At 1:30pm on Thursday, November 9, approximately a hundred Reed College students, led by the Reed Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), walked out of class to demand “an immediate ceasefire, an end to U.S. military aid to Israel, [and] an end to the siege on Gaza.” Students marched behind a banner reading “Intifada Everywhere,” while chanting slogans including, “Mobilize the intifada,” “Palestine is our demand / no peace on stolen land,” “When Palestine is under attack / What do we do? Stand up, fight back,” “Hey hey, ho ho / Israel Has Got to Go,” and “There is only one solution / intifada revolution!” ...
Read MoreOn Sunday afternoon, a convoy of vehicles displaying Israeli and U.S. flagsdrove through the east campus parking lot and Eliot Circle. These externalindividuals confronted some Reed students in ways that were dangerousand intimidating. From what we know at this time, the drivers andpassengers were people who are not part of the Reed College community,and their threatening actions were not welcome on our campus. ...
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