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"content": "\u003cp>At Pomona College in eastern Los Angeles County, commencement ceremonies are scheduled for this weekend on the college’s central Marston Quad, with events planned Friday through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of late Thursday, a pro-Palestinian encampment on the quad was growing in the exact location where commencement is supposed to be held. Dozens of students have set up tents, Palestinian flags and barricades around the college’s graduation stage, making it unclear whether the college will be able to proceed with commencement activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters said Thursday that they have no plans to leave the encampment until the college meets their demands to divest its endowment funds from companies supporting Israel and its war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These schools love their pageantry and their ceremonies, so seizing the commencement plaza was really just a strategic move to show the college that we will continue to disrupt business as usual until they divest,” said Kwame Nkrumah, a sophomore at the college studying political sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elite liberal arts college of about 1,700 students is one of several campuses across California with commencement events scheduled this weekend that protests could disrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Southern California canceled its main stage commencement ceremony altogether, citing security concerns. It does have other events planned, including a celebration for graduating students and their families at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that was held Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, which will hold its main ceremony on Saturday morning, campus officials acknowledge protests are possible but said they are moving ahead with commencement like business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are some of the first graduations to be held since pro-Palestinian encampments and protests popped up last month across California and the rest of the country, sparked by the arrests of more than 100 protesters at Columbia University on April 18. Protesters have demanded their campuses divest from Israel. Protesters at one campus in California declared success earlier this week when Sacramento State changed its investment policy to state that the college will no longer invest “in corporations and funds that profit from genocide, ethnic cleansing and activities that violate fundamental human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pomona, campus officials said they remain committed to holding their commencement events this weekend. The first event scheduled to take place on the quad is Friday at 5 p.m. when the college plans to hold an induction for its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society. On Saturday evening, the college plans to hold a celebratory dinner on the quad for graduates and their families before the main commencement ceremony on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the year, college leaders have offered to meet with student protesters and will continue to do so. We will promote safety for all members of our community and pursue our educational mission, considering the full range of viewpoints. We are committed to holding commencement to honor the Class of 2024 with their loved ones, and preparations are continuing,” a college spokesperson said in a statement to EdSource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College officials, who were not made available for an interview, have not disclosed how or whether they plan to clear the encampment to hold the commencement activities. Nkrumah said students are prepared for the possibility that police will attempt to clear the encampment. Last month, 20 students were arrested while occupying the college president’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattin Khoshzaban, a graduating senior at Pomona, said he and his classmates have heard little from administrators ahead of this weekend’s ceremonies. Khoshzaban said he supports the protesters and their message but added he’s frustrated by the possibility that commencement could be disrupted. Like many current college seniors, he graduated from high school in 2020 and didn’t get an in-person graduation ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although they’re trying to protest the administration, it feels like a protest against the students. And especially because we didn’t get our first graduation,” he said. “We have our families flying in. We literally don’t know what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khoshzaban, who is studying economics, has a dozen family members who were expected to fly into the Los Angeles area starting Thursday night from Oregon, including his parents, grandparents, siblings and even aunts and uncles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has protested other things at different times, but they are upset for me because they know I didn’t have a high school graduation,” said Khoshzaban, who added that it would be “very meaningful” for him to be able to walk across the commencement stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anwar Mohamed, another graduating senior, feels differently. He also had his high school graduation in Chicago canceled because of the pandemic, but he isn’t worried about whether he walks across the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demanding that Pomona divest is a personal issue for Mohamed, who is one of the organizers of the encampment. Mohamed, who is Muslim, said he remembers his family talking about Palestine since he was just 3 years old.[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"israel-gaza-war\"]“Every time we were in Friday prayer, it was always like our prayers are to Palestine. Like our actions are to Palestine, our beings are for Palestine,” he said. “And I think for me as a senior, it’s realizing that I didn’t come here for walking across a stage. College was never about this degree. College was about doing this study and understanding the material world that we live in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther north in California, at UC Berkeley, planning for commencement is proceeding normally and will be held Saturday morning at California Memorial Stadium. College officials are not ruling out the possibility of protests but said there are no plans to change any of the usual commencement programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley graduation ceremonies have been venues for all sorts of protests for many years. This year, like every year in the past, our efforts will focus on ensuring the ceremony can be successfully held, and on supporting the ability of graduating students, their friends and families to safely enjoy and take part in an incredibly meaningful day,” said Dan Mogulof, a spokesperson for the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ying, a graduating senior at UC Berkeley, said he appreciates that Berkeley is moving ahead with a typical commencement. Ying is this year’s recipient of the University Medal, Berkeley’s top honor for graduating seniors, and will give a speech at the ceremony. He received the honor in part for his work with incarcerated people, including tutoring them and helping them edit and publish news stories distributed at prisons statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ying doesn’t plan to address Israel’s war in Gaza during his speech, saying that it wouldn’t be genuine to talk about it because none of his extracurriculars while in college related to the conflict. But he added that the university never told him he couldn’t talk about the conflict in his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the University of Southern California, college officials canceled the commencement speech of valedictorian Asna Tabassum before canceling the ceremony altogether. Tabassum had been attacked by pro-Israel groups over a link in her Instagram bio that led to a website supporting Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that Berkeley is not going down that same path. Berkeley obviously has a very rich history of having been involved with the free speech movement,” Ying said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/college-commencements-face-disruption-from-pro-palestinian-protests/711691\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"title": "Pro-Palestinian Protests on California College Campuses: What Are Students Demanding?",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just weeks before summer break, as most students are wrapping up their semesters or preparing for graduation, pro-Palestinian protests and encampments have sprung up on scores of college campuses across California — as they have throughout the country. While most protests have remained peaceful, a handful of campuses around the state have been rocked in recent days by sweeping law enforcement crackdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampments have been part of a movement that has spread quickly across the country following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245642588/nypd-breaks-up-pro-palestinian-protest-at-columbia-university\">New York Police Department’s \u003c/a>first attempted crackdown, in mid-April, of a student demonstration at Columbia University in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we really are at a moment that feels historic in a way that student organizing hasn’t in quite a few years,” Angus Johnston, a historian and advocate of American student movements, said earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “It really was not until Columbia’s crackdown that we saw this explosion of defiance on campuses, whose number is increasing every single day at this point. That is a pace of acceleration that we haven’t seen in a very, very long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Why are students protesting?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Where are the protests happening?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Why are students protesting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While specific goals vary by campus, Johnston said there have been four general demands that student protesters across the country have made of their academic institutions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Divest from all financial holdings — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984140/growing-protests-over-the-israel-hamas-war-puts-spotlight-on-college-endowments\">often through their endowments\u003c/a> — in companies that have ties to Israel or contribute to Israel’s military.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Institute an academic boycott of Israel, including ending all research with Israeli universities that have military ties and canceling studying abroad programs in the country.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase transparency about its involvement and connection — financial or academic — to the Israeli military and other institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offer amnesty to student protesters who have been arrested or received academic discipline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Malak Afaneh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">a third-year UC Berkeley law student \u003c/a>and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\"> co-president of Law Students for Justice in Palestine\u003c/a>, told \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that protesters also want the university to officially acknowledge the situation “in Palestine \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-expert-says-israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-calls-arms-embargo-2024-03-26/\">as a genocide\u003c/a> because they’ve failed to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11984645 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Israel’s siege of Gaza has been raging for nearly seven months. Israeli forces have killed over 34,000 Palestinians in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s attacks have displaced some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million\u003c/a> residents, and the United Nations has rung the alarm about \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-chief-says-incremental-progress-toward-averting-gaza-famine-2024-04-30/\">a possible famine in the northern part of the enclave\u003c/a>. The Biden administration has mostly been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/world/middleeast/israel-us-aid.html\">unwavering in its support of Israel\u003c/a>. Although Biden has more recently demanded that Israel implement new steps to protect civilians and aid workers — and urged its leaders to seek a cease-fire agreement — he has also consistently supported efforts to continue sending huge amounts of military aid to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">\u003cem>Follow KQED’s coverage of the war\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, and read about the history of the decades-long conflict in NPR’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">\u003cem>‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Where are the protests happening?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of May 2, there are at least 14 pro-Palestinian encampments on college campuses throughout California. They include multiple campuses in the Bay Area, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pro-Palestinian protests on California college campuses\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-BxKrr\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/BxKrr/17/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"650\" height=\"845\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most encampments have been established in central campus locations. At UC Berkeley’s encampment, which began last week, there are now nearly 100 tents — occupied by students, alums and faculty — sprawled in front of Sproul Hall, a center of student life on campus. (Some campuses have also seen counterprotests by supporters of Israel, such as a recent demonstration at UCLA that received \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/04/27/counter-protests-of-ucla-encampment-raise-over-50000-on-gofundme\">thousands of dollars of support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pro-Palestinian student protests have largely been peaceful, noted Johnston, the historian, adding that some people inaccurately view the student protesters of the 1960s as more “disciplined” than their counterparts today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that in terms of tactics, the students of 2024 are much more restrained than \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp8w8\">the students of 1968, ’69, ’70,”\u003c/a> Johnston said. “They haven’t been engaging in battles with police. We’ve seen only a few building takeovers. We’ve seen very little property destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Afaneh explained that divestment should include “any of the university’s endowments, any of their partnerships, that are in partnership with institutions complicit in this genocide — whether it be weapons, arms manufacturers, and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for divestment from companies linked to Israel — a key strategy in the global \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divest, Sanction\u003c/a> (BDS) movement — is nothing new among student activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate\">fighting for the rights of Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University student Zinaib I. speaks at a rally outside the student center on April 30. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, UC Berkeley’s student government passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">a resolution calling for similar divestment actions in 2015\u003c/a>. The prevalence of such activism has even led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/04/28/an-obscure-california-law-may-prevent-action-on-protesters-calls-for-divestment-from-israel/#:~:text=The%20law%20forbids%20the%20award,known%20by%20the%20acronym%20BDS.\">anti-boycott laws\u003c/a> in California and other states — legislation condemned\u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses\"> by Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> — that has \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2018/11/22/israel-boycott-canary-mission-blacklist/\">landed some students on blacklists\u003c/a>, potentially affecting their future employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the main companies activists have targeted include \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">General Electric, Boeing, Caterpillar, Google and Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, all of which, they say, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnestyusa.org/no-weapons-for-war-crimes/\">profiteer from Israel’s war crimes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnston, the Vietnam War student protests revealed “a web of relationships between universities, the government, the national security state, the military-industrial complex. [And] when those relationships were revealed, the pressure to draw them back became intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yousuf Abubakr, a UC Berkeley student studying mechanical engineering, said big \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-entrances-to-lockheed-martin-facility-in-sunnyvale/\">defense contractors like Lockheed Martin\u003c/a> and Boeing often attend engineering career fairs on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’d be great to get engineering students more aware of the companies and their position in this genocide and ethnic cleansing,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Reactions from colleges have varied significantly across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UCLA \u003c/strong>declared its pro-Palestinian encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">“unlawful”\u003c/a> Tuesday evening, saying students face possible suspension or expulsion, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pplscitycouncil/status/1785203795645063207?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">videos showing police in riot gear on campus\u003c/a>. On April 30, UCLA’s independent student newspaper reported that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dailybruin/status/1785549519989735509?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">pro-Israel supporters were tearing down pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/a> barricades, clashing with protesters and allegedly setting off fireworks. The \u003cem>LA Times \u003c/em>reported that security guards \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">watching the scene did not intervene\u003c/a>. Classes were \u003ca href=\"https://bso.ucla.edu/\">canceled the next day\u003c/a> and UC President Michael V. Drake ordered an independent review of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/la-me-ucla-camp-police\">more than 200 protesters were arrested\u003c/a> as police in riot gear clashed with them and dismantled the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Riverside\u003c/strong> on Friday, pro-Palestinian student protesters said they had reached an agreement with university leaders and \u003ca href=\"https://riversiderecord.org/student-protesters-ucr-administration-reach-agreement-to-end-encampment/\">announced their encampment would be coming down\u003c/a>. As part of the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.ucr.edu/chancellor/May_3_ammended-agreement.pdf\">agreement, signed by its chancellor\u003c/a>, UC Riverside pledged to form a task force of students and faculty to explore the potential removal of the university’s endowment from the UC Investment Office’s management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>Cal Poly Humboldt\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/cal-poly-humboldt\">students last week took over an administrative building\u003c/a>. On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/cal-poly-humboldt-police-declare-demonstration-19429921.php\">some 300 officers in riot gear arrested 35 protesters\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/E__C___/status/1785353134828839383\">an assistant professor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/nyregion/california-poly-humboldt-protests-arrests.html\">ending the building takeover\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At\u003cstrong> Stanford University\u003c/strong>, officials have repeatedly warned student protesters in encampments that they are violating campus policies and may face suspension. The school \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/04/30/stanford-forwards-encampment-photo-to-fbi/\">also recently sent a photo to the FBI\u003c/a> of an unidentified person at the encampment with a green headband resembling those worn by Hamas, according to \u003cem>The Stanford Daily\u003c/em>, the school’s independent student newspaper\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cstrong>University of Southern California \u003c/strong>made headlines in mid-April when the administration announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/us/usc-cancels-outside-speakers-2024-commencement/index.html#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20Southern%20California%20announced%20it's%20calling%20off%20appearances,what%20it%20called%20security%20concerns.\">it was canceling the commencement speech\u003c/a> of its Muslim valediction — who has previously expressed pro-Palestinian views — citing safety concerns. Following the Columbia protests, a large group of students set up a campus encampment last week. On April 24, social media \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/lapd-marches-towards-usc-protesters-209660485756\">videos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-usc-campus-israel-hamas-protest#how-effective-is-this-form-of-protest\">news coverage\u003c/a> showing the Los Angeles Police Department marching toward campus and arresting \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-24/usc-pro-palestinian-encampment\">nearly a hundred students\u003c/a> drew national attention. On April 25, the school announced it was\u003ca href=\"https://commencement.usc.edu/2024/04/25/commencement-update-april-25-2024/\"> canceling its main graduation ceremony\u003c/a>. Earlier this week, the university’s president met with pro-Palestine students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools in California where protests are happening, however, have so far allowed them to proceed without disruption as long as they are conducted peacefully. \u003cstrong>SFSU\u003c/strong> spokesperson Kent Bravo said the school has long honored the right of community members to peacefully protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">“while preserving a safe campus environment.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sacramento State\u003c/strong> President Luke Woods extended approval for the pro-Palestinian encampment on that school’s campus. “Our job is not to squash free speech,” Wood said, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thestatehornet/status/1785473239214669939?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">student newspaper, \u003cem>The State Hornet, reported \u003c/em>on X\u003c/a>. “Our job is to protect safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine Mayor Farrah N. Khan took preemptive action and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bencamach0/status/1785056654444404887?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">released a statement\u003c/a> asking the city’s police to “stand down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not tolerate any violence to students’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Berkeley’s \u003c/strong>growing encampment, there has so far been virtually no police intervention, which is in sharp contrast to what’s transpired at UCLA. Dan Mogulof, an administration spokesperson, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the University of California changed its policy on responding to “non-violent political protests” after \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2021/11/18/10-years-later-uc-davis-implements-change-following-pepper-spraying-incident/\">the 2012 Occupy Wall Street movement, during which an officer pepper-sprayed a group of UC Davis protesters\u003c/a>. The new policy, he said, stipulates that school officials should no longer call in law enforcement preemptively but only “when there’s a clear, imminent threat to the campus, to life safety and to the safety of the campus community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11984625 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240501_MAYDAYRALLY-27-GC-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“What we’re seeing around the country, bringing in law enforcement can have unintended consequences and can make the matter worse,” Mogulof said. “But there’s another level. We must, at the same time, be prepared to respond to individual or isolated incidents of alleged criminal behavior, harassment, or discrimination.” (He added that police are investigating an alleged incident in which a Jewish law student, who was also interviewed on the \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> show, said he was punched while filming at a pro-Palestinian rally.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, according to the \u003cem>Daily Cal, \u003c/em>Berkeley’s independent student newspaper, the university’s administration had \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/featured/uc-berkeley-administration-begins-negotiations-with-free-palestine-encampment/article_3da3ceee-082c-11ef-96a5-5750ec0f7ab4.html\">“begun negotiations”\u003c/a> with the encampment protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, UC President Michael V. Drake said in a statement on Tuesday, “The University of California campuses will work with students, faculty and staff to make space available and do all we can to protect these protests and demonstrations.” But he added that “Disruptive unlawful protests that violate the rights of our fellow citizens are unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>LA Times\u003c/em>, Drake did not specify what behavior he found disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that one of the things that’s really distinctive about this moment is that — [and] it has been true for quite a while — that student dissent and student protest around the issue of Israel and Palestine has been more likely to be met with suppressive tactics from administrators and police, than a lot of other kinds of protest,” added Johnston, the historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few schools have met with student protesters to discuss divestment options so far. Some have said their investments mainly consist of large mutual funds rather than holdings in individual companies, which they say \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/calls-to-divest-from-israel-part-of-campus-protests-thats-not-easy-to-do-experts-say/4FBKI3MFFVBY3K65FYNLDRLD4A/\">makes divestment decisions far more complicated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University wrote in an email to KQED that the school’s board makes divestment decisions of trustees. “In 2015, the Board declined a proposal to divest of certain companies doing business in Israel,” it said. “The Board has not received another formal divestment petition on this subject, and its 2015 decision remains in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto on April 25, calling for the university to divest from Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Divestment campaigns have been pursued for decades by activists fighting for various human rights and environmental causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “not unusual at all for that to be a strategy that goes on for decades before winning full fruition,” Johnston said. For example, climate activists have long pushed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/29/apartheid-to-fossil-fuels-columbias-history-of-divestment-before-gaza\">universities to divest from fossil fuel companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2006/03/101734/uc-regents-vote-divest-companies-business-ties-sudanese-government\">the University of California Board of Regents voted to divest\u003c/a> “from several companies involved in significant business activities that provide revenue to the Sudanese government to continue acts of genocide in Darfur” — an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-me-ucsudan9-story.html\">outcome largely credited to student protesters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California has taken a principled stand against the tragedy in Sudan by severing its financial connections from those nine companies who aid the genocide and by lending its voice to those calling for peace in the region,” Gerald L. Parsky, chairman of the board, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2006/03/101734/uc-regents-vote-divest-companies-business-ties-sudanese-government\">at the time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And perhaps most famously — and drawing the clearest parallels to today’s protests — are the anti-apartheid protests of the mid-1980s, when activists demanded universities and other institutions divest from companies that did business with South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Africa’s apartheid was \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/apartheid\">an institutional system under an all-white government that enforced racial segregation\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://au.int/en/auhrm-project-focus-area-apartheid\">almost all aspects of life\u003c/a>, a racist system \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate\">that some human rights groups\u003c/a> say mirrors Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11984403,news_11984203,news_11830384\"]In 1985, after the University of California initially refused to divest from companies that did business with South Africa, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201312110735/thank-you-mr-mandela\">students at UC Berkeley and other campuses \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/managing-protest\">protested for six weeks\u003c/a>, staging sit-ins, camp-outs, and teach-ins about the apartheid regime. During this time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/managing-protest\">hundreds of students were detained by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/30/1248088063/divest-divestment-university-college-protesters-campus-israel-gaza-invasion\">The pressure campaign\u003c/a> prompted \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/managing-protest\">the University of California \u003c/a>the following year to reverse course and dump some $3 billion of its investments in companies linked to South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnston, the historian, noted that, contrary to popular belief, the anti-apartheid movement didn’t suddenly emerge in the 1980s. Although that’s when it came to a head, he said, the movement actually began in the 1950s and had been building momentum for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other thing that I think is really important to remember is — as somebody who was on campus in the late 1980s — very few of us expected the kinds of changes that we saw in South Africa to happen as quickly as they did,” Johnston added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transition of the South African country from apartheid to a multiracial democracy,” he said, “is one that happened in no small part as a result of economic, political and cultural pressure from outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sarah Hossaini, Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, Matthew Green, and Alexis Madrigal contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Just weeks before summer break, as most students are wrapping up their semesters or preparing for graduation, pro-Palestinian protests and encampments have sprung up on scores of college campuses across California — as they have throughout the country. While most protests have remained peaceful, a handful of campuses around the state have been rocked in recent days by sweeping law enforcement crackdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampments have been part of a movement that has spread quickly across the country following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245642588/nypd-breaks-up-pro-palestinian-protest-at-columbia-university\">New York Police Department’s \u003c/a>first attempted crackdown, in mid-April, of a student demonstration at Columbia University in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we really are at a moment that feels historic in a way that student organizing hasn’t in quite a few years,” Angus Johnston, a historian and advocate of American student movements, said earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “It really was not until Columbia’s crackdown that we saw this explosion of defiance on campuses, whose number is increasing every single day at this point. That is a pace of acceleration that we haven’t seen in a very, very long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Why are students protesting?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Where are the protests happening?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Why are students protesting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While specific goals vary by campus, Johnston said there have been four general demands that student protesters across the country have made of their academic institutions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Divest from all financial holdings — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984140/growing-protests-over-the-israel-hamas-war-puts-spotlight-on-college-endowments\">often through their endowments\u003c/a> — in companies that have ties to Israel or contribute to Israel’s military.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Institute an academic boycott of Israel, including ending all research with Israeli universities that have military ties and canceling studying abroad programs in the country.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase transparency about its involvement and connection — financial or academic — to the Israeli military and other institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offer amnesty to student protesters who have been arrested or received academic discipline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Malak Afaneh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">a third-year UC Berkeley law student \u003c/a>and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\"> co-president of Law Students for Justice in Palestine\u003c/a>, told \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that protesters also want the university to officially acknowledge the situation “in Palestine \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-expert-says-israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-calls-arms-embargo-2024-03-26/\">as a genocide\u003c/a> because they’ve failed to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Israel’s siege of Gaza has been raging for nearly seven months. Israeli forces have killed over 34,000 Palestinians in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s attacks have displaced some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million\u003c/a> residents, and the United Nations has rung the alarm about \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-chief-says-incremental-progress-toward-averting-gaza-famine-2024-04-30/\">a possible famine in the northern part of the enclave\u003c/a>. The Biden administration has mostly been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/world/middleeast/israel-us-aid.html\">unwavering in its support of Israel\u003c/a>. Although Biden has more recently demanded that Israel implement new steps to protect civilians and aid workers — and urged its leaders to seek a cease-fire agreement — he has also consistently supported efforts to continue sending huge amounts of military aid to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">\u003cem>Follow KQED’s coverage of the war\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, and read about the history of the decades-long conflict in NPR’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">\u003cem>‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Where are the protests happening?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of May 2, there are at least 14 pro-Palestinian encampments on college campuses throughout California. They include multiple campuses in the Bay Area, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pro-Palestinian protests on California college campuses\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-BxKrr\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/BxKrr/17/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"650\" height=\"845\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most encampments have been established in central campus locations. At UC Berkeley’s encampment, which began last week, there are now nearly 100 tents — occupied by students, alums and faculty — sprawled in front of Sproul Hall, a center of student life on campus. (Some campuses have also seen counterprotests by supporters of Israel, such as a recent demonstration at UCLA that received \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/04/27/counter-protests-of-ucla-encampment-raise-over-50000-on-gofundme\">thousands of dollars of support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pro-Palestinian student protests have largely been peaceful, noted Johnston, the historian, adding that some people inaccurately view the student protesters of the 1960s as more “disciplined” than their counterparts today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that in terms of tactics, the students of 2024 are much more restrained than \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp8w8\">the students of 1968, ’69, ’70,”\u003c/a> Johnston said. “They haven’t been engaging in battles with police. We’ve seen only a few building takeovers. We’ve seen very little property destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Afaneh explained that divestment should include “any of the university’s endowments, any of their partnerships, that are in partnership with institutions complicit in this genocide — whether it be weapons, arms manufacturers, and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for divestment from companies linked to Israel — a key strategy in the global \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divest, Sanction\u003c/a> (BDS) movement — is nothing new among student activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate\">fighting for the rights of Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University student Zinaib I. speaks at a rally outside the student center on April 30. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, UC Berkeley’s student government passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">a resolution calling for similar divestment actions in 2015\u003c/a>. The prevalence of such activism has even led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/04/28/an-obscure-california-law-may-prevent-action-on-protesters-calls-for-divestment-from-israel/#:~:text=The%20law%20forbids%20the%20award,known%20by%20the%20acronym%20BDS.\">anti-boycott laws\u003c/a> in California and other states — legislation condemned\u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses\"> by Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> — that has \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2018/11/22/israel-boycott-canary-mission-blacklist/\">landed some students on blacklists\u003c/a>, potentially affecting their future employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the main companies activists have targeted include \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">General Electric, Boeing, Caterpillar, Google and Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, all of which, they say, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnestyusa.org/no-weapons-for-war-crimes/\">profiteer from Israel’s war crimes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnston, the Vietnam War student protests revealed “a web of relationships between universities, the government, the national security state, the military-industrial complex. [And] when those relationships were revealed, the pressure to draw them back became intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yousuf Abubakr, a UC Berkeley student studying mechanical engineering, said big \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-entrances-to-lockheed-martin-facility-in-sunnyvale/\">defense contractors like Lockheed Martin\u003c/a> and Boeing often attend engineering career fairs on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’d be great to get engineering students more aware of the companies and their position in this genocide and ethnic cleansing,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Reactions from colleges have varied significantly across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UCLA \u003c/strong>declared its pro-Palestinian encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">“unlawful”\u003c/a> Tuesday evening, saying students face possible suspension or expulsion, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pplscitycouncil/status/1785203795645063207?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">videos showing police in riot gear on campus\u003c/a>. On April 30, UCLA’s independent student newspaper reported that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dailybruin/status/1785549519989735509?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">pro-Israel supporters were tearing down pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/a> barricades, clashing with protesters and allegedly setting off fireworks. The \u003cem>LA Times \u003c/em>reported that security guards \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">watching the scene did not intervene\u003c/a>. Classes were \u003ca href=\"https://bso.ucla.edu/\">canceled the next day\u003c/a> and UC President Michael V. Drake ordered an independent review of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/la-me-ucla-camp-police\">more than 200 protesters were arrested\u003c/a> as police in riot gear clashed with them and dismantled the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Riverside\u003c/strong> on Friday, pro-Palestinian student protesters said they had reached an agreement with university leaders and \u003ca href=\"https://riversiderecord.org/student-protesters-ucr-administration-reach-agreement-to-end-encampment/\">announced their encampment would be coming down\u003c/a>. As part of the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.ucr.edu/chancellor/May_3_ammended-agreement.pdf\">agreement, signed by its chancellor\u003c/a>, UC Riverside pledged to form a task force of students and faculty to explore the potential removal of the university’s endowment from the UC Investment Office’s management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>Cal Poly Humboldt\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/cal-poly-humboldt\">students last week took over an administrative building\u003c/a>. On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/cal-poly-humboldt-police-declare-demonstration-19429921.php\">some 300 officers in riot gear arrested 35 protesters\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/E__C___/status/1785353134828839383\">an assistant professor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/nyregion/california-poly-humboldt-protests-arrests.html\">ending the building takeover\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At\u003cstrong> Stanford University\u003c/strong>, officials have repeatedly warned student protesters in encampments that they are violating campus policies and may face suspension. The school \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/04/30/stanford-forwards-encampment-photo-to-fbi/\">also recently sent a photo to the FBI\u003c/a> of an unidentified person at the encampment with a green headband resembling those worn by Hamas, according to \u003cem>The Stanford Daily\u003c/em>, the school’s independent student newspaper\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cstrong>University of Southern California \u003c/strong>made headlines in mid-April when the administration announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/us/usc-cancels-outside-speakers-2024-commencement/index.html#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20Southern%20California%20announced%20it's%20calling%20off%20appearances,what%20it%20called%20security%20concerns.\">it was canceling the commencement speech\u003c/a> of its Muslim valediction — who has previously expressed pro-Palestinian views — citing safety concerns. Following the Columbia protests, a large group of students set up a campus encampment last week. On April 24, social media \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/lapd-marches-towards-usc-protesters-209660485756\">videos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-usc-campus-israel-hamas-protest#how-effective-is-this-form-of-protest\">news coverage\u003c/a> showing the Los Angeles Police Department marching toward campus and arresting \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-24/usc-pro-palestinian-encampment\">nearly a hundred students\u003c/a> drew national attention. On April 25, the school announced it was\u003ca href=\"https://commencement.usc.edu/2024/04/25/commencement-update-april-25-2024/\"> canceling its main graduation ceremony\u003c/a>. Earlier this week, the university’s president met with pro-Palestine students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools in California where protests are happening, however, have so far allowed them to proceed without disruption as long as they are conducted peacefully. \u003cstrong>SFSU\u003c/strong> spokesperson Kent Bravo said the school has long honored the right of community members to peacefully protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">“while preserving a safe campus environment.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sacramento State\u003c/strong> President Luke Woods extended approval for the pro-Palestinian encampment on that school’s campus. “Our job is not to squash free speech,” Wood said, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thestatehornet/status/1785473239214669939?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">student newspaper, \u003cem>The State Hornet, reported \u003c/em>on X\u003c/a>. “Our job is to protect safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine Mayor Farrah N. Khan took preemptive action and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bencamach0/status/1785056654444404887?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">released a statement\u003c/a> asking the city’s police to “stand down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not tolerate any violence to students’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Berkeley’s \u003c/strong>growing encampment, there has so far been virtually no police intervention, which is in sharp contrast to what’s transpired at UCLA. Dan Mogulof, an administration spokesperson, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the University of California changed its policy on responding to “non-violent political protests” after \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2021/11/18/10-years-later-uc-davis-implements-change-following-pepper-spraying-incident/\">the 2012 Occupy Wall Street movement, during which an officer pepper-sprayed a group of UC Davis protesters\u003c/a>. The new policy, he said, stipulates that school officials should no longer call in law enforcement preemptively but only “when there’s a clear, imminent threat to the campus, to life safety and to the safety of the campus community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“What we’re seeing around the country, bringing in law enforcement can have unintended consequences and can make the matter worse,” Mogulof said. “But there’s another level. We must, at the same time, be prepared to respond to individual or isolated incidents of alleged criminal behavior, harassment, or discrimination.” (He added that police are investigating an alleged incident in which a Jewish law student, who was also interviewed on the \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> show, said he was punched while filming at a pro-Palestinian rally.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, according to the \u003cem>Daily Cal, \u003c/em>Berkeley’s independent student newspaper, the university’s administration had \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/featured/uc-berkeley-administration-begins-negotiations-with-free-palestine-encampment/article_3da3ceee-082c-11ef-96a5-5750ec0f7ab4.html\">“begun negotiations”\u003c/a> with the encampment protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, UC President Michael V. Drake said in a statement on Tuesday, “The University of California campuses will work with students, faculty and staff to make space available and do all we can to protect these protests and demonstrations.” But he added that “Disruptive unlawful protests that violate the rights of our fellow citizens are unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>LA Times\u003c/em>, Drake did not specify what behavior he found disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that one of the things that’s really distinctive about this moment is that — [and] it has been true for quite a while — that student dissent and student protest around the issue of Israel and Palestine has been more likely to be met with suppressive tactics from administrators and police, than a lot of other kinds of protest,” added Johnston, the historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few schools have met with student protesters to discuss divestment options so far. Some have said their investments mainly consist of large mutual funds rather than holdings in individual companies, which they say \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/calls-to-divest-from-israel-part-of-campus-protests-thats-not-easy-to-do-experts-say/4FBKI3MFFVBY3K65FYNLDRLD4A/\">makes divestment decisions far more complicated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University wrote in an email to KQED that the school’s board makes divestment decisions of trustees. “In 2015, the Board declined a proposal to divest of certain companies doing business in Israel,” it said. “The Board has not received another formal divestment petition on this subject, and its 2015 decision remains in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto on April 25, calling for the university to divest from Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Divestment campaigns have been pursued for decades by activists fighting for various human rights and environmental causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “not unusual at all for that to be a strategy that goes on for decades before winning full fruition,” Johnston said. For example, climate activists have long pushed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/29/apartheid-to-fossil-fuels-columbias-history-of-divestment-before-gaza\">universities to divest from fossil fuel companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2006/03/101734/uc-regents-vote-divest-companies-business-ties-sudanese-government\">the University of California Board of Regents voted to divest\u003c/a> “from several companies involved in significant business activities that provide revenue to the Sudanese government to continue acts of genocide in Darfur” — an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-me-ucsudan9-story.html\">outcome largely credited to student protesters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California has taken a principled stand against the tragedy in Sudan by severing its financial connections from those nine companies who aid the genocide and by lending its voice to those calling for peace in the region,” Gerald L. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a way, the black-and-white Palestinian scarf draped over Hannah Sattler’s shoulders this week and the tie-dyed T-shirts of 1968 are woven from a common thread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many college students across the country protesting the Israel-Hamas war, Sattler feels the historic weight of the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations of the 1960s and ’70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They always talked about the ’68 protest as sort of a North Star,” Sattler, 27, a graduate student of international human rights policy at Columbia University, says of the campus organizers there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the choice to take over Hamilton Hall was always the plan from the start of the encampment,” she says. “Not only because it just made a lot of sense logistically, but it also has that … strong historical connection with the ’60s protests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, although it might be tempting to compare the nationwide campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement of a half-century ago, Robert Cohen says that would be an overreaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that this is the biggest in the United States in the 21st century,” says Cohen, a professor of history and social studies at New York University. “But you could say, ‘Well, that’s like being the tallest building in Wichita, Kansas.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11984845]So far, there have been no bombings, like the one in August 1970 at the University of Wisconsin that killed a postdoctoral researcher and did $6 million worth of damage. There has been no repeat of the infamous Kent State massacre of May 1970, when National Guard troops opened fire on protesters at the Ohio campus, killing four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have cleared encampments and made more than 2,000 arrests, and some, like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-student-protests-war-ec3f62c51c08599f8fcecd99f7cf9e33\">the crackdown on Thursday at UCLA\u003c/a>, have involved violent clashes. However, other actions by law enforcement, including the clearing of protesters who had occupied \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-student-protests-war-8b0d3a0cedb17f5e892c6ca43bbdf628\">Columbia’s Hamilton Hall\u003c/a>, were carried out without incident. At some campuses, protesters have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/northwestern-students-israel-palestinians-protest-c3698198f13c986d6bc238ff96081f9d\">struck agreements with administrators\u003c/a> to resolve their demands and packed up their tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, to some, there is a feeling that the situation is just one hair-trigger moment away from tragedy, says Mark Naison, who took part in the sometimes violent protests at Columbia in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are terrified,” says Naison, a professor of history and African & African American Studies at nearby Fordham University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, this does feel like the America of what Cohen calls “the long 60s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 1970, barely five months after the Kent State tragedy, the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest delivered to Richard M. Nixon a “Letter To The American People.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This crisis has roots in divisions of American society as deep as any since the Civil War,” the panel wrote. “The divisions are reflected in violent acts and harsh rhetoric and in the enmity of those Americans who see themselves as occupying opposing camps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the gyre of emotions on campuses from Connecticut to California, those words feel as if they could have been written this week. Even U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert alluded to that earlier time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the summer of love!” the Colorado Republican shouted through a bullhorn during a visit to chide protesters at George Washington University on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cohen says emotions — and sheer numbers — are nowhere near the levels they reached at the height of the Vietnam era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look. NYU was one of the first campuses to mobilize,” he says. “Maybe there’s 200 students — maybe. There are 30,000 (undergraduate) students at NYU, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another difference that has struck observers is the quick crackdown by campus authorities. In 1968, students occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall for nearly a week before authorities moved in. The bust — when it finally came — saw more than 700 arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s funny because Columbia is very proud of … Columbia students’ history of activism,” says Ilana Gut, a senior at the university’s sister school, Barnard College. “So their attitudes toward the modern-day activists, at least in the eyes of protesters, is very ironic — that they’re so proud of their past protesters, but so violently repressive of their modern-day ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two police officers lead the way as they are assisted in forcibly removing a Columbia University coed from a besieged campus building on April 30, 1968. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Korstad, who protested in the 1960s and is now a professor emeritus of public policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, does see comparisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, as now, they were protesting a violent war. And now, in addition, students have felt pervasive conflict, says Korstad, with the country’s rash of mass shootings and the murder of George Floyd by Minnesota police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really thinking about what’s motivating these young people and what they’ve grown up with and thinking about over their short lifetime,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another disturbing difference between then and now, says Jack Radey, is the lack of respect on campuses for differing views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radey was a 17-year-old activist during the original Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. He says today’s students have succeeded in amplifying the Palestinian cause, but, in some cases, at the cost of civility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not look on those students who had not joined the free speech movement as idiots or traitors, but as people we needed to convince,” says Radey, president of the movement’s archives. “You don’t do that by violence or with super-heated rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Korstad, believe the campus unrest hastened the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. Many of those protesting today want their colleges and universities to divest from companies that do business with Israel or otherwise contribute to the war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., protesters are asking MIT to end all research contracts with Israel’s Ministry of Defense, which they estimate a total of $11 million since 2015. Students there have taken direct inspiration from MIT protests against the Vietnam War and South African apartheid, including turning to the archives to study those protesters’ strategies and using some of the same slogans on their signs and setting up the encampment in the same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the group also learned from the failure of protesters in the 1980s to convince the campus to divest from South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We acknowledge that disclosure and divestment is a longer process,” says chemistry graduate student David Berkinsky, who is part of MIT’s Jews for Ceasefire group. “That’s why we have such a pinpointed request. We think it’s a reasonable ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With such widespread support for Israel, Cohen says major changes at most campuses are unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not an American war, except the Americans are; their firepower is being used by the Israelis,” Cohen says. “It’s different when you have American troops there, and you might be drafted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, students like Sattler now feel a part of a larger tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Baltimore native is Jewish but has been wearing a keffiyeh scarf to the protests. She says her parents took part in the anti-Vietnam protests during their college days, and that struggle has very much informed the current action, noting that students watched a documentary about 1968 and had people from those demonstrations speak to the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11984636,news_11984645,news_11984762\"]Sattler says the Columbia protesters were specifically trained in non-violent tactics and de-escalation. “I would not be a part of a movement if it wasn’t centered in nonviolence,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is willing to be arrested if that is how the authorities wish to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all share that level of commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a stretchy Spiderman mask and black hoodie, 18-year-old Brayden Lang hung on the fringe of the protest as fellow Northern Arizona University students carrying black-red-white-and-green Palestinian flags swarmed around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if he felt a kinship with the student demonstrators of the 1960s and ’70s, the freshman business marketing major responded innocently: “You’re talking about the women’s suffrage movement?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, police dismantled a small fence made of chicken wire and nearly two dozen tents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the gyre of emotions on campuses from Connecticut to California, those words feel as if they could have been written this week. Even U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert alluded to that earlier time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the summer of love!” the Colorado Republican shouted through a bullhorn during a visit to chide protesters at George Washington University on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cohen says emotions — and sheer numbers — are nowhere near the levels they reached at the height of the Vietnam era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look. NYU was one of the first campuses to mobilize,” he says. “Maybe there’s 200 students — maybe. There are 30,000 (undergraduate) students at NYU, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another difference that has struck observers is the quick crackdown by campus authorities. In 1968, students occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall for nearly a week before authorities moved in. The bust — when it finally came — saw more than 700 arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s funny because Columbia is very proud of … Columbia students’ history of activism,” says Ilana Gut, a senior at the university’s sister school, Barnard College. “So their attitudes toward the modern-day activists, at least in the eyes of protesters, is very ironic — that they’re so proud of their past protesters, but so violently repressive of their modern-day ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-514680002-e1714693303389-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two police officers lead the way as they are assisted in forcibly removing a Columbia University coed from a besieged campus building on April 30, 1968. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Korstad, who protested in the 1960s and is now a professor emeritus of public policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, does see comparisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, as now, they were protesting a violent war. And now, in addition, students have felt pervasive conflict, says Korstad, with the country’s rash of mass shootings and the murder of George Floyd by Minnesota police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really thinking about what’s motivating these young people and what they’ve grown up with and thinking about over their short lifetime,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another disturbing difference between then and now, says Jack Radey, is the lack of respect on campuses for differing views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radey was a 17-year-old activist during the original Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. He says today’s students have succeeded in amplifying the Palestinian cause, but, in some cases, at the cost of civility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not look on those students who had not joined the free speech movement as idiots or traitors, but as people we needed to convince,” says Radey, president of the movement’s archives. “You don’t do that by violence or with super-heated rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Korstad, believe the campus unrest hastened the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. Many of those protesting today want their colleges and universities to divest from companies that do business with Israel or otherwise contribute to the war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., protesters are asking MIT to end all research contracts with Israel’s Ministry of Defense, which they estimate a total of $11 million since 2015. Students there have taken direct inspiration from MIT protests against the Vietnam War and South African apartheid, including turning to the archives to study those protesters’ strategies and using some of the same slogans on their signs and setting up the encampment in the same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the group also learned from the failure of protesters in the 1980s to convince the campus to divest from South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We acknowledge that disclosure and divestment is a longer process,” says chemistry graduate student David Berkinsky, who is part of MIT’s Jews for Ceasefire group. “That’s why we have such a pinpointed request. We think it’s a reasonable ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With such widespread support for Israel, Cohen says major changes at most campuses are unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not an American war, except the Americans are; their firepower is being used by the Israelis,” Cohen says. “It’s different when you have American troops there, and you might be drafted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, students like Sattler now feel a part of a larger tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Baltimore native is Jewish but has been wearing a keffiyeh scarf to the protests. She says her parents took part in the anti-Vietnam protests during their college days, and that struggle has very much informed the current action, noting that students watched a documentary about 1968 and had people from those demonstrations speak to the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The university said it will still host dozens of smaller commencement events, including all the traditional individual school ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high after USC \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/university-of-southern-california-commencement-speech-canceled-125cb8db93f2247ca3e45f782b7fcb2a\">canceled a planned commencement speech\u003c/a> by the school’s pro-Palestinian valedictorian, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that this is disappointing; however, we are adding many new activities and celebrations to make this commencement academically meaningful, memorable, and uniquely USC,” the university said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Police Department said 93 people were arrested Wednesday night during a campus protest for allegedly trespassing. One person was arrested on allegations of assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cancellation announcement comes as college officials across the U.S. grow increasingly worried that ongoing protests on their campuses could disrupt plans for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-graduation-israel-gaza-protest-3b363f57cbe915e95b68eeed04ca342d\">commencement ceremonies\u003c/a> next month. Some universities called in police to break up the demonstrations, resulting in ugly scuffles and hundreds of arrests of students nationwide, while others appeared content to wait out student protests as the final days of the semester ticked down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some schools continue negotiating with demonstrators, others are rewriting their rules to ban encampments and moving final exams to new locations.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"gaza\"]Students protesting the war are demanding \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-protests-israel-divestment-palestinians-3f37f96f7be8e1124f266842d9caa627\">schools cut financial ties\u003c/a> to Israel and divest from companies enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encampments and protests continued to spring up on Thursday. A tent encampment popped up at Indiana University Bloomington before police with shields and batons shoved into a line of protesters, arresting an unknown number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the City College of New York, hundreds of students who were gathered on the lawn beneath the Harlem campus’ famed gothic buildings erupted in cheers after a small contingent of police officers retreated from the scene. In one corner of the quad, a “security training” was held among students who said they expected to be arrested in the coming hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Emerson College in Boston, 108 people were arrested overnight at an alleyway encampment. Video shows police first warning students there to leave. Students link arms to resist officers, who move forcefully through the crowd and throw some protesters to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boston police said four officers suffered injuries that were not life-threatening during the confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the night progressed, it got tenser and tenser. There were just more cops on all sides. It felt like we were being slowly pushed in and crushed,” said Ocean Muir, a sophomore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, the scariest moment was holding these umbrellas out in case we were tear-gassed, and hearing them come, and hearing their boots on the ground, just pounding into the ground louder than we could chant, and not being able to see a single person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muir said police lifted her by her arms and legs and carried her away. Along with other students, Muir was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emerson College leaders warned students that the alley was a public right-of-way and that city authorities had threatened to take action if the protesters didn’t leave. The school canceled classes on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Texas at Austin campus was much calmer Thursday after 57 people were jailed and charged with criminal trespass a day earlier. University officials pulled back barricades and allowed demonstrators onto the main square beneath the school’s iconic clock tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, students and some faculty protested both the war and Wednesday’s arrests, when state troopers in riot gear and on horseback plowed into protesters, forcing hundreds of students off the school’s main lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Emory University in Atlanta, local and state police swept in to dismantle a camp, although the university said the protesters weren’t students but rather outside activists. Some officers carried semiautomatic weapons, and video shows officers using a stun gun on one protester who they had pinned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jail records showed 22 people arrested by university police were charged with disorderly conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters at Emory chanted slogans supporting Palestinians and opposing a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cop-city-atlanta-police-training-center-cost-d4f5073d4372d7b327127e193fce30f2\">public safety training center\u003c/a> being built in Atlanta. The two movements are closely entwined in Atlanta, where activists have for years waged a “Stop Cop City” campaign against the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many colleges, including Harvard University, chose not to take immediate action against protesters who had set up tents, even though they were openly defying campus rules. And some colleges were making new rules, like Northwestern University, which hastily changed its student code of conduct on Thursday morning to bar tents on its suburban Chicago campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Washington University said it would move its law school finals from a building next to the protest encampment to a new location because of the noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current wave of protests was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inside-columbia-protest-movement-0b35ff55f18d0bf4b2c8c0a27b1dbe04\">inspired by events at Columbia University\u003c/a> in New York, where police cleared an encampment and arrested more than 100 people last week, only for students to defiantly put up tents again in an area where many are set to graduate in front of families in a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the ability to embrace student voices and different perspectives was a hallmark of the nation’s growth but warned that authorities wouldn’t tolerate hate, discrimination or threats of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a> began more than six months ago, the U.S. Education Department has launched civil rights investigations into dozens of universities and schools in response to complaints of antisemitism or Islamophobia. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Students protesting the war are demanding \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-protests-israel-divestment-palestinians-3f37f96f7be8e1124f266842d9caa627\">schools cut financial ties\u003c/a> to Israel and divest from companies enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encampments and protests continued to spring up on Thursday. A tent encampment popped up at Indiana University Bloomington before police with shields and batons shoved into a line of protesters, arresting an unknown number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the City College of New York, hundreds of students who were gathered on the lawn beneath the Harlem campus’ famed gothic buildings erupted in cheers after a small contingent of police officers retreated from the scene. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An announcement from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that she is considering the possibility of charging a group of pro-Palestinian protesters with a felony for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">blocking the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday\u003c/a> has been met with concern by legal experts and civil rights advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have also pushed back against \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrookeJenkinsSF/status/1780616603954204930\">Jenkins’ suggestion\u003c/a> that people who were stuck in traffic during the protest may be eligible for restitution as possible victims “detained against their will” or “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/brookejenkinssf/status/1780369591367340514?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">falsely imprisoned”\u003c/a> — and should reach out to California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people, Jenkins wrote on X on Wednesday, “may be entitled to restitution + have other victim rights guaranteed under \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/victim-services/marsys-law/\">Marsy’s law.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrookeJenkinsSF/status/1780616603954204930\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU Northern California’s legal director Shilpi Agarwal called the idea — that anyone disrupted by a protest can seek financial payment from protesters — a “red flag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lawful protests are, by design, meant to be visible and inconvenient,” Agarwal said. “Lawful protests often create roadblocks or shut down streets or create traffic … The idea that people who suffer that inconvenience are victims and should get money from the protesters is a very dangerous notion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What happened after the Golden Gate Bridge protests?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Alameda County prosecutors are still waiting to review evidence from CHP before announcing any charges against the protesters, who were part of an international “economic blockade” to oppose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">the United States’ financial support for Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11821950 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1020x680.jpg']Israel’s monthslong siege of Gaza, in response to Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 that killed some 1,200 Israelis according to Israel’s government, has caused \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-statistics-95a6407fac94e9d589be234708cd5005\">widespread devastation:\u003c/a> 33,000 Palestinians — more than 13,000 of them children — have since been killed, according to Gaza health authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s attacks have also displaced 70% of Gaza’s population, and the United Nations is warning that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-humanitarian-famine-gaza-malnutrition-cf622f843fe531fb6dbd5657a39d6b49\">a famine is approaching\u003c/a>. Since the siege began more than six months ago, thousands in the Bay Area have joined \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">rallies and protests demanding a cease-fire in Gaza\u003c/a>. (Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">the decades-long conflict from NPR’s “Middle East crisis — explained”\u003c/a> series.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the 12 protesters arrested in a separate protest on two different sections of Interstate 880 in Oakland were quickly released. However, most of the 26 arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge were booked and held in jail for more than 24 hours on suspicion of felony conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The felony arrest charge gives Jenkins the opportunity to consider charging the Golden Gate Bridge protesters with a felony. Misdemeanors or infractions are more common charges for protesters, Agarwal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we must protect avenues for free speech, the exercise of free speech cannot compromise public safety,” Jenkins wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrookeJenkinsSF/status/1780369591367340514/photo/1\">a statement posted to X. \u003c/a>“I truly believe that there can be free expression while maintaining the safety of our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP spokesperson Andrew Barclay argued the protesters posed a serious threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has a right to protest,” Barclay said. “People have a right to express their opinions. No one has the right to go on to a freeway and shut it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order for the charges to come to fruition, Barclay said CHP needs to speak to individuals “trapped on the bridge as this was happening” and needs “to actually show that there are specific individuals who were in this situation because of the actions of the protesters. And we need to do that in order to be able to meet those standards that will articulate that crime was committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an unrelated press conference on climate change on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook-pm/2024/04/16/dems-narrow-the-swing-district-gap-00152679\">Gov. Gavin Newsom also criticized Monday’s protests\u003c/a>: “I don’t think that’s helpful, and I don’t think that’s responsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said that he believed “there are better ways of protesting” and that “people need to be held to account for their actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What do legal voices and advocates say?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Center for Protest Law and Litigation — which is representing the freeway protesters — has blasted CHP and framed the possible allegations as trumped-up arrest charges meant to silence peaceful protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a way of inflicting a preemptive punishment before charges have even been filed,” said Rachel Lederman, the group’s senior council. “We haven’t seen this in recent years in San Francisco or in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11976328,news_11982940\"]Agarwal of the ACLU is concerned about the language Jenkins employed in the call out, which included \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/brookejenkinssf/status/1780369591367340514?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">“falsely imprisoned” and “restitution.” \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only kind of interpretation that I can glean from that is [that] she really wants to dissuade people from exercising their right to protest by sort of heaping on these protesters all kinds of unusual consequences, some of which are financial,” Agarwal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is that’s really going to have a chilling effect on speech because lawful protesting is inconvenient,” she said. “It is how you draw attention to an issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman added that she thought “it’s a bit far-fetched to charge people with false imprisonment for blocking traffic” — although she said in her experience, restitution is common in criminal cases. She noted that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">78 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after they blocked the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> are paying “a very small amount of restitution to one person who had a specific medical bill that they attributed to the traffic blockage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins previously filed charges against those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">Bay Bridge protesters\u003c/a>. However, a judge last month ordered them to pay the restitution and do community service instead of going to trial — a move Jenkins said she had to accept but did not support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agarwal said while she could not speak to the details of Monday’s actions, the government can place “reasonable limits on protest” in what is called \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">a “time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>,” by dictating certain parameters to try to ensure safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “even in a situation where the protester does everything that they’re supposed to do, protests are inconvenient. They absolutely create traffic jams. 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He did not confirm how many people were present and what security measures could be taken against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protest activity in the International Terminal, terminal remains open, rerouting passengers around the activity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flights were being rerouted to other gates, and no arrests have been made so far, according to SFO officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1767946886974263571\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 11 a.m., multiple law enforcement units, including those from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office and a swath of nearby police departments, arrived at the scene and appeared ready to make arrests. Protesters began dispersing soon thereafter, and by noon, the action had ended, with no arrests reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yakel confirmed that protesters had dispersed and the roadways and areas in and around the airport that had been previously blocked were now clear. 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The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.’[/pullquote]“Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building,” they said. “The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University campuses have been a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-hamas-college-protest-tulane-29dca6e670639b73f5bfe7bfcf6befee\">hotbed of protest activity\u003c/a> surrounding the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a>, which began following Hamas’ \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-rockets-airstrikes-tel-aviv-11fb98655c256d54ecb5329284fc37d2\">deadly Oct. 7 attack\u003c/a> on Israel. 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And we didn’t expect them to be so angry and so vicious that they banged on the glass doors of Zellerbach playhouse to the point that they shattered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event had been moved to Zellerbach because it was believed to be more secure than the original location, and a team of university police had been sent there. But it wasn’t possible to ensure student safety and that the event could go forward “given the size of the crowd and the threat of violence,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine, in a subsequent statement, said it was “unfortunate” that a window had been broken during the protest, but described it as an isolated incident out of step with the group’s “intent on prioritizing community safety and explicit instructions of non-violent protest.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said that when the university was notified of plans for the protest, it “preemptively heavily militarized the event location with at least 20 armed UCPD officers, who used excessive force to barricade the building and barre pro-Palestinian entry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine called Yoshafat “a dangerous war criminal” and accused the university of protecting him “at the cost of student safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was “an exemplary act of UC Berkeley upholding their values of deeply systemic anti-Palestinian racism that permeates within this institution,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said Wednesday that the university has opened a formal criminal investigation and has initiated its student code-of-conduct process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11969165,news_11972999,news_11972100\"]“We’ve had four formal reports made to our police department,” Mogulof said. “We’ve opened that criminal investigation because we believe there should be consequences for the kind of behavior that we saw on Monday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An allegation of battery along with antisemitic slurs is being investigated as a hate crime, Mogulof said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’ve had four formal reports made to our police department,” Mogulof said. “We’ve opened that criminal investigation because we believe there should be consequences for the kind of behavior that we saw on Monday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An allegation of battery along with antisemitic slurs is being investigated as a hate crime, Mogulof said. A second report alleges a victim was spit at and kicked. A third alleges battery, and the fourth alleges the victim was injured in a scuffle while attempting to hold a door closed. The injuries were described as minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the alleged assailants have been identified, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what the investigation is about,” he said. “All of the video will be reviewed. Social media posts will be reviewed. Unfortunately, most of the protesters were masked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were not sufficient police resources to make arrests at the scene, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ and Hermalin said they respect the right to protest “as intrinsic to the values of democracy and an institution of higher education” but cannot ignore protests that interfere with the rights of others to hear and express their own perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Protesters chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and urged the president to end U.S. aid to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Biden charges donors $100,000 for a ticket to his cocktail party, bombs labeled ‘Made in the USA’ are raining down on civilians in Gaza for the fourth consecutive month, killing over 13,000 Palestinian children and counting,” said Suzanne Ali, a Palestinian Youth Movement member, in a written statement. “How dare he visit San Francisco only to rake in cash, ignoring residents of a city which passed a ceasefire resolution with a supermajority?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976664\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold placards and banners protesting the US president and Israel.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protesters at Alta Plaza Park on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers said they were also concerned by statements from Israeli officials that their military forces could soon launch a ground assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than a million people are reportedly seeking refuge after fleeing Israel’s bombardment of much of the northern Gaza Strip. With Rafah up against Egypt’s border, those people could not go any further south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that there is a permanent cease-fire now,” said Party for Socialism and Liberation member Ramsey Robinson, who spoke at the protest. “That’s our money, stolen from the people, stolen from the taxpayers, and we want to let Joe Biden know that we know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with red shirt and brown clothes speaks into a mic with others standing beside him and a red brick building in the background. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramsey Robinson with the Party for Socialism and Liberation speaks at the protest Wednesday afternoon. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biden will reportedly make multiple campaign stops in San Francisco and Los Altos Hills between Wednesday and Thursday. But Robinson thinks that other than “the tiny number of the super-rich,” Biden isn’t popular in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Suzanne Ali, member, Palestinian Youth Movement\"]‘How dare he visit San Francisco only to rake in cash, ignoring residents of a city which passed a cease-fire resolution with a supermajority?’[/pullquote]“We’ve got to keep coming out and showing face. They like to pretend they don’t see us out here in the streets but we’ve been out here in the streets week after week after week since Oct. 7,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian Youth Movement member Violette Mansour said she condemned wealthy San Franciscans who made donations to the Biden campaign, saying the fact the city passed a resolution supporting a cease-fire is “evidence that San Franciscans oppose his continued support of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people have the power and the people here will demand and continue to make our voices heard because the people who say they represent us do not represent us,” Mansour said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden campaign did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Aguilar (left) said ‘opposing the genocide’ in Gaza is ‘core to her values as a socialist.’ \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian Google employees protested outside Google offices in San Francisco on Thursday to demand the tech giant cancel a $1.2 billion contract — called “Project Nimbus” — with the Israeli government and military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 500 protesters chanted “Google, Google you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” reflecting growing outrage over the contract during Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza. The Israeli Finance Ministry described the Project Nimbus contract as “intended to provide the government, the defense establishment and others with an all-encompassing cloud solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969956\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-13-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside Google offices in downtown San Francisco on Dec. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valerie Kuan, a software engineer at Google who was at the protest, said she doesn’t work on Project Nimbus “but this is an issue that affects all Google workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is looking to exploit all of their workers’ labor to profit off of war and profit off of Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people,” said Kuan, who has worked at Google for a little more than a year. “There are many ways to run a profitable company without supporting genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969954\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"An young woman with Palestinian garb speaks to protesters through a loud speaker.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-03-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator speaks outside Google offices in downtown San Francisco on Dec. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent\u003ca href=\"https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/\"> investigation by +972 Magazine\u003c/a>, an Israeli-Palestinian journalism publication, revealed that the Israeli military is using artificial intelligence to target and assassinate Palestinians in Gaza. The reporting does not identify the source of the technology, but Google workers with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.notechforapartheid.com\">No Tech For Apartheid\u003c/a> campaign claim their company and its Project Nimbus partner, Amazon, are complicit in the Israeli siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Khaled Allen, software engineer, Google\"]‘I have a lot of faith in Google as a company. In general, it is a force for good in the world. Because I believe that, that’s why I’m here.’[/pullquote]Protester Khaled Allen, a Google software engineer of part-Palestinian descent, said he hasn’t been very politically active but that he feels “called to do so now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very connected to the issue because of my background,” said Allen, who has been at Google for two years. “I have a lot of faith in Google as a company. In general, it is a force for good in the world. 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These contracts are part of a disturbing pattern of militarization, lack of transparency and avoidance of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot look the other way, as the products we build are used to deny Palestinians their basic rights, force Palestinians out of their homes and attack Palestinians in the Gaza Strip — actions that have prompted war crime investigations by the\u003ca href=\"https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=210303-prosecutor-statement-investigation-palestine\"> international criminal court\u003c/a>,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside Google offices in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Google did not respond to KQED’s request for comment for this story, but in an email to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, it wrote that Project Nimbus was not a military program, adding that the protest “is part of a longstanding campaign by a group of organizations and people who largely don’t work at Google.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been very clear that the Nimbus contract is for workloads running on our commercial platform by Israeli government ministries such as finance, healthcare, transportation, and education,” the statement added. “Our work is not directed at highly sensitive or classified military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969957\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside Google offices in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, a group of Palestinian Google employees and their allied colleagues spoke out anonymously in a public video about the anti-Palestinian bias they said they witnessed at the company. One Palestinian Google employee said she felt like she was making her living “off the oppression of my family back home.” Another Palestinian Google employee said, “Google’s Project Nimbus will be a big ugly moment in Google’s history and a shameful and embarrassing engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GI-ePG0rTA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another group of workers recently published an\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/googleopenletter-868f0c4477db\"> open letter\u003c/a> addressed to Google leadership accusing the company of a double standard that allows for “freedom of expression for Israeli Googlers versus Arab, Muslim and Palestinian Googlers.” The unsigned letter was attributed to “Muslim, Palestinian and Arab Google employees joined by anti-Zionist Jewish colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQt-eWcx-7rZxWTlx0dngRvhn_goqMdl8bPhqvucPiEenbd6KNpLGe-I_QLPLg1_K37Yrkp86ks4RXl/pub\"> unsigned open letter\u003c/a>, published in mid-October, a group of Google employees demanded the company cancel its Project Nimbus contract “and immediately cease doing business with the Israeli apartheid government and military.” The letter goes on to demand that Google leadership “issue a public condemnation of the ongoing genocide in the strongest possible terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Protester Khaled Allen, a Google software engineer of part-Palestinian descent, said he hasn’t been very politically active but that he feels “called to do so now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very connected to the issue because of my background,” said Allen, who has been at Google for two years. “I have a lot of faith in Google as a company. In general, it is a force for good in the world. Because I believe that, that’s why I’m here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the protest grew Thursday night, a dozen protesters lay down on the sidewalk and covered themselves with white sheets bearing the Google logo. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-press-on-despite-rising-deaths-tolls-on-both-sides-afe9787f\">More than 18,600 people in Gaza\u003c/a> have been killed in the war, most of them women and children, according to Gaza health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969953\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-02-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside Google offices in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2021 anonymous open letter to Google and Amazon published in\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/12/google-amazon-workers-condemn-project-nimbus-israeli-military-contract\">\u003cem> The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, employees described watching their companies “aggressively pursue contracts with institutions like the US Department of Defense, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and state and local police departments. These contracts are part of a disturbing pattern of militarization, lack of transparency and avoidance of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot look the other way, as the products we build are used to deny Palestinians their basic rights, force Palestinians out of their homes and attack Palestinians in the Gaza Strip — actions that have prompted war crime investigations by the\u003ca href=\"https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=210303-prosecutor-statement-investigation-palestine\"> international criminal court\u003c/a>,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-12-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside Google offices in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Google did not respond to KQED’s request for comment for this story, but in an email to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, it wrote that Project Nimbus was not a military program, adding that the protest “is part of a longstanding campaign by a group of organizations and people who largely don’t work at Google.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been very clear that the Nimbus contract is for workloads running on our commercial platform by Israeli government ministries such as finance, healthcare, transportation, and education,” the statement added. “Our work is not directed at highly sensitive or classified military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969957\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-GazaGoogleProtest-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside Google offices in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, a group of Palestinian Google employees and their allied colleagues spoke out anonymously in a public video about the anti-Palestinian bias they said they witnessed at the company. 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