Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College Form Encampment, Occupy Campus Building
“This action makes Bowdoin SJP the first known group of students to form a pro-Palestine encampment on a college campus this year.”
Be sure to check out the video below to see these students chanting in unison like zombies.
The Bowdoin Orient reports:
Students for Justice in Palestine form encampment in Smith Union
Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) occupied the first floor of Smith Union Thursday night to protest the College’s investment practices and President Donald Trump’s stated plan for U.S. “ownership” of Gaza. This action makes Bowdoin SJP the first known group of students to form a pro-Palestine encampment on a college campus this year.
This comes just days after Trump announced plans, speaking at a conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to “permanently” resettle the roughly two million people living in Gaza in order to redevelop it into a “Riviera of the Middle East.”
The encampment comes nearly a year after Bowdoin students voted in favor of the SJP-organized Bowdoin Solidarity Referendum, a resolution demanding that the College take an institutional stand against the scholasticide and that it divest from defense-focused funds. At the beginning of the fall semester, the College established its Ad Hoc Committee on Investments and Responsibility in response to the referendum but has yet to alter its investment practices or offer an institutional statement.
Lead SJP organizer Olivia Kenney ’25 said protesters plan to occupy Smith Union “until the demands of the Bowdoin Solidarity Referendum are met” by the Board of Trustees, which was actively convening for its scheduled meetings in Boston as students erected the encampment.
“Trump has vowed his unequivocal support for Israel’s genocide, most recently calling for the United States to ethnically cleanse and ‘take over’ Gaza,” SJP’s official press release reads. “Today, we say enough. It is unacceptable that our endowment and our tax payer money bankrolls the elimination of Palestinian life.”
BREAKING: An encampment has formed at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Students are occupying the Smith Union building and have turned it into the Shaban-Al Dalou Union Encampment. pic.twitter.com/CB72hWRTeO
— Stu (@thestustustudio) February 7, 2025
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The university needs to take a hardline with them. If they are students, expel them. If they are not students arrest them for criminal trespass.
Easy fix: Shut off the water. gas, and electricity to the building. Their occupation won’t last more than a couple of days. In fact, the males will quickly leave just to stop hearing the crying and whining from the females.