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2025-06-29 Fifth Column
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Grand jury indicts Yassin Terou, 11 others more than a year after UT protests calling for Gaza ceasefire
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[WBIR] The indictments come more than a year after two different protests on UT's campus ended in several arrests.
A Knox County grand jury indicted a prominent Knoxville restaurateur and several others for criminal trespassing more than a year after they participated in peaceful protests on the University of Tennessee's campus.
Yassin Terou, who owns Yassin's Falafel House in Knoxville, and nine others are facing criminal trespassing charges for participating in the "Nakba Day Vigil" on May 15, 2024, at UT's campus.
UT police cuffed Terou and others outside the law school after a group participating in the vigil was warned they were in an unauthorized area and told to leave. Terou said he tried to speak with police and asked if they could quickly use the area to mourn Palestinians killed and communities uprooted during the Nakba.
According to the arrest report, the group had been assigned a space for the event immediately across the street on Cumberland Avenue outside the Student Union Plaza, which had been reserved until 10 p.m. UTPD said the group did not leave the unreserved space outside the law school and were given two warnings to leave before they took them into custody.
Following his arrest, Terou filed a complaint with UTPD about the arrest, claiming officers aggravated existing nerve damage during the arrest, which caused his arm to need a sling. He spent part of the night in the hospital after he was arrested. UTPD said it conducted an internal investigation and found no policy violations were committed.
WBIR 10News reached out to Terou's attorney. The attorney said he was out of town on a humanitarian mission, but said he was "disappointed it is necessary" after she told him about the indictment:
Two others were charged with criminal trespassing for participating in peaceful protests on UT's campus on May 2, 2024, to raise awareness of the ongoing attacks in Gaza and to stand in solidarity with Palestinians. The two were not students at UT and are scheduled to be arraigned in court on July 16.
The following people were indicted, records show:
- Zanne Soliz – criminal trespassing
- Yassin Terou – criminal trespassing
- Layla Soliz – criminal trespassing
- Stephen Wilhelm – criminal trespassing
- Rachel Tanon – criminal trespassing
- Theodoros Kyriakopoulos – criminal trespassing
- Sophia Ellis – criminal trespassing
- David M. Murray – criminal trespassing
- Hezekiah McDonald – criminal trespassing
- Andreas Bastias – criminal trespassing
- Jessica McGill – criminal trespassing (from the May 2 protest)
- Wesley McCool – criminal trespassing (from the May 2 protest)
Seven other UT students were taken into custody and cited during the May 2 protests. UT said the seven were sanctioned for violating university policy over the use of outdoor space.
| More academic hating for Iran — a few stories I happened across since 6/23: |
Academics Who Call For Iranian Attacks on America
[HotAir] What does it say that a professor at Georgetown University--an Episcopalian, no less--is calling for Iran to strike US bases in the Middle East?
At first, it would seem an odd flex until you understand that it is part of the "decolonization" effort that we hear so much about. After all, the very same people who argue that America is evil and must be destroyed are deeply invested in open borders and unlimited immigration into the United States. If the US is so racist and cruel, why would every Mahmoud, Mohammed, and Jose want to come here as "refugees" from countries they purport to love so deeply?
The names:
California State University Professor Dr. David Yaghoubian
UChicago professor Alireza Doostdar, whose brother is in prison for spying for Iran
Princeton refuses to punish masked students who hurled slurs at Jews
[CampusReform] Princeton University has yet to punish anti-Israel demonstrators for disrupting an April event at the school’s campus that featured a former Israeli politician.
At the April 7 protest, around 250 protesters called former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett a 'war criminal,' referred to Jewish students as 'inbreds,' and demanded they return to Europe.
Antisemitic law student at U of Florida awarded for paper defending white supremacy
A University of Florida law student who posted that Jews must be “abolished by any means necessary” won an award for a paper in which he argued that the Constitution applies solely to white people.
The honor for an avowed white supremacist and antisemite has roiled the campus at the public university, in a state where a 2023 law prevents state funding for university programs that advocate for “diversity, equity and inclusion or promote or engage in political or social activism.”
Preston Damsky, 29, received the “book award” for a paper he wrote for a class last fall. In the paper, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for non-white citizens and orders to kill “criminal infiltrators at the border,” according to the New York Times.
The award for the paper was given to Damsky by Federal Judge John L. Badalamenti, a Trump administration appointee who taught Damsky’s class.
The law school’s interim dean, Merritt McAlister, initially defended Damsky’s accolade, invoking “institutional neutrality,” arguing in an email to the law school community that professors must not engage in “viewpoint discrimination” according to the Times. 
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