Pro-Palestine encampments have popped up across campus lawns at Emerson, MIT, Harvard University and other Boston area colleges.
Boston police tore down a pro-Palestinian encampment on Emerson College's campus overnight, and police cars lined Boylston Street early Thursday morning, with yellow police tape blocking off the alley where students had gathered to protest the war in Gaza.
"They had like just barriers set up with like umbrellas facing forward and making sure that no one could get through, making sure that the cops couldn’t get through. And there over here they had – over in the front entrance, their arms were all linked up, and they were all chanting their messages,” Graff said.
Students across the country are occupying college campuses with encampments opposing Israel's war in Gaza.. Not only are they calling for peace, but they're demanding the university divest from Israel and do more to protect Jewish students. "As of right now, it's not threatening," said Jewish student Rebecca Hirschfeld, who says the camp should be removed if it becomes violent or disruptive."It's been very calm, I haven't heard anything that makes me feel unsafe. We'll have to see what comes."
Those demands are like the encampments at Columbia University. They want their schools to stop accepting funding from groups that directly or indirectly fund the war in Gaza. Back at MIT, a coalition of student groups, including Jewish students, continue to push for progress on their goals, while some faculty are speaking out against them.
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