Hundreds of University of Chicago students set up an encampment in the Main Quadrangle on Monday, joining groups on over 100 university campuses nationwide in support of Palestinians.
Hundreds of University of Chicago students set up an encampment in the Main Quadrangle on Monday, joining groups on over 100 university campuses nationwide in support of Palestinians.
They called on the university to divest from companies doing business with Israel or manufacturing weapons.
Rayna A., a senior at the University of Chicago who helped organize the encampment, said the protesters also want more money allocated to education and housing on the South Side.
“From this divestment campaign to the divestment campaigns all around the world, we demand divestment, repair, justice, freedom for all Palestinians,” Moon G., an incoming master’s student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, told the crowd.
Nearby, Israeli flags hung on a line strung between two lamp posts.
Rayna said the university “refuses to be in conversation” about the demands and turned down requests for a public meeting regarding divestment from Israel in the fall.
