Friday, February 25, 2011, the Louisville Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) held a demonstration at the University of Louisville in solidarity with the people of Hebron in their struggle for human rights and justice in their occupied streets. This event was in coordination with the worldwide campaign to stand with Hebron to demand that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) open Shuhada Street to Palestinians to whom it has been closed for 17 years. The event was well attended with around 25 people showing up to protest this unjust closure and Apartheid. Protesters blocked off a sidewalk in the center of campus for an hour and then marched to the front of the library to continue chanting “Open Shuhada Street,” as well as chants calling for an end to the Israeli military occupation and Apartheid. The protest continued as we marched through the university, passing out informational brochures calling for the opening of Shuhada Street, as well as LSJP literature with facts and figures of Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians. We passed out more than 300 pamphlets during the course of the protest. That evening, one of the students spoke in the community to an audience of over forty people about human rights abuses in Palestine within the context of what he witnessed on his trip to the region in 2010, also elaborating on the colonization of Hebron and closure of Shuhada Street. LSJP’s individual efforts were mentioned and the speech ended with a video of that day's violent repression by the IOF of the nonviolent Palestinian march to open Shuhada Street.
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