Hundreds of students converged Wednesday in the yard, which had earlier been closed off to the public. As more students filtered into Harvard yard, protesters put up about a dozen tents in front of the statute of John Harvard. Campus police stood by, but did not intervene.
Harvard University police patrol the scene where protesters set up tents in front of the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard during a rally in support of the suspended pro-Palestinian group.
Iyer addressed the crowd, highlighting how the day's actions were part of a broader nonviolent student movement against what he described as “genocidal violence” in Gaza. In a statement Monday, leaders of Harvard's Palestine Solidarity Committee said the group had been “disproportionately targeted by the administration on the grounds of technicalities that we tried to observe vigilantly."On Wednesday, the ACLU of Massachusetts sent Harvard’s lawyers a letter requesting the school reconsider the suspension and expressing concerns with how the probation unfolded.
Junior Dylan Young, one of the group leaders, said administrators had threatened to tear down the encampment. But, he said, the group was undeterred, saying"this demonstration is much more than our tents."
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