The camp at Sproul Plaza was peacefully disbanded following talks between protesters and administrators.
(The Center Square) – University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce is calling for a pro-Palestine encampment on campus to be dismantled as vandalism and violent rhetoric increase. Since the initial encampment was established at the beginning of May, the number of tents has grown to a few dozen, with protesters that are not enrolled at UW joining in. Demonstrators initially demanded UW divest from Israel, cut ties with Boeing and end repression of...
Some universities have pursued negotiations with student encampments, while others used police force
An encampment launched by Students of Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California Santa Cruz has issued starkly antisemitic demands that include the university severing ties with Jewish community organizations.
Even after UC Berkeley officials struck a deal with student leaders of the university's longstanding pro-Palestinian encampment, a group of protesters took over an abandoned building on campus Wednesday, and some were later arrested. The protesters occupied Anna Head Alumnae Hall, a condemned building on campus that they unofficially renamed for a Palestinian child killed this year during Israeli military operations in Gaza. The building takeover began Wednesday, one day after demonstrators...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Encampments and protests on university campuses are persisting in the U.S., even as one prominent display of Palestinian support voluntarily comes down. The movement that began stateside has since spread to universities in Canada and Europe, as students demand their educational institutions divest funds from Israeli-linked corporations
A faculty member who said she was in the negotiation room said UChicago made it very clear that midnight was the deadline for students to remove their encampment before the school takes action.
A group of Pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up a tent encampment on the Roeterseiland at the campus of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on Monday. The demonstrators have called on the UvA, Vrije Universiteit (VU) and the Amsterdam University College (AUC) to cut ties with academic institutions in Israel.
Pro-Palestinian activists have launched encampments at more than 70 campuses to bring attention to Israel’s monthslong military assault on the Gaza Strip and to demand that schools divest from companies doing business with the country. The nationwide movement has led to clashes with police and more than 2,300 protesters being arrested in the past few weeks, according to an NBC News tally. Now, as many students face legal and disciplinary action and universities are reassessing commencement...
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters claimed they released 500 cockroaches, smashed windows and sprayed red paint at the University of California Office of the President in downtown Oakland on Sunday. A post on Indybay, authored by “sacred black and red,” identified the writers as the people that vandalized the building “in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance.” Referring to the group as “anti-colonial anarchists and communists,” the post said they used a “fire extinguisher filled with...
A group of radical pro-Palestinian activists took over a building at the University of California Berkeley on Wednesday, just hours after administrators and protesters struck a deal to end a weeks-long "encampment."
Several people were detained Wednesday afternoon as a Pro-Palestinian protest escalated, prompting a massive response from law enforcement.