel to respond. Biden & his Communist staff could put pressure on HAMAS to release the Hostages. Some are American citizens. Biden doesn’t care nor does he support our only Ally in the Middle East. The only Democracy in the Middle East.
The neighboring Arab countries will not accept any Palestinians as refugees bc they are as bad as HAMAS. The Hamas leadership live in Mansions in Qatar. While they force Palestinians to live like slaves. The money that Biden sends to HAMAS/Palestinians has been used to build tunnels into Usrael for the purpose of murdering Jews. Not to make life better for Palestinians. They a tally pay Palestinians who murder Jews. They force women who are raped to marry their rapist. Women are treated horribly. It’s a real hell hole.
BIDEN wants to bring hundreds of thousand Palestinians to America. WE DONT WANT THEM HERE BC THEY WILL NOT ASSIMILATE. Just as the Muslims in Michigan & Minnesota will not assimilate. They hate America. They want to bring a Caliphate to America. They chant DEATH TO AMERICA. THEY CALL ISRAEL THE LITTLE SATAN. & AMERICA THE BIG SATAN.
WE DONT WANT THEM HERE. THEY ARE DANGEROUS.
Those Rich brats at Vandy need to take their asses to GAZA for Spring break. Let’s see how well they are received.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL. I HOPE THEY ELIMINATE THE THREAT FROM THESE HEATHENS.
Israel could take the GAZA STRIP & TURN IT INTO A thriving Tourist Destination. Israel gave up the territory IN GAZA in an effort at peace. But HANAS/ IRAN do not want peace. To the winner belongs the Spoils.
Israel needs to take the Land ” from the River to the Sea”
BACK & KEEP IT.
This once conspired coalition has formed and is fully operational:
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez — aka Carlos the Jackal — communist convert to Islam, in his 2003 book, “Revolutionary Islam” called on “all revolutionaries, including those of the left, even atheists,” to accept the leadership of Islamists:
“Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States.”
Communism and Hamas, an Islamic Jihadists terrorist group, are both evil murdering systems of slavery.
“We must hate. Hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.”—Vladimir Lenin
And Biden wants to import more “refugees” to cause more discord. This is disgusting.
Communists just co-opting the “useful idiots” in the Pro-Hamas element to help bolster their numbers. MNPD should watch them like a hawk and act decisively if they break the law.
Tennessean won’t report on this and students camping at Vandy……one rule for some, one rule for others……this state and city need better leaders….
I wonder which buildings they’ll destroy. A rally? That’s a joke, right?
If these people are so much in support of Hamas why not go there and really let your voice be heard?? This is just a fake protest in order to get attention and cause chaos. If they really were behind Hamas they would go over there and do something. America has no right getting involved in the issues of every country. How many of these kids really know the history of that region. Those that are here from the Middle East need to be returned to their homeland. They obviously are not here because they love America. They are filled with indoctrination and hate for Jews which further illustrates they are not about saving the oppressed because they are willing to be oppressors themselves. I wonder where they are going to pick up their checks from Soros and the Rockefeller foundation?? With the Biden administration opening our border to militants will cause more of this and that is exactly what they want. Chaos in order to rob more of our freedoms.
where are our leaders???? Tennessee and especially Nashville deserve better…..we are again one step away from a riot here…..no leadership……nothing…..
if they feel so strongly why do they hide under masks
I think every one of these students and other protestors should watch some of the videos of the October 7th Hamas attack. They should especially see the brutal rape of a young women who had her tits cut off and was made to watch as the men tossed them around to each other like toys, all while the man penetrating her forcefully eventually shot her in the head as he came inside her.
If they can still call for the “liberation” of Palestine and death to Israel and all Jews at that point, then they are completely lost. My hope, however, is that upon actually seeing the truth then all this protest nonsense would stop.