Over 300 students and community members gathered in Pocket Park at Tulane University on Friday for Here We Shall Stay, a festival and fundraiser hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Coalition at Tulane University.
According to PSC, the event raised over $1800 for the Middle East Children’s Alliance and Bridge of Solidarity, non-profit humanitarian aid programs for children and families in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq.
The event featured live music, beading, henna, food, kite decorating and other activities provided by dozens of on and off-campus organizations, including Latinas Unidas de Tulane University, the Tulane Gardening Club and NOLA Musicians for Palestine.
In addition to arts and crafts, the Palestinian Youth Movement, PSC and New Orleans Stop Helping Israel’s Ports had posters and pamphlets discussing the history of Palestine.
“On a campus that is exceedingly hostile to Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ students, we are reclaiming our space and forcing the wider Tulane community to reckon with our university’s ideological and material complicity in apartheid and settler-colonialism,” the PSC board said in a statement.
The festival is one of many PSC events since its inception earlier this year.
“We hope attendees left inspired to commit themselves to Palestine and to other global struggles for freedom and self-determination,” the PSC said.
Sarah • Apr 13, 2026 at 3:21 pm
Wow, Tulane has really gone downhill. I feel embarrassed to be an alumni with activities like these taking over the campus. I will no longer be donating to the school.
Anonymous • Apr 13, 2026 at 10:47 am
Glad too see the University not silencing perspectives that go against the larger agenda of their donors