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Last year’s Christmas at Bethlehem Bible College (BBC) inside the West Bank was lively. Faculty, staff, students, families, and friends from the community arrived on campus to celebrate the end ...
On April 25, students at University of Pennsylvania began an encampment to protest the ongoing Israel–Hamas war and to call for divestment from Israel. [1] [2] [3] The occupation, named the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment," [3] was part of a series of 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses. On May 10, the encampment was raided and ...
According to an Axios poll released on May 7, 2024, 8% of college students have participated in the protests. 34% blame Hamas, 19% blame Netanyahu, 12% blame the Israeli people, and 12% blame Biden for the destruction in Gaza. 81% of students supported holding protesters accountable for destroyed property and illegally occupied buildings, 67% ...
This is a list of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in 2024 since protests escalated on April 17, beginning with the Columbia University campus occupation.As of May 6, student protests have occurred in 45 out of 50 states in the United States, and the District of Columbia, with encampments, occupations, walkouts or sit-ins on almost 140 campuses.
Flickering tea lights illuminated the blue-and-white Israeli flag as hundreds of UCLA students and other supporters of Israel gathered for an evening vigil at Bruin Plaza this week.
The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing Israel's military efforts in Gaza — and in some cases from Israel itself. Protests on many campuses have been orchestrated by coalitions of student groups , often including local chapters of organizations such as Students for Justice in ...
A series of protests at Ohio State University by pro-Palestinian demonstrators occurred on-campus in response to the Israel-Palestine conflict beginning on October 7, 2023. A solidarity encampment was constructed on OSU's South Oval on April 25, 2024, during which there were at least 36 arrests, [1] making for the largest en masse arrests on campus since the 1969–1970 Vietnam War protests.
On April 25, students at Haverford College set up an encampment, and two days later students at nearby Bryn Mawr College did the same. [406] [407] Students at University of Pittsburgh declared a "Liberation Zone" on the lawn outside the Cathedral of Learning and made demands that the university declare and divest from investing in Israel.