Pro-Hamas Mob Occupies Rhode Island School of Design Building
The school moved classes located in the building to another building for Tuesday.
Probably the first of many college posts today.
The Rhode Island School of Design (RSID) Students for Justice in Palestine captured the school’s Providence Washington Hall and renamed it Fathi Ghaben Place.
Artist Fathi Ghaben died in February. He painted a mural of PLO founder Yasser Arafat surrounded by children.
BREAKING: Students from the Rhode Island School of Design have taken over a room in RISD Administrative building and have barricaded it. After doing so, they renamed the building "Fathi Ghaben Place." Ghaben was a "revolutionary artist." pic.twitter.com/8NF2QX1UvR
— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 7, 2024
Masked activists hide behind a glass door as they speak to a crowd at Rhode Island School of Design.
The activists shout:
“Disclose, divest we will not stop we will not rest.” pic.twitter.com/LLgW477TpC
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 6, 2024
The school said:
Today we are relocating classes that are scheduled to take place in the space the students are located. While we have and continue to affirm our students’ right to freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and peaceful assembly, we also respect the rights of the many students who want to attend their classes. We have asked the demonstrating students to relocate out of respect for their peers’ academic experience.
“While we have and continue to affirm our students’ right to freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and peaceful assembly, we also respect the rights of the many students who want to attend their classes,” said RISD spokeswoman Jaime Marland.
“Disclose, Divest, Defend Gaza.” “Free Free Palestine. “We need a crowd to force the university to divest, not arrest.”
Blah, blah, blah.
- “Provides total fiscal transparency of RISD’s investment portfolio”
- “Commits to a holistic divestment from companies, corporations, and institutions that are implicated in sustaining Israeli Apartheid”
- “Establishes a student oversight committee for future investments”
- “Publicly condemns the Israeli Occupation of Gaza as a genocide.”
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Goodness, the facade of that building reeks of classic western civilization. They should put their skills to replacing it with something more suitable. To start, replace those columns with a shanasheel.
Islamofascists don’t build; they destroy.
We already have “revisionist” architecture throughout the country. It’s called Brutalism.
Bring in the firehoses, dogs and tear gas and give the little darlings what they deserve. Otherwise they are going to destroy America. Their kind of filth does not belong in the USA.
Another day another protest. Yet we are to believe these protests are organizing and raising funding so deep in the shadows that the FBI cannot hear or see them. The same FBI that is world renowned for sniffing out the most complex money trails and found with ease the identity of thousands of citizens who were in a particular geographical location on January 6, 2021.
These are not mobs, they are the handiwork of our government.
Burn the flags, burn the posters, burn the kaffiyas.
until the civilized take on the uncivilized with uncivilized methods
the hoards will rule
maga!!!!!
“I actually met a lot of Jewish students who are in the encampment, and I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe,” Omar told Fox 5 New York while there. “We should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for
all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
Bacon’s resolution text said Omar’s “slanderous comments against Jewish students could inflame violence against the Jewish community.”
On that train all graphite and glitter /
Undersea by rail /
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris /
(more leisure for artists everywhere)…
Is that Constitutional to move classes to another building? I thought if a building was occupied, you had to cancel all the classes at the school.
A student oversight committee on investments in the endowment? Uhm, NO. It’s not their money, and they get no voice in how it’s invested or used.
Virtue signalling ,entitled spoiled brat morons who are clueless about the complexity of the Middle east, but need to protest any group they perceive as ‘victims’. These people squealing ‘Death to America’ at universities are the same ones whining that American taxpayers should be responsible for paying off their student loans.
Press release from GWU prof about torts n suits possible from shenanigans like these, via Instapundit:
https://instapundit.com/646263/
That’s an interesting list. I do wonder, maybe now do sustained street “protests” and administrations inclined to “let it burn”, and leave them “space to riot.”
These “protesters” have gone pretty far past convincing, to coercing, and even conscripting. Well-reported that their clients — Hamas, in Gaza right now — go there, as policy: no convincing, just play along or they’ll kill you, too. And no passive support: you’re conscripted into their operations, because you’re handy.
Interesting fit with the idea in previous link from a lecture on Burke vs. Paine on natural rights I heard this morning: One concept of “government” is to hold space within which people can exercise their intrinsic rights. That’s Paine, per the lecture. Attributed to Burke is the notion that the idea of “rights” independent of a society, is nonsense — its never happened in practice, and can’t.
Well, they both got a promotion on my reading backlog. Meanwhile, gotta go look whether that Princeton “Great Minds of the West” series includes them. Gotta include Burke, I think.