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Protesters Establish Encampment at George Washington University

Anti-Israeli protesters established an encampment Thursday on the campus of George Washington University (GWU), in Washington, DC.

The DMV Coalition of Students for Justice in Palestine organized a “joint encampment” that was established on GWU’s campus in University Yard on Thursday morning, in response to an Instagram post from Students for Justice in Palestine at GWU (SJPGWU), a scholar group.

“As our people discover mass graves of our martyrs in Gaza, it is our moral imperative to disrupt business as usual for an end to institutional cooperation in genocide,” SJPGWU wrote referring to a “mass grave” hoax that has circulated in current days.

Nick Kristof, a radical left-wing columnist with the New York Times, circulated the “mass grave” hoax in a put up on X. People akin to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have spread Kristof’s hoax.

Hamas, a U.S.-designated Islamic terror group claimed on Saturday that greater than 200 our bodies had been discovered in a mass grave at Nasser Hospital, the place of a earlier raid, in Khan Younis, a metropolis in Gaza, in response to the Times of Israel.

The our bodies, Hamas claimed, had been buried by Israeli forces. Officials from the United Nations additionally claimed a number of the our bodies had been “found with their hands tied and stripped of their clothes.”

This allegation was thought-about “baseless,” by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) which famous that “forces searching for Israeli hostages had examined bodies previously buried by Palestinians near Nasser Hospital and had returned the bodies to where they were buried after they were examined.”

“It has been documented that Palestinians buried their dead at the hospital grounds both before and while Israeli troops operated in the area,” the outlet reported.

The IDF additionally defined that whereas it had performed an operation within the space of the hospital, IDF troops had “examined corpses that had been buried by Palestinians,” in an try and find Israeli hostages.

“Each university must protect pro-Palestinian speech on campus,” a speaker may very well be heard saying at the protest at GWU. “Each university must divest from companies selling technology and weapons to the Zionist regime.”

Happening at the pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

“Each university must protect pro-Palestinian speech on campus. Each university must divest from companies selling technology and weapons to the Zionist regime.” pic.twitter.com/wh20sgeaZL

— Elizabeth Weibel (@elfaddis) April 25, 2024

Students gathered at the pro-Palestinian protest may very well be heard chanting, “The students united will never be defeated.”

Students at @GWtweets gathered at the anti-Israel encampment on campus.

Chanting:

“The students united will never be defeated!” pic.twitter.com/XPIoRwfXp5

— Elizabeth Weibel (@elfaddis) April 25, 2024

Protesters at the encampment have been reportedly informed by officers that they may “protest until 7 p.m.,” and after that point, they needed to “take down the encampment,” campus newspaper, the GW Hatchet, reported.

The outlet reported in an replace at 9:27 p.m. that the “demonstrators have shown no indications of relocating or clearing the tents from the area.”

As of 9:43 p.m., organizers of the encampment have been getting ready to rearrange in a single day preparations for demonstrators and “obtain more tents” if wanted, in response to the outlet.

The anti-Israel encampment on GWU’s campus comes after an anti-Israel encampment was established on the garden at Columbia University in New York final Wednesday, leading to a number of college students, akin to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter, Isra Hirsi, being suspended from Barnard College and greater than 100 protesters being arrested attributable to their involvement within the encampment.

Since then, anti-Israel protests, rallies, and encampments have erupted throughout faculty and college campuses within the United States, such because the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, the University of North Carolina, Northwestern University, and the University of Southern California, in support of the preliminary encampment at Columbia University.

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