Pro-Palestinian student activism does not unfold in ordinary time. It moves through histories of rupture and return, through the long shadow of the Nakba and the ever-pressing demand for liberation. This project explores how temporality—how time is felt, narrated, and politicized—shapes the strategies, endurance, and imagination of pro-Palestinian student organizers in the U.S. On campuses marked by surveillance, repression, and institutional delay, these students invoke a future that defies postponement and a past that refuses erasure.
Drawing on interviews, political theory, poetry, and digital archives, this research traces how student activists make time itself a site of resistance. Their slogans, stories, and silences reveal a politics not only of protest but of persistence—of carrying memory forward and insisting on futures that universities and political institutions try to foreclose. Rather than viewing pro-Palestinian organizing as episodic or reactive, I argue that it is fundamentally temporal: a struggle over how history is told, and who is allowed to claim the future.
By centering the pro-Palestinian student movement and its relationship to time, this project contributes to broader conversations on youth-led movements, decolonial futures, and the poetics of resistance. It asks what it means to be a student in a world where your time is temporary—but your struggle is generational.