Anti-Israel Protesters Arrested at U. Wisconsin After Disrupting Regents Meeting
“attendees were made aware that disruptions risked violating state law and could result in arrests”
These anti-Israel students think they own these schools, but they’re going to be gone in a few years. They need a reality check.
Campus Reform reports:
Seven anti-Israel demonstrators arrested for disrupting University of Wisconsin regents meeting
Anti-Israel protesters interrupted a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting on June 6, demanding that the UW System divest from Israel. Seven demonstrators were reportedly arrested during the disruption.
The protest was organized by the UW-Milwaukee “Popular University for Palestine,” which also previously led the encampment that was established on UW-Milwaukee’s campus.
The UW-Milwaukee “Popular University for Palestine” group describes itself in its Instagram bio as “[s]tudents, alumni, faculty, staff, & community organizers calling on @uwmilwaukee to end all ties with the apartheid, settler-colonial state of Israel.”
During a Regents Business and Finance Committee meeting, around 12 protesters began chanting against the “colonial apartheid regime of Israel.”
“Over 40,000 people have been killed by weapons supplied by the U.S., bought by U.S. dollars,” one protestor said. “Not another nickel! Not another dime! No more money for Israel’s crime.”
UW-Milwaukee spokesperson Angelica Duria reportedly said that although students have the right to free speech, they do not have the right to be disruptive.
“UWM respects and supports people’s right to free speech and to engage in peaceful demonstrations,” Duria told The Daily Cardinal. “However, attendees were made aware that disruptions risked violating state law and could result in arrests.”
The Popular University for Palestine took to Instagram to celebrate the protest at the regents’ meeting later that day.
“On the morning of Thursday, June 6th, members of the UW-Milwaukee Popular University for Palestine coalition attended and disrupted the business and finance committee open session of the June UW System Board of Regents meeting,” the group stated. “The purpose of this disruption was to renew our calls for accountability and representation of student voices on the topic of UW System’s [sic] complicity in the genocide happening in occupied Palestine.”
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Just being arrested isn’t good enough. They need to be charged and prosecuted. But the left wants to give most protestors participation trophies – unless they’re Republicans.
Heigh ho, heigh ho,
It’s off to jail they go
So? All charges will be dropped and they will be free to do it again. Apparently it has not crossed the minds of the Regents at UW-Milwaukee to ban the group from campus and expel those doing this type of thing. Trump was right in that many cities in WI have been driven into the ground by Progressive Mayors, Milwaukee is front and center