Brown U suspends Students for Justice in Palestine chapter

” Brown is commonly painted in the media as the college that ‘really chatted with protestors,'” the team wrote in a declaration. “Do not be fooled: this is a smokescreen for their unrelenting project of bureaucratic violence over the past year.”

Brown University briefly suspended its Trainees for Justice in Palestine chapter for disorderly conduct after activists protested the Corporation of Brown University’s choice not to unload from business that help Israel in its war versus Hamas, according to The Boston World.

The firm, Brown’s regulating body, voted versus divestment Oct. 8. The protest that brought about SJP’s suspension occurred Oct. 18 and was the initial major pro-Palestinian activity given that the vote. One pro-Israel trustee, Joseph Edelman, resigned from the company before the vote, claiming the reality that the university would even consider divestment was “ethically reprehensible.”

Student protesters marched around the Brown Medical School, where company participants were conference. Some held banners that read “Free Palestine” and “F$&@! YOU CPAX” while others banged on containers and screamed “Pity!” at firm participants as they walked out of the building.

The Brown Divest Coalition, a group of pro-Palestinian students urging the university to reassess its investments, stated the penalty was “a continuation of Brown’s initiatives to daunt any person and everyone who tries to hold [it] liable.”

“While Brown’s policies explain that protest is a acceptable and required means of expression on campus, demonstration can not interfere with the regular functions of the college,” Clark said when he announced the suspension. “We are devoted to maintaining freedom of expression while likewise respecting the dignity and mankind of others.”