💠Dozens of Pro-Palestine Students Arrested at Penn, MIT💠
Sunday 12 May 2024 / Year 1959 / Number 12252
💠Dozens of Pro-Palestine Students Arrested at Penn, MIT💠
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Police dismantled protest camps and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, in the latest crackdowns on demonstrations roiling U.S. campuses.
Philadelphia officers in riot gear pushed reporters away from the encampment at the University of Pennsylvania before tearing down tents and tossing the belongings of protesters in a trash truck, the student newspaper reported. About 33 people were arrested on the Ivy League campus, Penn’s public safety department said.
A similar scene unfolded simultaneously at MIT near Boston, where student journalists reported that riot police arrested at least 10 student protesters before flattening the encampment and discarding their belongings.
The dawn raids were the latest efforts by school and local authorities to end such demonstrations at dozens of universities around the country.
Many university leaders have called the encampments safety hazards and sought to end them ahead of May commencement ceremonies, which draw large crowds of outside visitors to campuses.
Officials at Harvard University on Friday began issuing suspensions to students who were involved in an encampment on the Ivy League school’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus, according to an Instagram post by the school’s Palestine Solidarity Committee.
On Monday, Interim Harvard President Alan Garber said the encampment was disrupting the educational environment as students were taking final exams and preparing for commencement. He said participants faced suspension, restricting them from campus and possibly barring them from taking exams and residing in university housing.
“Disciplinary procedures and administrative referrals for placing protesters on involuntary leave continue to move forward,” a school spokesperson said in a statement on Friday, without specifying the number of students suspended.
The protesting students are demanding a ceasefire in Israel’s invasion of Gaza and have demanded their schools divest from companies with ties to Israel.
One New York City school affiliated with Columbia University - where protests inspired the nationwide wave of demonstrations - said on Thursday that its board of trustees had endorsed students’ divestment calls.
💠Dozens of Pro-Palestine Students Arrested at Penn, MIT💠
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Police dismantled protest camps and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, in the latest crackdowns on demonstrations roiling U.S. campuses.
Philadelphia officers in riot gear pushed reporters away from the encampment at the University of Pennsylvania before tearing down tents and tossing the belongings of protesters in a trash truck, the student newspaper reported. About 33 people were arrested on the Ivy League campus, Penn’s public safety department said.
A similar scene unfolded simultaneously at MIT near Boston, where student journalists reported that riot police arrested at least 10 student protesters before flattening the encampment and discarding their belongings.
The dawn raids were the latest efforts by school and local authorities to end such demonstrations at dozens of universities around the country.
Many university leaders have called the encampments safety hazards and sought to end them ahead of May commencement ceremonies, which draw large crowds of outside visitors to campuses.
Officials at Harvard University on Friday began issuing suspensions to students who were involved in an encampment on the Ivy League school’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus, according to an Instagram post by the school’s Palestine Solidarity Committee.
On Monday, Interim Harvard President Alan Garber said the encampment was disrupting the educational environment as students were taking final exams and preparing for commencement. He said participants faced suspension, restricting them from campus and possibly barring them from taking exams and residing in university housing.
“Disciplinary procedures and administrative referrals for placing protesters on involuntary leave continue to move forward,” a school spokesperson said in a statement on Friday, without specifying the number of students suspended.
The protesting students are demanding a ceasefire in Israel’s invasion of Gaza and have demanded their schools divest from companies with ties to Israel.
One New York City school affiliated with Columbia University - where protests inspired the nationwide wave of demonstrations - said on Thursday that its board of trustees had endorsed students’ divestment calls.
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