Penn remains at a stalemate with protesters occupying about 35 tents on College Green, with tensions mounting and protest activity escalating.
Tensions grew when a Palestinian flag flew in the face of a pro-Israel supporter, who then grabbed the flag and tried to pull it away at Penn's encampment Thursday. Penn police and Philadelphia civil affairs officers then stepped in to calm things down on College Green.But Penn remains at a stalemate with protesters occupying about 35 tents on College Green, with tensions mounting and protest activity escalating, prompting the university to ask Mayor Cherelle L.
The pro-Palestinian encampment at Penn has become a game of cat and mouse between protesters and administrators Student protests over Gaza war are forcing Penn and other U.S. universities to face ‘impossible’ demands He pointed out that Jameson last week in his call for the encampment to disband mentioned “harassing and intimidating comments and actions” by some protesters.At New Jersey’s flagship state university, about 75 tents were peacefully dismantled on Thursday afternoon, shortly after president Jonathan Holloway and chancellor Francine Conway warned that if students did not leave, the university would “with the assistance of law enforcement,” remove them.
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