Harvard: Pro-Palestine protesters at Harvard University raised three Palestinian flags over the John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard – a spot reserved for the US flag or for flags of countries of visiting foreign dignitaries. Harvard Police officers called the Harvard Yard Operations to subsequently take down the flag. As the authorities removed the Palestinian flags, chants of ‘shame’ and ‘free Palestine’ reverberated in the yard.
According to The Harvard Crimson, a student protester also tried to snatch the flag away from the authorities who had taken the Palestinian flag down. On Saturday alone, some 275 people were arrested at various campuses, including Indiana University at Bloomington, Arizona State University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Harvard spokesperson told the student newspaper of the university that raising the flags was “a violation of University policy and the individuals involved will be subject to disciplinary action.”
The University of California, Los Angeles on Sunday witnessed skirmishes between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Sources reveal that demonstrators broke through a barrier that the school had set up to separate the two factions.
Protests continued on Sunday at George Washington University’s campus in Washington, DC, where students erected dozens of tents in a park and the adjacent street. Demonstrators, with some wearing traditional keffiyeh and waving Palestinian flags, chanted “Free Palestine.
Meanwhile, at a refugee camp in southern Gaza’s Rafah, Palestinian students staged a display of solidarity to express gratitude for the support seen on US college campuses. The students held banners that said “Students of Columbia University, continue to stand by us”.
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