During the 1960s and 1970s, the Palestinian Revolution captured the imaginations of millions worldwide who were also fighting colonial systems and imperialist interests in their countries. This paper will examine how the Palestinian Revolutionary zealous impacted student activism on University campuses, taking the United States, and specifically Washington D.C., as its case study. I will argue that the Palestinian Revolution, and specifically during the assaults that culminated in the events of Black September in Jordan in 1970, had politicized and radicalized student activism on different campuses. In Washington D.C., Palestinian and Arab students forged links with each other and stood in solidarity with other student associations fighting colonialism and racism in their respective contexts. Their actions on campus became bolder, more visible, and confrontational. Alliances between Arab, black, indigenous, and latino student associations were formed. Based on accounts in oral history interviews I have conducted, the silence that had captured their campuses after the 1967 defeat had finally been broken. My interviewees have mentioned that after the 1967 military defeat, activism on their campus was limited. They described a silence on campus that was broken with the emergence of the Palestinian resistance and a visible politicization after the resistance received its first attack in 1970. Many students considered the Palestinian resistance as their only hope in liberating Palestine. It was seen as a revolutionary force that also fought for socio-political and economic change. The attack on it, especially by an Arab regime, meant an attack on their future dreams and aspirations. This assault on the revolution was also seen as an attempt to liquidate the resistance and a step to garner US imperialism in the region and Israel’s colonial interest in Palestine. This has intensified student activism and their anti-colonial and anti-imperialist rhetoric. The politicization of student activism as a direct consequence of the Black September events is not unique to the US context. Rather, such politicization happened on other campuses in Beirut and Cairo. However, the US context illuminates a particular kind of anti-imperialist solidarity that emerged amongst students.