At least 20 pro-Palestine protesters have been arrested from a Gaza solidarity encampment on the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) campus, according to local police.
Several dozen people set up tents at UTD’s Chess Plaza on Wednesday morning, with one sign saying “Welcome to Gaza Liberation Plaza”.
Police were seen dismantling the encampment and arresting protesters for criminal trespass on Wednesday afternoon.
A state trooper pepper sprays pro-Palestinian protesters after police vehicles were blocked at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, U.S. April 29, 2024. Aaron E. Martinez/American-Statesman/USA Today Network via REUTERS.
"After 205 days of genocide and almost 40,000 Palestinian martyrs, it is shameful that #UT continues to invest in mass murder and resorts to brutal intimidation tactics to try to silence its own students," said one protester.
“I’ve personally dealt with a lot of accusations that I’m either a self hating Jew, and even worse, some have called me a Kapo, which is a Jew sellout of fellow Jews to the Nazis, all for the stances I’ve taken for my Palestinian brothers and sisters. And that’s personally very hurtful to me. I lost family in the Holocaust. But it doesn’t stop me. I understand what I’m doing is just..."
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However, as discussed in the thread* below, I disagree with the implied assessment.
Students that are lawfully using their #1a but doing so in a political way ON the (private premises) of campuses are severly disrupting the learning environment for all students. That is not exceptable: