13 pro-Palestine protesters had been arrested at Stanford College Wednesday after they barricaded themselves inside the varsity president’s workplace constructing.
Protesters occupied Constructing 10 — the place the places of work of Stanford’s president and provost are situated — to demand the college divest from firms supporting Israel’s battle in Gaza, in line with The New York Occasions.
Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez stated in an announcement {that a} public security officer was injured by protesters. Injury was finished contained in the constructing, and graffiti exterior conveyed “vile and hateful sentiments.”
The assertion stated that arrested college students can be instantly suspended, and seniors won’t be allowed to graduate.
The Stanford Day by day reported that considered one of its journalists masking the protest was amongst these arrested.
Saller and Martinez additionally stated Wednesday that an encampment at Stanford protesting Israel’s battle had been eliminated.
“The state of affairs on campus has now crossed the road from peaceable protest to actions that threaten the security of our group,” they wrote. Whereas the college values “peaceable and reasoned debate,” it condemns “any actions like those who had been taken at this time.”
Roughly 3,000 protesters have been arrested on US school campuses, in line with the Occasions. The 13 arrests at Stanford are dwarfed by the upwards of 200 arrests that beforehand occurred at Columbia College and UCLA.
