Anti-Israel Activists Arrested at Swarthmore in 2025 Demand All Charges be Dropped
“They did not hesitate to subject me, a low-income Black student, to both the most severe disciplinary sanctions ever imposed for student activism.”
No one is above the law. Isn’t that what the Left has been telling us for years now?
The College Fix reports:
Pro-Palestinian Swarthmore College activists arrested for 2025 encampment demand all charges be dropped
Nine pro-Palestinian Swarthmore College activists arrested last year for trespassing after they refused to vacate an encampment now want the local district attorney to drop all charges against them.
Swarthmore officials had “repeatedly warned” the so-called “Swarthmore 9” they had a May 3 (2025) 1 a.m. deadline to leave the premises or they’d face arrest. However, they decided to “sit down with their arms interlocked,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The nine, only two of whom are affiliated with the college, were thus slapped with misdemeanor charges for that decision, and for refusing to identify themselves to personnel.
They also allegedly scrawled “abhorrent statements celebrating violence and promoting hate.”
This past Tuesday, the nine “joined a rally and press conference” prior to their first appearance in court to rip Swarthmore for “choosing ‘violence’ over their ‘community,’” WHYY reports.
Soon-to-be senior Jace Boland (pictured) said at the presser that “Swarthmore College claims that they had no choice but to arrest us, that their hand was forced because we constituted a threat to a community they were trying to protect, but we know the truth. [It] lashed out against us in defense not of their community, but of their investments.”
In mid-April, Boland wrote an op-ed for the student paper The Phoenix in which he claimed he was “dragged” from the encampment by cops, and then “thrown into” a police vehicle “under the vindictive stares” of several college administrators.
Boland complained of being bound in “excruciatingly tight” zip-ties, “struggling […] to afford rent” after being “banned from campus,” and “shocked” by Swarthmore’s “vindictiveness” (“they did not hesitate to subject me, a low-income Black student, to both the most severe disciplinary sanctions ever imposed for student activism”).
Swarthmore Assistant Director of Media Relations Cara Anderson said the difference between the 2024 and 2025 pro-Palestinian encampments is that a majority of the latter’s was not comprised of Swarthmore students, and the school had “received an influx of complaints from other students, their families, and faculty and staff” concerned about “their own safety and security.”
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“STUDENTS DEMAND to be allowed to do any damn thing they want.”
Death penalty for all 9 could be a valuable lesson in restraining “activism”.
Well, “low income Black student” also appears to be low English comprehension:
““they did not hesitate to subject me, a low-income Black student, to BOTH the most severe disciplinary sanctions ever imposed for student activism [emphasis mine]” …. and? and? both sanctions and?
What a dummy
Give the guy a break.
If he’s a minority at Swathmore, there’s a decent chance that he’s a DEI admission.
He might need a lower standard than someone who had a 1500 SAT.
Of course they demand to be let off without penalty—that’s what leftists now do after they indulge in “civil disobedience”. They expect to be rewarded for breaking the law, unlike the original civil rights demonstrators, who expected to risk the penalties of the law while protesting its injustice. Note also that this clown was shocked by the “vindictive” stares of college administrators; he must have expected they would give him a hero medal for disrupting campus life and breaking the college’s behavior codes. This is what comes of coddling radicals.
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