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On April 25, 2024, a student protest began at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to protest the administration's investments in Israel. The occupation, self-titled as the 'Palestine Solidarity Encampment', [5] was a part of pro-Palestine protests on university campuses campaigning for divestment from Israel. [6]
Here is what we know about the last couple of weeks on campus, based on interviews, recordings, social media and documents.
1:40 a.m. Police officers in riot gear arrive, and some counterprotesters begin to leave. But police do not immediately break up the clashes at the camp, which continued for at least an hour ...
Two days later, however, UCLA declared the encampment unlawful and directed campus members to leave or face discipline. Read more:UCLA struggles to recover after 200 arrested, pro-Palestinian camp ...
More than 200 people were arrested Thursday morning as police moved into the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, dismantling tents and pushing out protesters in a clash that lasted hours.
While on the other side of the city, students in the USC encampment were arrested en masse by LAPD, at UCLA, students and others inside the metal-barricaded camp were left to protest day and night ...
On April 29, nearly 200 protesters, organized by SJP, held a rally in front of the Kellogg library at California State University San Marcos. [123] Another rally organized by SJP took place on May 9. Pro-Israeli counter-protesters tried to engage with the pro-Palestinian group, but the protesters did not engage and the rally ended peacefully. [124]
Taylor Gee, a 30-year-old pro-Palestinian protester and UCLA law student, said the police operation on Thursday felt "especially galling" to many protesters given the slow police response a night ...