Review Special Coverage: "Free Palestine" Rally on Campus Share: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Sunday, about 150 Stanford students gathered on Stern Field for a âFree Palestineâ rally. After learning about the event, which was widely advertised with flyers on campus, the Review dispatched a seasoned protest correspondent for coverage. In attendance at the rally was ASSU Vice-President Cricket Bidleman, who was criticized by Palestinians and activists last week for an insufficiently one-sided ASSU statement. The ASSU statement was "controversial" because it expressed support for both Israelis and Palestinians. Rally speakers said the statement was ânot enough.â The first student speaker identified herself as a student athlete and a Palestinian who grew up in Jordan, but moved to the United States as a kid. She encouraged rally-goers to âreimagineâ their language. Instead of using terms like âconflictâ and âwar,â she told people to choose âcolonizationâ and âoccupation.â