On Thursday, March 14, a protest against Shalhoub-Kevorkian's suspension was held on campus. Jews and Palestinians, students and faculty, sat on the ground with their mouths taped shut. The protest escalated into screaming, curses, telling people to "Go to Gaza", calling people "traitors against their own people", and even reportedly a death threat. Many of those screaming at the protesters carried guns, which have been allowed on campus for the first time as a result of changes prompted by the October 7th attacks and resulting war.
Thankfully this protest ended without incident.
However, after the incident, photographs of two of the faculty members who participated in the protest were shared widely in right wing WhatsApp groups - it seems that because the administration caved in the case of a smear campaign against Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the far-right aims to eliminate as many 'wrong thinking' professors as possible.
Furthermore, a Palestinian student who participated in the protest had his dorm room raided without a warrant, and was then arrested and questioned. (The protest involved *no* illegal action of civil disobedience.)
9/13
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