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Brown protesters arrested, Haverford students end sit-in as war tensions roil campuses
2023-12-14
Good to see some schools are starting to dish out consequences for the hateful little shits.
[IsraelTimes] Amid Israel-Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
war, universities say pro-Paleostinian demonstrators are hindering fellow students, staff, faculty and normal function of the schools

Dozens of student protesters at Brown University were arrested, and a weeklong sit-in at Haverford College ended Wednesday under threat of disciplinary action as US college campuses continue to be roiled by tensions over the Israel-Hamas war sparked by the Paleostinian terror group’s October 7 shock onslaught on Israel.

Brown’s police department charged 41 students with trespass when they refused to leave the University Hall administrative building after business hours on Monday, according to officials at the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island.

Earlier that day, protesters had met with Brown President Christina H. Paxson and demanded that Brown divest "its endowment from Israeli military occupation," the school said in a statement on the arrests. Students were photographed and fingerprinted at the administration building before their release Monday night. Other students waited outside to cheer them on.

It was the second round of arrests at Brown in a little over a month as college administrators around the country try to reconcile the rights of students to protest with the schools’ imperative to maintain order.

Twenty students protesting Israel’s military operation in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
were arrested for trespass on Nov. 8, although Brown dropped the charges on Nov. 27, two days after a Paleostinian student at Brown, Hisham Awartani, and two other Paleostinian college students were shot in Burlington, Vermont.

Brown said Wednesday that while protest is "a necessary and acceptable means of expression on campus," students may not "interfere with the normal functions of the University." The school warned of even more severe consequences if students fail to heed restrictions on the time, place and manner of protests.

"The disruption to secure buildings is not acceptable, and the University is prepared to escalate the level of criminal charges for future incidents of students occupying secure buildings," Brown said.

At Haverford, outside Philadelphia, student activists began their sit-in on Dec. 6 and occupied Founders Hall, which houses administrative offices. They are demanding that college President Wendy Raymond publicly call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Hundreds of students participated over the last week, taking deliveries of food and setting up study spaces. Professors even dropped in to teach, according to student organizers.

The college asserted that the protesters were hindering fellow students, staff and faculty, and told the sit-in organizers Tuesday night that "they must discontinue actions that impede student learning and the functions of the College, which include the sit-in inside Founders Hall," Raymond and the college dean said in a campus message Wednesday morning.

Student organizers told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that college officials threatened to haul protesters before a disciplinary panel if they didn’t leave the hall. About 50 students defied the warning and slept in the building overnight before protesters held one last rally Wednesday morning and delivered letters to Raymond before disbanding.

The threat of discipline played a role in the decision to end the sit-in, according to Julian Kennedy, a 21-year-old junior and organizer with Haverford Students for Peace. But he said organizers also concluded that the sit-in would not compel Haverford to meet the group’s demands.

"At this point, we just see that this college as an institution is broken and has lost its values," said Kennedy, accusing Haverford of betraying its Quaker pacifist roots.

Ellie Baron, a 20-year-old junior and protest organizer, said the group will pressure Haverford in other ways.

"Just because the sit-in is over, doesn’t mean our efforts are over. We are extraordinarily upset our president refuses to call for a cease-fire," Baron said.

A Paleostinian American student at Haverford, Kinnan Abdalhamid, was also among the three Paleostinian college students who were shot over Thanksgiving break in Vermont. The suspected gunman was arrested and has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to three counts of attempted murder. Officials are investigating whether the shooting, which seriously injured one of the other students, was a hate crime.

Abdalhamid, who took part in Wednesday’s rally, said in a statement that "our presence here is a powerful message that we will not stay silent, we will not be passive observers."

Universities across the US have been accused of failing to protect Jewish students amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout from Israel’s intensifying war in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel.



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[IsraelTimes] I’ve been a professor here for 30 years and discovering how mainstream the double standard is has been a rude awakening.
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Posted by:trailing wife

#6  if offered a choice israelis or palestinians and you choose palestinians then IMO you are stupid and need to back to k-12.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-14 17:00  

#5  ^Where do you see males?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-14 08:00  

#4  I wonder how many males in that scruffy looking bunch expect to nail a coed or two.
Posted by: badanov   2023-12-14 07:44  

#3  ^Student Loan Forgiveness
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-14 06:35  

#2  
At $45,000+/- for just the Fall term.
I bet the parents aren't to overjoyed that their brats are costing them dearly and wasting it instead of studying.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-12-14 05:14  

#1  Brown, 41 students arrested. Brown enrollment: enrollment of Brown University degree candidates for Fall 2021 (October 15, 2022) was 10,737 FTE. The breakdown by school was as follows:The College
7,222 FTE; The Graduate School 2,920 FTE;
Warren Alpert Medical School 595 FTE.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355   2023-12-14 03:59  

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