9 arrested as pro-Palestinian encampment broken up at Swarthmore College

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Swarthmore College Anti-Israel Encampment Thwarted, 9 Arrested

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) occupy a section of Swarthmore College on April 30-May 3, 2025. (Protesters’ faces were obfuscated by SJP, not The Algemeiner). Photo: Screenshot. Nine students and non-students were arrested by law enforcement at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Saturday after they disobeyed orders to clear a pro-Hamas encampment which illegally occupied the institution’s Trotter Lawn section of campus. According to …

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UCLA Gaza Protesters Sue Cops for Shooting Them in the Head With Rubber Bullets

Police conspired to violently attacks anti-genocide protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles last year, according to a suit filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court.  At the height of the school’s encampment against Israel’s war on Gaza last spring, one of hundreds across the country, a mob of pro-Israel protesters attacked pro-Palestine protesters for more than four hours. On the night of April 30, 2024, police stood by and …

Two US colleges crack down on anti-Israel protestors

Swarthmore College has police arrest masked demonstrators, while NYU Law bans 31 protestors from campus. By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News Two U.S. colleges cracked down Saturday on anti-Israel protestors, saying their actions were against university rules. In Swarthmore College, a small, four-day-old encampment set up by a suspended chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, was taken down and nine people were arrested. The participants …

Camps are being cleared, critical students are being deported, and others are on trial: the fight against the repression of Palestine solidarity at US universities must be waged together.