University of Nebraska joins wave of campus protests in support of Palestine, Gaza
Source: Nebraska Examiner
By: Zach Wendling - May 1, 2024 9:35 pm
LINCOLN — More than 100 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and community members gathered on campus in support of Palestine on Wednesday, joining a host of universities nationwide.
UNL’s 10-hour “Liberated Zone for Palestine,” organized as a one-day event by Lincoln and UNL local chapters in support of Palestinians, set a different tone than other campus protests, which have featured multiple days of encampments and students barricading themselves inside school buildings. Many protests faced arrests or condemnation from local, state and federal leaders.
Instead, the Lincoln event focused on short teach-ins, dances, chants and four demands made throughout the peaceful, daylong protest:
Disclose any university investments into Israel.
Divest from those commitments.
End a UNL-sponsored study abroad program in Jerusalem.
Prohibit future acceptance of grants or funds from Israel.
“We’re here because there are students, professors, administration and staff in Gaza who are experiencing a genocide,” Anna Synya, a UNL senior, told the Nebraska Examiner.
Protesters gathered at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in solidarity with Palestinians, joining a host of other campus protests nationwide, demanding dislcosure and divestment of university investments into Israel. May 1, 2024.(Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
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