https://resilience.jciembroniewicz.com/pins 2025-06-05T19:40:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://resilience.jciembroniewicz.com/title-text 2025-06-05T19:40:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://resilience.jciembroniewicz.com/title-page 2025-06-05T19:40:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2351849584376390017595299607572/240425_Ciembroniewicz_Encampment_01.JPG <div style="text-align: center">The University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment, eventually named Mukhayyam Sumud (Camp Resilience), on Eastman Quadrangle, on April 25, 2024, in Rochester, NY.<br /> <span class="mobile-title"></span> <br /> </div> https://resilience.jciembroniewicz.com 2025-06-06T16:57:01+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2177154423264699563722432853012/JMC_Dec17Edit_001.JPG Sarah Aljitawi stands on Eastman Quadrangle in front of Rush Rhees Library, on Feb. 20, 2025, in Rochester, NY. Eastman Quadrangle was the site of the University of Rochester (UR) pro-Palestine encampment, which remained in place until it was forcibly removed by UR Department of Public Safety personnel on May 14, 2024. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2284042771416897540529636258836/240514_JMC_Capstone_0165.jpg People at the University of Rochester walk the patch of grass on Eastman Quadrangle where the pro-Palestine encampment stood earlier that day, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY.  The encampment was present on campus for 22 days.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2284065060636208547854563423252/250320_JMC_Capstone_375.JPG Karam Aldahleh, a Palestinian-American junior at UR, hugs a friend after she speaks to the crowd during a protest on Wilson Quadrangle demanding the protection of First Amendment rights on college campuses, on March 20, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2284123918016888490341070287892/250221_JMC_Capstone_1200.JPG Karam Aldahleh, left, Sarah Aljitawi, and Saafa Tahboub, right, speak with pro-Israel students during a tabling event called “We’re Palestinian, Ask Us Anything,” on Feb. 21, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2284139166796516093457399034900/250223_JMC_Capstone_0018.JPG A painting he purchased in a charity auction for four University of Rochester (UR) students expelled for their alleged involvement with the distribution of “wanted” posters targeting staff and faculty at the UR sits on Karam Aldahleh’s floor on Feb. 23, 2025, in <span style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 0rem; border-style: solid;">Rochester, NY.</span> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2284139294189730666495562494996/250223_JMC_Capstone_0299.JPG Karam Aldahleh drives to buy groceries on Feb. 23, 2025, in Rochester, NY.<br /> <br /> <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2284141980220135239343373300756/241121_JMC_Capstone_1020.JPG Karam Aldahleh leads protesters in chants in solidarity with four students who were arrested and suspended for alleged involvement with the distribution of “wanted” posters targeting staff and faculty at the University of Rochester on Nov. 21, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2284151307908509830946695689236/240428_JMC_Capstone_1617.jpg Laith Awad, a Palestinian-Puerto Rican senior and a leader in the University of Rochester (UR) pro-Palestine movement, left, and another participant in the UR Gaza solidarity encampment, hang a Palestinian flag from a tree near Eastman Quadrangle, on April 28, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2284158400939860589301225763860/240511_JMC_Capstone_0280.jpg Two students in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment use screws and a drill to fortify a visual barrier erected to protect the privacy of the encampment’s participants on May 11, 2024, in Rochester, NY. On the outside of the barrier, the names of Palestinians killed in the war in Gaza are written. On this section of the fence are the names of some of those in the Al-Astal family, of whom over 100 have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2290177439460176088272505418772/240426_JMC_Capstone_011.JPG A tour group passes the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment on April 26, 2024, in Rochester, NY. <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2290177549495004487949980808212/240425_JMC_Capstone_033.JPG A participant in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment works on a Spanish essay in her tent on April 25, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2290181797485016758080365147156/250209_JMC_Capstone_599.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp, left, and Mowaz Alvi share tofu and Buffalo cauliflower that Gentry-Sharp prepared on Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2290182461180421786076322739220/250209_JMC_Capstone_036.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp reads a cookbook in his room as he prepares to make food for a Super Bowl party on Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2290182660737299175466252121108/250131_JMC_DG_0088.JPG Mowaz Alvi does his morning prayer as he gets up for the day on Jan. 31, 2025, at his apartment in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2290188871516221120514057057300/250209_JMC_Capstone_084.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp, left, and Mowaz Alvi talk in their apartment on the evening of Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2290191027368754270875644867604/241113_JMC_Capstone_123.JPG Dr. Joshua Dubler, right, and Sarah Aljitawi sit in class during the “organizing for divestment” independent study on Dec. 13, 2024, in Rochester, NY.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2290192529431783960823304303636/241019_JMC_Capstone_035.JPG Members of the campus organization Jewish Voices for Peace talk with Dr. Joshua Dubler and Dr. Lisa Cerami during the Jewish holiday, Sukkot, on Oct. 19, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Dubler and Cerami provided a Sukkah (a wooden structure used during the week-long Sukkot festival) for the club and led a Havdalah ceremony later that evening. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2290201579109278617549974287380/240430_JMC_Capstone_481.jpg Participants in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment hold their nightly meeting, during which plans are discussed, updates on the war in Gaza are given, and questions from participants are answered, on April 30, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2290204593417940726132965651476/240501_JMC_Capstone_1688.JPG Participants in the UR pro-Palestine encampment pray during a peaceful sit-in inside the UR administrative building, Wallis Hall, on May 1, 2024, in Rochester, NY, as Peace Officers from the UR Department of Public Safety look on. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2290205216954783905663229375508/240501_JMC_Capstone_1211.jpg A student rallies a crowd in front of the University of Rochester administrative building, Wallis Hall, as a group of roughly twenty protesters engages in a peaceful sit-in inside on May 1, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2290208240726625724059220718612/240501_JMC_Capstone_1562.jpg Laith Awad negotiates with Michael Marsh, UR president Sarah C. Mangelsdorf’s chief of staff, as Dept. of Public Safety officer Joseph Hayflinger looks on, inside the Wallis Hall administrative building on May 1, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2290210846716607761081287062548/240503_JMC_Capstone_1582.jpg Two members of the University of Rochester Department of Public Safety block the front door to Wallis Hall as student protesters engage in a second peaceful sit-in on May 3, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Laith Awad led students in a second occupation of the building after accusing administrators of negotiating in bad faith following the first sit-in. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2290212916699547248324912100372/240514_JMC_Capstone_0575B.jpg University of Rochester (UR) Department of Public Safety personnel enforce a perimeter around Eastman Quadrangle, as their colleagues facilitate the forcible removal of the UR pro-Palestine encampment, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY. The officers who participated were armed, and some carried braces of zip-tie handcuffs on their belts. Many obscured their identities with black masks, hats, and sunglasses. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2290219279534980592960551007252/240514_JMC_Capstone_0585.jpg Dr. Joshua Dubler stands with the students who were recently forced out of the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment as it was destroyed, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Both Dubler and Dr. Lisa Cerami were on standby to support their students in case the encampment was attacked, and when the call came, they rushed to campus.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2290228560036583844014840362004/240514_JMC_Capstone_0668A.jpg A University of Rochester Department of Public Safety vehicle drives through a parking lot as an excavator crushes material taken from the pro-Palestine encampment into a dumpster that will soon be on its way to a landfill, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2290230844702730861090227106836/241005_JMC_Capstone_0102A.JPG Sarah Aljitawi sits during a vigil for the tens of thousands of dead in Gaza, on Oct. 5, 2024, at Martin Luther King Park, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2290241751579972114820844237844/240928_JMC_Capstone_0433.JPG A pedestrian looks at the participants in a “die-in” during the University of Rochester Meliora Weekend festival on Sept. 28, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2290244959616340485501546673172/250227_JMC_Capstone_1123.JPG <span style="display: inline-block; padding-top: 0.0rem; border-style: solid;">Mowaz Alvi stands in front of Wallis Hall, where the University of Rochester administration is headquartered, on Feb. 27, 2025, in Rochester, NY.</span> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2290247240998967057456633230356/250302_JMC_Capstone_0962.JPG Remnants of “wanted” posters in the University of Rochester tunnels on March 1, 2025, in Rochester, NY. The posters were affixed with a strong adhesive, making their complete removal extremely difficult. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2290252196735209203601384420372/241119_JMC_Capstone_0431.JPG A truck on Mt. Hope Ave, in the University of Rochester College Town, demands the expulsion of students involved in a “wanted” poster incident, on Nov. 19, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2290253999959782640931183539220/241120_JMC_Capstone_0315.JPG Sarah Aljitawi speaks to the press on Nov. 20, 2024, outside of the Monroe County Hall of Justice, in Rochester, NY, after the arraignment of four students arrested for their alleged role in the distribution of “wanted” posters on the University of Rochester campus. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2290254899994872741293916435476/241120_JMC_Capstone_0439.JPG Miller Gentry-Sharp blocks a news camera as students who have just been released from Monroe County Jail after their arraignments exit the building to meet a group of their peers, on Nov. 20, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2290255027203619873594984379412/241120_JMC_Capstone_0433.JPG Sarah Aljitawi embraces Jefferson Turcios as he leaves Monroe County Jail on Nov. 20, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Turcios is a University of Rochester student who was charged with a felony misdemeanor for his alleged role in distributing “wanted” posters on the University of Rochester campus. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2290272083229211122109794497556/250207_JMC_Capstone_0282.jpg A Television display announces that Donald Trump has sanctioned the International Criminal Court, on Feb. 7, 2025, in Frederick Douglass Hall, on the University of Rochester campus, in Rochester, NY.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2290274263449893193841699992596/250303_JMC_Capstone_234.JPG Saafa Tahboub, left, and Dariel Guerra participate in a student senate meeting on March 3, 2025, in Rochester, NY, as a representative from the Graduate Labor Union speaks during the open forum. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2290291100752439960382356599828/250320_JMC_Capstone_505.JPG Saafa Tahboub stands in front of Monroe County Jail, on March 23, 2025, in Rochester, NY. The jail is where four of her peers were held after they were taken from campus and charged with felony misdemeanors for their alleged role in the distribution of “wanted” <span style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 12.0rem; border-style: solid;">posters</span>. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2290306733076770344067682546708/241115_JMC_Capstone_0608A.JPG Dr. Joshua Dubler and Dr. Lisa Cerami speak with guests during a Shabbat dinner in their home on Nov. 15, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2323743359104638483964031153172/250301_JMC_Capstone_131.JPG <div style="text-align: left">Dariel Guerra, a recently elected student senator and active pro-Palestine student organizer, sits for a portrait in his on-campus apartment on March 1, 2025, in Rochester, NY. Guerra was evicted from this apartment on April 6, 2025, after he received an interim ban from the University of Rochester.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2330212826716864448761855489044/250221_JMC_Capstone_0224.JPG Karam Aldahleh studies abstract algebra in his room on Feb. 23, 2025, in Rochester, NY. <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2330215929680578575592951919636/250209_JMC_Capstone_207.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp, left, and Mowaz Alvi watch the Super Bowl on the sidewalk on Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY, as a fire alarm goes off in their building. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2331147683615072288573079958548/240509_JMC_Capstone_2146.jpg Dr. Joshua Dubler, left, Palestinian community leader Jonathan Khoury, and Laith Awad, right, attend a news conference regarding the 11 student suspensions, on May 9, 2024, in Genesee Valley Park, just off the University of Rochester campus, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2334347813948740650319916839956/JMC_Dec17Edit_147.JPG Basem Ashkar, a Palestinian community member, gives a peace sign to a passing car as he demonstrates in front of an L3 Harris Technologies building on Nov. 15, 2024, in Rochester. L3 Harris Technologies is a surveillance and weapons company that manufactures components for technologies that are often used by the Israeli military against <span style="display: inline-block; padding-top: 0rem; border-style: solid;">Palestinians.</span> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2351854787169875542932075590676/250220_Ciembroniewicz_Portrait_03.JPG Sarah Aljitawi stands on Eastman Quadrangle in front of Rush Rhees Library, on Feb. 20, 2025, in Rochester, NY. Eastman Quadrangle was the site of the University of Rochester (UR) pro-Palestine encampment, which remained in place until it was forcibly removed by UR Department of Public Safety personnel on May 14, 2024. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2351880618772791256923328230420/250404_Ciembroniewicz_GeorgeEastman_03.JPG A statue of George Eastman streaked with fresh paint stands on the edge of Eastman Quadrangle, on April 4, 2025, in Rochester, NY. This act of civil disobedience was carried out in the early hours of the morning and was purportedly intended as a reminder of Palestinian lives lost since Oct. 7, 2023. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2351886489172391553882486748180/240928_Ciembroniewicz_Doorway_04.JPG A student stands in the doorway of the dormitory building where students gathered before they engaged in a protest during the University of Rochester Meliora Weekend alumni festival on Sept. 28, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2351892032289858495086780494868/241007_JMC_Capstone_0238.JPG Paul Sanders, the Israel Programming Chair for the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, speaks during the October 7 Commemoration, hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, at Temple Beth El on Oct. 7, 2024, in Brighton, NY. Behind him is an image of Omer Neutra, 21, an American-Israeli tank commander, who was initially thought to have been kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attacks, but has since been confirmed to have been killed fighting militants on Oct. 7, 2023. His body was taken into <span style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 3rem; border-style: solid;">Gaza. </span> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2352137052053461257744178492436/241005_JMC_Capstone_0041.JPG Sarah Aljitawi dances with the Dabke team during a campus cultural club mixer on Oct. 5, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Dabke is a traditional Levantine folk dance, and the team is part of the Student Association for the Development of Arab Cultural Awareness, a campus organization for which Aljitawi serves as president. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2352142753425545607302715552788/241203_JMC_Capstone_215A.JPG A man gestures to pro-Palestine protesters on the corner of Elmwood Ave and Mt. Hope Ave on Dec. 3, 2024, in Rochester, NY, as he screams, “you’re all terrorists.” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2352148459888931321205088859156/IMG_2519_1.JPG Karam Aldahleh, left, stands with his brothers on Aug. 1, 2015, beside the separation barrier constructed by Israel in the West Bank, Palestine. (Photo provided by Ayman Aldahleh) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2352163922244961809730606216212/240502_JMC_Capstone_2473.jpg Laith Awad leads participants in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment in a call and response chant of “Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe,” during the nightly encampment meeting on May 2, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://resilience.jciembroniewicz.com/main-mobile-view 2025-06-06T16:57:02+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2177154423264699563722432853012/JMC_Dec17Edit_001.JPG Sarah Aljitawi stands on Eastman Quadrangle in front of Rush Rhees Library, on Feb. 20, 2025, in Rochester, NY. Eastman Quadrangle was the site of the University of Rochester (UR) pro-Palestine encampment, which remained in place until it was forcibly removed by UR Department of Public Safety personnel on May 14, 2024. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2284042771416897540529636258836/240514_JMC_Capstone_0165.jpg People at the University of Rochester walk the patch of grass on Eastman Quadrangle where the pro-Palestine encampment stood earlier that day, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY.  The encampment was present on campus for 22 days.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2284065060636208547854563423252/250320_JMC_Capstone_375.JPG Karam Aldahleh, a Palestinian-American junior at UR, hugs a friend after she speaks to the crowd during a protest on Wilson Quadrangle demanding the protection of First Amendment rights on college campuses, on March 20, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2284123918016888490341070287892/250221_JMC_Capstone_1200.JPG Karam Aldahleh, left, Sarah Aljitawi, and Saafa Tahboub, right, speak with pro-Israel students during a tabling event called “We’re Palestinian, Ask Us Anything,” on Feb. 21, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2284139166796516093457399034900/250223_JMC_Capstone_0018.JPG A painting he purchased in a charity auction for four University of Rochester (UR) students expelled for their alleged involvement with the distribution of “wanted” posters targeting staff and faculty at the UR sits on Karam Aldahleh’s floor on Feb. 23, 2025, in <span style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 0rem; border-style: solid;">Rochester, NY.</span> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2284139294189730666495562494996/250223_JMC_Capstone_0299.JPG Karam Aldahleh drives to buy groceries on Feb. 23, 2025, in <span style="display: inline-block; padding-top: 0rem; border-style: solid; padding-bottom: 3rem;">Rochester, NY. </span><br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2284141980220135239343373300756/241121_JMC_Capstone_1020.JPG Karam Aldahleh leads protesters in chants in solidarity with four students who were arrested and suspended for alleged involvement with the distribution of “wanted” posters targeting staff and faculty at the University of Rochester on Nov. 21, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2284151307908509830946695689236/240428_JMC_Capstone_1617.jpg Laith Awad, a Palestinian-Puerto Rican senior and a leader in the University of Rochester (UR) pro-Palestine movement, left, and another participant in the UR Gaza solidarity encampment, hang a Palestinian flag from a tree near Eastman Quadrangle, on April 28, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2284158400939860589301225763860/240511_JMC_Capstone_0280.jpg Two students in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment use screws and a drill to fortify a visual barrier erected to protect the privacy of the encampment’s participants on May 11, 2024, in Rochester, NY. On the outside of the barrier, the names of Palestinians killed in the war in Gaza are written. On this section of the fence are the names of some of those in the Al-Astal family, of whom over 100 have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2290177439460176088272505418772/240426_JMC_Capstone_011.JPG A tour group passes the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment on April 26, 2024, in Rochester, NY. <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2290177549495004487949980808212/240425_JMC_Capstone_033.JPG A participant in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment works on a Spanish essay in her tent on April 25, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2290181797485016758080365147156/250209_JMC_Capstone_599.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp, left, and Mowaz Alvi share tofu and Buffalo cauliflower that Gentry-Sharp prepared on Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2290182461180421786076322739220/250209_JMC_Capstone_036.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp reads a cookbook in his room as he prepares to make food for a Super Bowl party on Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2290182660737299175466252121108/250131_JMC_DG_0088.JPG Mowaz Alvi does his morning prayer as he gets up for the day on Jan. 31, 2025, at his apartment in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2290188871516221120514057057300/250209_JMC_Capstone_084.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp, left, and Mowaz Alvi talk in their apartment on the evening of Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2290191027368754270875644867604/241113_JMC_Capstone_123.JPG Dr. Joshua Dubler, right, and Sarah Aljitawi sit in class during the “organizing for divestment” independent study on Dec. 13, 2024, in Rochester, NY.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2290192529431783960823304303636/241019_JMC_Capstone_035.JPG Members of the campus organization Jewish Voices for Peace talk with Dr. Joshua Dubler and Dr. Lisa Cerami during the Jewish holiday, Sukkot, on Oct. 19, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Dubler and Cerami provided a Sukkah (a wooden structure used during the week-long Sukkot festival) for the club and led a Havdalah ceremony later that evening. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2290201579109278617549974287380/240430_JMC_Capstone_481.jpg Participants in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment hold their nightly meeting, during which plans are discussed, updates on the war in Gaza are given, and questions from participants are answered, on April 30, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2290204593417940726132965651476/240501_JMC_Capstone_1688.JPG Participants in the UR pro-Palestine encampment pray during a peaceful sit-in inside the UR administrative building, Wallis Hall, on May 1, 2024, in Rochester, NY, as Peace Officers from the UR Department of Public Safety look on. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2290205216954783905663229375508/240501_JMC_Capstone_1211.jpg A student rallies a crowd in front of the University of Rochester administrative building, Wallis Hall, as a group of roughly twenty protesters engages in a peaceful sit-in inside on May 1, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2290208240726625724059220718612/240501_JMC_Capstone_1562.jpg Laith Awad negotiates with Michael Marsh, UR president Sarah C. Mangelsdorf’s chief of staff, as Dept. of Public Safety officer Joseph Hayflinger looks on, inside the Wallis Hall administrative building on May 1, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2290210846716607761081287062548/240503_JMC_Capstone_1582.jpg Two members of the University of Rochester Department of Public Safety block the front door to Wallis Hall as student protesters engage in a second peaceful sit-in on May 3, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Laith Awad led students in a second occupation of the building after accusing administrators of negotiating in bad faith following the first sit-in. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2290212916699547248324912100372/240514_JMC_Capstone_0575B.jpg University of Rochester (UR) Department of Public Safety personnel enforce a perimeter around Eastman Quadrangle, as their colleagues facilitate the forcible removal of the UR pro-Palestine encampment, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY. The officers who participated were armed, and some carried braces of zip-tie handcuffs on their belts. Many obscured their identities with black masks, hats, and sunglasses. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2290219279534980592960551007252/240514_JMC_Capstone_0585.jpg Dr. Joshua Dubler stands with the students who were recently forced out of the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment as it was destroyed, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Both Dubler and Dr. Lisa Cerami were on standby to support their students in case the encampment was attacked, and when the call came, they rushed to campus.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2290228560036583844014840362004/240514_JMC_Capstone_0668A.jpg A University of Rochester Department of Public Safety vehicle drives through a parking lot as an excavator crushes material taken from the pro-Palestine encampment into a dumpster that will soon be on its way to a landfill, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2290230844702730861090227106836/241005_JMC_Capstone_0102A.JPG Sarah Aljitawi sits during a vigil for the tens of thousands of dead in Gaza, on Oct. 5, 2024, at Martin Luther King Park, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2290241751579972114820844237844/240928_JMC_Capstone_0433.JPG A pedestrian looks at the participants in a “die-in” during the University of Rochester Meliora Weekend festival on Sept. 28, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2290244959616340485501546673172/250227_JMC_Capstone_1123.JPG Mowaz Alvi stands in front of Wallis Hall, where the University of Rochester administration is headquartered, on Feb. 27, 2025, in Rochester, NY.<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2290247240998967057456633230356/250302_JMC_Capstone_0962.JPG Remnants of “wanted” posters in the University of Rochester tunnels on March 1, 2025, in Rochester, NY. The posters were affixed with a strong adhesive, making their complete removal extremely difficult. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2290252196735209203601384420372/241119_JMC_Capstone_0431.JPG A truck on Mt. Hope Ave, in the University of Rochester College Town, demands the expulsion of students involved in a “wanted” poster incident, on Nov. 19, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2290253999959782640931183539220/241120_JMC_Capstone_0315.JPG Sarah Aljitawi speaks to the press on Nov. 20, 2024, outside of the Monroe County Hall of Justice, in Rochester, NY, after the arraignment of four students arrested for their alleged role in the distribution of “wanted” posters on the University of Rochester campus. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2290254899994872741293916435476/241120_JMC_Capstone_0439.JPG Miller Gentry-Sharp blocks a news camera as students who have just been released from Monroe County Jail after their arraignments exit the building to meet a group of their peers, on Nov. 20, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2290255027203619873594984379412/241120_JMC_Capstone_0433.JPG Sarah Aljitawi embraces Jefferson Turcios as he leaves Monroe County Jail on Nov. 20, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Turcios is a University of Rochester student who was charged with a felony misdemeanor for his alleged role in distributing “wanted” posters on the University of Rochester campus. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2290272083229211122109794497556/250207_JMC_Capstone_0282.jpg A Television display announces that Donald Trump has sanctioned the International Criminal Court, on Feb. 7, 2025, in Frederick Douglass Hall, on the University of Rochester campus, in Rochester, NY.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2290274263449893193841699992596/250303_JMC_Capstone_234.JPG Saafa Tahboub, left, and Dariel Guerra participate in a student senate meeting on March 3, 2025, in Rochester, NY, as a representative from the Graduate Labor Union speaks during the open forum. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2290291100752439960382356599828/250320_JMC_Capstone_505.JPG Saafa Tahboub stands in front of Monroe County Jail, on March 23, 2025, in Rochester, NY. The jail is where four of her peers were held after they were taken from campus and charged with felony misdemeanors for their alleged role in the distribution of “wanted” posters. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2290306733076770344067682546708/241115_JMC_Capstone_0608A.JPG Dr. Joshua Dubler and Dr. Lisa Cerami speak with guests during a Shabbat dinner in their home on Nov. 15, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2323743359104638483964031153172/250301_JMC_Capstone_131.JPG <div style="text-align: left">Dariel Guerra, a recently elected student senator and active pro-Palestine student organizer, sits for a portrait in his on-campus apartment on March 1, 2025, in Rochester, NY. Guerra was evicted from this apartment on April 6, 2025, after he received an interim ban from the University of Rochester.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2330212826716864448761855489044/250221_JMC_Capstone_0224.JPG Karam Aldahleh studies abstract algebra in his room on Feb. 23, 2025, in Rochester, NY. <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2330215929680578575592951919636/250209_JMC_Capstone_207.jpg Miller Gentry-Sharp, left, and Mowaz Alvi watch the Super Bowl on the sidewalk on Feb. 9, 2025, in Rochester, NY, as a fire alarm goes off in their building. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2331147683615072288573079958548/240509_JMC_Capstone_2146.jpg Dr. Joshua Dubler, left, Palestinian community leader Jonathan Khoury, and Laith Awad, right, attend a news conference regarding the 11 student suspensions, on May 9, 2024, in Genesee Valley Park, just off the University of Rochester campus, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2334347813948740650319916839956/JMC_Dec17Edit_147.JPG Basem Ashkar, a Palestinian community member, gives a peace sign to a passing car as he demonstrates in front of an L3 Harris Technologies building on Nov. 15, 2024, in Rochester. L3 Harris Technologies is a surveillance and weapons company that manufactures components for technologies that are often used by the Israeli military against Palestinians. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2351854787169875542932075590676/250220_Ciembroniewicz_Portrait_03.JPG Sarah Aljitawi stands on Eastman Quadrangle in front of Rush Rhees Library, on Feb. 20, 2025, in Rochester, NY. Eastman Quadrangle was the site of the University of Rochester (UR) pro-Palestine encampment, which remained in place until it was forcibly removed by UR Department of Public Safety personnel on May 14, 2024. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2351880618772791256923328230420/250404_Ciembroniewicz_GeorgeEastman_03.JPG A statue of George Eastman streaked with fresh paint stands on the edge of Eastman Quadrangle, on April 4, 2025, in Rochester, NY. This act of civil disobedience was carried out in the early hours of the morning and was purportedly intended as a reminder of Palestinian lives lost since Oct. 7, 2023. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2351886489172391553882486748180/240928_Ciembroniewicz_Doorway_04.JPG A student stands in the doorway of the dormitory building where students gathered before they engaged in a protest during the University of Rochester Meliora Weekend alumni festival on Sept. 28, 2024, in Rochester, NY. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2351892032289858495086780494868/241007_JMC_Capstone_0238.JPG Paul Sanders, the Israel Programming Chair for the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, speaks during the October 7 Commemoration, hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, at Temple Beth El on Oct. 7, 2024, in Brighton, NY. Behind him is an image of Omer Neutra, 21, an American-Israeli tank commander, who was initially thought to have been kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attacks, but has since been confirmed to have been killed fighting militants on Oct. 7, 2023. His body was taken into Gaza. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2352137052053461257744178492436/241005_JMC_Capstone_0041.JPG Sarah Aljitawi dances with the Dabke team during a campus cultural club mixer on Oct. 5, 2024, in Rochester, NY. Dabke is a traditional Levantine folk dance, and the team is part of the Student Association for the Development of Arab Cultural Awareness, a campus organization for which Aljitawi serves as president. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2352142753425545607302715552788/241203_JMC_Capstone_215A.JPG A man gestures to pro-Palestine protesters on the corner of Elmwood Ave and Mt. Hope Ave on Dec. 3, 2024, in Rochester, NY, as he screams, “you’re all terrorists.” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2352148459888931321205088859156/IMG_2519_1.JPG Karam Aldahleh, left, stands with his brothers on Aug. 1, 2015, beside the separation barrier constructed by Israel in the West Bank, Palestine. (Photo provided by Ayman Aldahleh) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2352163922244961809730606216212/240502_JMC_Capstone_2473.jpg Laith Awad leads participants in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment in a call and response chant of “Who keeps us safe? 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