Schools in Arizona, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have cracked down on tent cities
More than 40 people were arrested on Friday as authorities moved to dismantle pro-Palestinian encampments at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Arizona, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Protesters against the Israeli war on Gaza have set up tent cities across major American universities over the past three weeks, starting at Columbia University in New York City.
Around 4am on Friday, police in riot gear surrounded the encampment at MIT, giving protesters 15 minutes to leave. The ten students that chose to stay were arrested, according to MIT President Sally Kornbluth. The group of protesters who gathered outside the camp to chant “pro-Palestinian slogans” was dispersed by 6am, the school said.
“This is only going to make us stronger. They can’t arrest the movement,” Quinn Perian, an undergraduate student and organizer for MIT Jews for Ceasefire, told AP. “MIT would rather arrest and suspend some students than they would end their complicity with the genocide going in Gaza.”
Perian vowed the students won’t back down until MIT “agrees to cut ties with the Israeli military.” (more...)
Police remove Pro-Palestine camps at three US universities
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