Pro-Hamas Mob Occupies Rhode Island School of Design Building

MARY CHASTAIN MAY 7, 2024 9:39 AM

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.

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.

Demands:

• “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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