While summer break brought an abrupt end to a tumultuous spring of pro-Palestinian protests, some campus organizers have used the time to recalibrate their plans for continuing their activism.
“Until victory, we will be back,” Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted on Instagram in June, calling for their members to “agitate, educate, escalate for Gaza.” Likewise, the University of California at Berkeley’s chapter of SJP posted a similar call to action on Instagram on August 2.
Aayush Goodapaty is a former intern at The Dispatch. He’s an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where he is majoring in economics and history.
Cole Murphy is a Morning Dispatch Reporter based in Atlanta. Prior to joining the company in 2025, he interned at The Dispatch and worked in business strategy at Home Depot. When Cole is not conributing to TMD, he is probably seeing a movie, listening to indie country music, or having his heart broken by Atlanta sports teams.
