Until Palestine is Free: Lessons From a Student Intifada
OUT AUGUST 2025
OUT AUGUST 2025
About the book:
Until Palestine is Free: Lessons From a Student Intifada is a student-led publication that documents the historic resurgence of UK student organising for Palestine since October 2023. With Gaza and the Palestinian resistance as their compass, students have been holding UK higher education institutions accountable in their complicity in the zionist settler-colonial project and in the broader imperialist infrastructure that enables genocide. Created by those directly involved in campus organising, it offers a living archive and practical toolkit shaped by frontline experiences, strategies, and political clarity.
Edited and designed by Zissel Aronow and Tessnim Tolba of the RCA Palestine Society, with illustrations from Lewis Danielski, the publication brings together writings, artwork, and conversations from student groups, artists, and organisers. Spanning six themes – Organising Skills, Coalition Building, Encampments/Occupations, Welfare, Repression, and Art as Resistance – it reflects on lessons learned through struggle, particularly encampments, occupations, and cross-campus coalitions.
More than a record, this is a toolbox for future organisers: a politicising resource grounded in a commitment to anti-zionism and anti-imperialism. It is a refusal to look away and an invitation to join the struggle – until Palestine is free.
Edited and designed by Zissel Aronow and Tessnim Tolba of the RCA Palestine Society, with illustrations from Lewis Danielski, the publication brings together writings, artwork, and conversations from student groups, artists, and organisers. Spanning six themes – Organising Skills, Coalition Building, Encampments/Occupations, Welfare, Repression, and Art as Resistance – it reflects on lessons learned through struggle, particularly encampments, occupations, and cross-campus coalitions.
More than a record, this is a toolbox for future organisers: a politicising resource grounded in a commitment to anti-zionism and anti-imperialism. It is a refusal to look away and an invitation to join the struggle – until Palestine is free.
Contents:
An Introduction to Until Palestine is Free: Lessons From a Student IntifadaZissel Aronow & Tessnim Tolba of RCA Palestine Society
Long Live the Student Intifada!Photographs by Birkbeck for Palestine
I: ORGANISING SKILLS
From the River to the Sea: Chants for PalestineLoughborough Action for Palestine & Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
A Short History of the Palestinian Student MovementPalestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
Revolutionary Organising Principles & PracticesPalestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
II: COALITION BUILDING, ENCAMPMENTS/OCCUPATIONS & WELFARE
School of Occupation Apartheid StudiesPhotographs by Birkbeck for Palestine & Jack Farrar of LSE Liberated Zone
The SOAS Liberated Zone Archive at 56a Infoshop
What Has Solidarity Meant to Us?M. R. Filler of UCL Jews for Palestinian Justice
Gathering TogetherLeeds Kehillah
A Four Leaf Clover Eli Amit of University of Leeds
Occupation DiariesUCL Action for Palestine
Queer Tactics of ProtestLime & Violet of the York Palestine Encampment
The London School of Exploitation: PostersLSE Liberated Zone
Welfare in PracticeGG & S of the LSE Liberated Zone
Map of the LSE Liberated ZoneCassandra Jordan, P & S of the LSE Liberated Zone
Welfare Tips & GuidelinesGG, Jade-Lou Bassien-Capsa & Megan O'Brien of the LSE Liberated Zone
III: REPRESSION
The London School of Exploitation LSE Liberated Zone
Building Collective Movements in the Face of RepressionAlice, F & S of the LSE Liberated Zone
Learning About Data Security York Students for Palestine
Reflections on Organising as a Muslim WomanIzzy of Loughborough Action for Palestine
Long Live the Student Intifada!Photographs by Birkbeck for Palestine
I: ORGANISING SKILLS
From the River to the Sea: Chants for PalestineLoughborough Action for Palestine & Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
A Short History of the Palestinian Student MovementPalestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
Revolutionary Organising Principles & PracticesPalestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
II: COALITION BUILDING, ENCAMPMENTS/OCCUPATIONS & WELFARE
School of Occupation Apartheid StudiesPhotographs by Birkbeck for Palestine & Jack Farrar of LSE Liberated Zone
The SOAS Liberated Zone Archive at 56a Infoshop
What Has Solidarity Meant to Us?M. R. Filler of UCL Jews for Palestinian Justice
Gathering TogetherLeeds Kehillah
A Four Leaf Clover Eli Amit of University of Leeds
Occupation DiariesUCL Action for Palestine
Queer Tactics of ProtestLime & Violet of the York Palestine Encampment
The London School of Exploitation: PostersLSE Liberated Zone
Welfare in PracticeGG & S of the LSE Liberated Zone
Map of the LSE Liberated ZoneCassandra Jordan, P & S of the LSE Liberated Zone
Welfare Tips & GuidelinesGG, Jade-Lou Bassien-Capsa & Megan O'Brien of the LSE Liberated Zone
III: REPRESSION
The London School of Exploitation LSE Liberated Zone
Building Collective Movements in the Face of RepressionAlice, F & S of the LSE Liberated Zone
Learning About Data Security York Students for Palestine
Reflections on Organising as a Muslim WomanIzzy of Loughborough Action for Palestine
Art Resists Elias Rizek of the Royal College of Art
A Timeline of the RCA Palestine SocietyRCA Palestine Society
Our Research Accompanying ‘When it Stopped Being a War’: The Situated Testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah RCA Palestine Society
At the Burj al Barajneh Refugee Camp Dalia Amellal of the Royal College of Art
Unbroken Threads: Creative Resistance for Palestine at London Design Festival RCA Palestine Society
Don't Say Palestine Elias Rizek of the Royal College of Art
The Image as an Archive Zain Al-Sharaf Wahbeh of the Royal College of Art
Toward Decolonising UCL's Institute of Archaeology Collections Katie Reinmann & IoA Palestine Project
Gathering in Grief: A Collective Quilt for PalestineJamila Abdel-Razek of UCL Action for Palestine with Jess Bailey of Public Library Quilts
Sewing the Flag in Shifa'a SquareBirkbeck for Palestine & Sew 4 Palestine
The University Cannot Issue Arrest WarrantsViolet of the York Palestine Encampment
V: COALITION BUILDING, ORGANISING SKILLS & RESOURCES
The Importance of a National Student ConferencePalestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
Building a Global Solidarity NetworkGhaied of Birzeit University's Speech at the National Student Conference 2024
"On Facilitating Encampment General Meetings" Scorpio of the LSE Liberated Zone
Mapping the Moment' Workshop Facilitation PlanZissel Aronow & Tessnim Tolba of RCA Palestine Society
Cambridge for Palestine Archive Working ManifestoCambridge for Palestine Archive
Collective Resource List
Edited & Designed by:Zissel Aronow
Tessnim Tolba
Illustrations & Cover Design by:Lewis Danielski
Printed by:Calverts Print Co-Op
9/10 The Oval
London
E2 9DT
316 pages
180x148mm
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