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More than 200 Brown University students gathered outside University Hall on Dec. 11, 2023, while roughly 40 students sat inside, all of them demanding that the school divest from weapons ...
Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses started in 2023 and escalated in April 2024, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wider Israel–Hamas war protests. The escalation began after mass arrests at the Columbia University campus occupation , led by anti-Zionist groups, in which protesters demanded the ...
On November 25, 2023, three 20-year-old students of Palestinian descent were shot and injured in Burlington, Vermont. [2] The students, who were visiting Burlington for Thanksgiving break, [3] were wearing keffiyehs to show solidarity with Palestine amid the ongoing war in Gaza when they were shot near the University of Vermont. [4]
Notable protests and vigils were held in Atlanta, Bridgeport, Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Tucson from January 20–22, 2023. [193] Protests in Atlanta on January 21, 2023, briefly turned violent as some demonstrators threw objects, set police car on fire, and smashed windows of bank buildings with hammers. [194]
The offensive is a direct response to the deadly terrorist attack leveled by Hamas against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Protests on college campuses have called on universities to cut support for ...
Several college and university campuses across the U.S. have seen similar protest encampments in recent weeks as the war in Gaza continues, sparked by the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack that killed ...
Following the clearing of the Brown University encampment, protests were held at the Rhode Island School of Design and Salve Regina University on May 2. [426] [427] In addition, a protest was held at Providence College the day before. [428] On May 6, protesters staged a sit-in at a Rhode Island School of Design building. [429]
On May 15, members of United Auto Workers Local 4811, the union representing 48,000 graduate students on 10 campuses in the University of California system voted to authorize a strike because the university unfairly change policies and discriminated against students who were exercising their right to free speech and created an unsafe work environment by allowing attacks on protesters.