Anti-Israel Students Establish ‘Liberation Zone’ in Harvard Yard
“Now more than ever, when Harvard most wants for us to be silent, we have a duty to speak out louder than ever. Free, free Palestine.”
What better way to show you oppose colonization than to take over a college campus?
The College Fix reports:
Pro-Palestinian students set up ‘liberation zone’ encampment in Harvard Yard
Pro-Palestinian students set up an anti-Israel encampment Wednesday in Harvard Yard despite the university issuing restrictions for the area all this week.
At one point, as many as 500 people participated in the protest, demanding “divestment” from Israel and urging the university to reverse its decision to suspend the Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, The Harvard Crimson reports. Many similar demonstrations have taken place on campuses across the country in the past week.
“We call on you to share our anger as a starting part to continue and constant mobilization,” one organizer told the crowd. “Now more than ever, when Harvard most wants for us to be silent, we have a duty to speak out louder than ever. Free, free Palestine.”
Afterward, students began setting up tents and sleeping bags on the lawn despite signs warning of disciplinary measures if they “bring in unauthorized structures such as tents or tables or block access to building entrances,” according to The Crimson.
A video on the Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee’s Instagram account shows students cheering loudly and beating drums as others rush to erect tents and place sleeping bags on the lawn.
According to The Crimson:
In a Monday interview, interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 declined to rule out using police in response to student protests, but said there would be a “very, very high bar” before their involvement. University officials have remained firmly in opposition to calls to boycott Israel.
The tents were set up as Harvard University Police Department officers watched, but they have not intervened thus far.
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So no cops? A “very high bar” not yet reached? Defund Harvard along with the rest that allow this garbage. Harvard Yard is a place people have to go through to get where they are going. There must be no intimidation there.
Civil rights lawsuit. Transfer as much of the university endowment to Jewish students and faculty as possible. This can be what ends our system of idolizing universities and allowing a defunct medieval style of learning to drain the pockets of our middle class, just to prepare to hold a job.
Time to “water the lawn”
You must be clairvoyant. The sprinkler system went off at 4 AM in 32 degree weather. Tents were soaked & several were flooded.
If they stay overnight and violate the campus regulations, trespass them and expel them.
Awesome. YAF should set a ‘Constitution zone’ on campus, where it’s actually respected. Unlike the rest of the school where it’s used to start fires.
How can students set up any “zone” on property they don’t own? Just like those idiots in Seattle, and earlier in New York (Occupy Wall Street)—they ended up getting shoo’ed away by police and many arrested to spend a few nights in jail. A good strip search and hot water/soap shower wouldn’t hurt them at all.
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