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In May 2024, peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters at the University of Virginia (UVa) demonstrated on the campus. The protesters organized an anti-war occupation on university grounds in support of Palestinian nationalism in the context of the mass death and displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians during the Israel–Hamas war.
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.
On April 26, students at Virginia Tech set up an encampment outside the Graduate Life Center. [545] [546] Protestors called on the Virginia Tech Foundation to disclose its investments and to divest from Israeli companies, and denounced an antisemitic harassment campaign led by Hokies for Israel and Hillel at Virginia Tech.
Classes may be ending at many colleges and universities, but the student antiwar movement shows no signs of slowing down this summer.
Campus protests are as old as universities themselves. The first university at Bologna, Italy, in fact was the creation of students who sought independence from the city’s governors.
Protesters at Brown University, notably, disbanded their encampment voluntarily, and peacefully, after the school engaged with the activists and agreed to consider some of their demands.
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% ...
Sam Nahins, an Air Force veteran and graduate student studying creative writing at Columbia, said many members of the school’s community are losing patience with the protesters’ antics ...