Leah Cohn

Reporter/Anchor/Producer @CitrusTVNews | Design Editor @dailyorange | @NewhouseSU '26

[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#NEW: The Syracuse Peace Council (SPC) releases a SU Encampment Solidarity Statement.

SPC says "We vigorously applaud the initiative and courage of S.U students and their campus allies as they wage this nonviolent counter-occupation..."
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#UPDATE: Local org., Resilient Indigenous Active Collective stands with SU's encampment. In their tent, they're sharing info about Indigenous theory and the Land Back movement. A member says they stand with Palestine and are against settler colonialism anywhere.
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#NOW: SU Assistant Professor Jenn M. Jackson is speaking to encampment organizers to encourage them to educate one another, mobilize and now strategize.

Jackson says, "You don't let up until administration responds to every single one of them (official demands)"
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#Update: Following the counter demonstration, encampment participants gather for a community "emotional regulation" circle. Later participants joined separate circles to discuss social issues.
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[Max Williams @maxwilliamstv]

#NEW: Organizers of @SyracuseU pro-Palestinian encampment sent out an official statement today saying they have parted ways with one of their organizers. Sources familiar with the situation tell @CitrusTVNews that Aziza Zahran is accused of making “harmful antisemitic remarks” in a 2012 Twitter post.

“We made the decision that they step down from organizing,” said the organization.

CitrusTV confirmed yesterday that Zahran was an SU graduate student.

⬇️Full statement below:

[Max Williams @maxwilliamstv]

#WATCH: “We are going to stay here until our demands are met,” said Adeline Spallina Jones, a pro-Palestinian student involved in the SU Shaw Quad encampment.

As the pro-Israeli rally marched by the encampment, pro-Palestinians remained silent.

“We [pro-Palestinians] are not here to cause any violence,” said Jones.

Here is what Jones had to say when asked about the pro-Israeli rally today:
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#UPDATE: Pro-Israel students say they "wouldn't call this a protest, this was a peaceful walk". The demonstration was concluded with SU Chabad House Rabbi Mendy leading a prayer. Some students with Israeli flags are remaining on the quad near Shaffer Art Building.
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#Update: While pro-Israel protestors are playing music and gathering in circles, encampment participants line along their tents facing the counter protest. Encampment participates have not made any collective vocal response.
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#NOW: Pro-Israel protests gather on the opposite side of the SU quad.
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#NOW: Encampment participants are standing with signs on the quad near Hendricks Chapel.
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#UPDATE: Over 50 pro-Israel protestors have gathered outside Ernie Davis. DPS is preparing to escort protesters to the SU campus quad.

[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#NOW: People are gathering outside of Ernie Davis Hall with Israel flags and dressed in blue and white.

One DPS office is speaking to individuals.

[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#NOW: Encampments participants are making signs and art for upcoming counter protest.

Some signs say "U.S Jews say ceasefire in Gaza now" and "Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism"
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#NOW: SU Encampment gathers for a morning meeting to discuss community guidelines and protocol.

One student organizer says, "We are a community, we are not here to appoint leadership". Another participant says, "Anyone of you guys can be that person" .
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

Chabad's statement follows Syracuse Hillel's address to the encampment, released yesterday morning. Hillel says they are "closely monitoring the situation [...] in different areas", including "The Anti-Israel Encampment", the SA resolution, and with an address to students.

[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

#UPDATE: SU's Chabad House releases a statement via @chabadsu on insta.

Addressed to "OrangeJews", the center says a group of SU Jewish students told the Student Association that the encampment is "antisemitic" and causes "distress to the larger Jewish student body".

[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

New: The 'Cuse Ceasefire Coalition releases their "Solidarity Statement" with the SU encampment.

The Coalition is saying they back university students who support Palestine and calls on SU "to not use its power to silence student dissent".
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[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

End Antisemitism Now, a local org., tells @CitrusTVNews details addressing the SU grad student encampment organizer that made past anti-Jewish remarks.

The organization says, "Zahran is using the Cuse Ceasefire Coalition as a vehicle to promote her own antisemitic agenda".

[Leah Cohn @LeahCohnTV]

NEW: SU's PSC released a statement denouncing "Anti-Jewish Comments" following the SA statement about "Antisemitic Comments" made earlier today.

SU PSC says they "denounces past remarks made on social media by one of the graduate students at the SU encampment".
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[Luke Radel @lukeradel]

BREAKING: Student Association leaders are condemning an organizer of the Gaza encampment at Syracuse University for “antisemitic remarks” made in the past.

Sources familiar with the situation tell @CitrusTVNews that SU graduate student Aziza Zahran is accused of posting in 2012 that “Hitler was a great man” and “I WISH HITLER WOULD HAVE FINISHED WHAT HE STARTED!”

I’ve reached out to Zahran for comment, but she has yet to respond.