University of Georgia law enforcement and Georgia State Patrol arrested pro-Hamas protesters during an anti-Israel demonstration at the Athens campus. The activists were part of Students for Justice of Palestine.
The protesters staged their demonstration on Monday morning to urge the university to cut ties with Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
According to a statement from the group, they set up the encampment to “demand university solidarity, protection, and the disclosure and divestment of financial relationships with zionist organizations.”
“Our universities have chosen profit over the lives of the Palestinian people and the overwhelming force of student opinion. Our administrators are more concerned with maintaining their prestigious reputations than the Israeli occupation’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians,” the group wrote. “Their supposed power is nothing compared to…
