Students at Bowdoin College Clear Anti-Israel Encampment After Threat of Suspension
“At this time, the details of the final terms reached between the SJP protesters and the administration remain unclear.”
The encampment and building occupation at Bowdoin College has ended after just a few days. It’s amazing what you can accomplish with the threat of real consequences.
BREAKING: The Bowdoin Encampment students have been suspended by the administration. They have until 5 pm to "vacate campus." pic.twitter.com/GHwNGxXi5x
— Stu (@thestustustudio) February 10, 2025
This article from the Bowdoin Orient paints a much more positive picture:
SJP encampment clears after protesters and College reach agreement
Just before 6 p.m. on Monday, the final Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) protestors remaining in the Smith Union encampment walked out to a large, cheering crowd gathered on Dudley Coe Quad after reaching an agreement with College administrators. The encampment lasted for a total of four days, beginning on Thursday evening.
At this time, the details of the final terms reached between the SJP protesters and the administration remain unclear. However, according to protesters familiar with the negotiations, conversations between the two groups on Monday centered around the disciplinary process for students in the encampment, responsibility for shutting down Smith Union and discussions about violations of Title VI policies.
Students inside Smith Union communicated to the crowd outside the building that the negotiation did not result in the College agreeing to the terms of Bowdoin Solidarity Referendum, the chief aim of the encampment.
“[College administrators] have agreed to understand a context of good faith for the students who have engaged in this action,” lead encampment organizer Olivia Kenney ’25 told protesters Monday night. “The College has finally come and agreed to work with us in good faith toward a conclusion to this action.”
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Finally someone who gets how you get things done in the Middle East. Strength and actual consequences. Not strongly worded letters, UN resolutions, endless aid with no strings attached nor management of where it goes to, pandering, and phony red lines.
Now, as a life lesson, suspend them for the rest of the academic year.
The problem here, though, is that on pretty much every campus, the only differences between the admin and students is about the same as found in different factions of Hamas. I am fairly certain the college supports their actions right up until some influential donor calls and asks WT actual F? Half of the faculty were likely huge protestors against Regan and Bush in their younger years.
So Olivia Kenney ’25 jeopardizes her senior year by doing this? That ain’t too smart.
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I guess they don’t teach history at Bowdoin College. If they did, the morons who are protesting would know that there is not, and has never been, a nation called “Palestine,” and that there is not, and has never been, a “Palestinian” people. Those who are today referred to as “Palestinians” are, in fact, migrants and the descendants of migrants, from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and so forth who migrated to Israel to take the jobs created by the Israelis when they drained the swamps and irrigated the desert and turned what was barren land into fertile ground.