Scores of police officers converged on UC Irvine on Wednesday as a pro-Palestinian demonstration escalated, with protesters occupying and barricading the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, which is near their encampment. The escalation of the protest began about 2:30 p.m., according to a university spokesperson. School officials have sent out two alerts telling students to shelter in place. UCI said “a group of several hundred protesters” entered the building.
UC Berkeley's Saturday morning graduation ceremony was punctuated by the chanting of hundreds of pro-Palestine student protesters whose demonstration caused the event to be paused and delayed several times. What started as several small groups of students holding Palestinian flags and chanting soon grew to a crowd of hundreds, as more and more graduating seniors left their seats in the bleachers and took over an entire section of California Memorial Stadium, calling for an end to both the...
Several people were detained Wednesday afternoon as a Pro-Palestinian protest escalated, prompting a massive response from law enforcement.
A Pro-Palestinian protest at UC Irvine has escalated, prompting calls for
By Taylor Romine and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Police detained at least a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California, Irvine as they cleared an encampment in front of a lecture hall on Wednesday. “A group of several hundred protestors entered the UC Irvine campus and began surrounding” the school’s Physical Sciences Lecture
By Taylor Romine and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Police detained at least a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California, Irvine as they cleared an encampment in front of a lecture hall on Wednesday. “A group of several hundred protestors entered the UC Irvine campus and began surrounding” the school’s Physical Sciences Lecture
By Taylor Romine and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Police detained at least a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California, Irvine as they cleared an encampment in front of a lecture hall on Wednesday. “A group of several hundred protestors entered the UC Irvine campus and began surrounding” the school’s Physical Sciences Lecture
Police converged on UC Irvine on Wednesday as a pro-Palestinian protest escalated. Protesters took over the Physical Sciences Classroom Building, a two-story building near their encampment. The escalation of the protest began about 2:30 p.m., according to a university spokesperson. School officials have sent out two alerts telling students to shelter in place. "Avoid the area," read a campus alert. "If you are in the area shelter in place for your safety until further notice." No classes were...
The latest school to be hit by pro-Hamas protests is UC Irvine, where students took over a building, built barricades, chanted “from the river to the sea” and other antisemitic slogans, and shielded themselves with umbrellas. In other words, the usual.
The pro-Palestine protest, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, was held on Tottenham Court Road earlier today, with activists slamming Barclays' 'complicity' in Israel's conflict with Gaza.
Hundreds of pro-Israel students and community members gathered to protest “terrorist support” on campus Sunday afternoon, as pro-Palestine demonstrators congregated to “defend” the student encampment at White Plaza. Though protestors chanted and carried flags on both sides, both groups dispersed without incident after several hours.
Irvine Mayor Farrah N. Khan wants it to be known that she does not approve of the quick work the joint task force of Orange County Police Officers performed in quelling Wednesday's pro-Hamas unrest at the