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May 6, 2025

Police Arrest Palestinian Solidarity Protesters at University of Washington, Swarthmore College
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In Washington state, police arrested some 30 student activists overnight
after they occupied the University of Washington's engineering building
to protest their school's ties with weapons maker Boeing. The group
Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return are demanding "that
our tuition money and our research not be used to fund and fuel
genocide."

In Pennsylvania, nine people were violently arrested Saturday at
Swarthmore College as police disbanded a Gaza solidarity encampment that
had been named the "Hossam Shabat Liberated Zone," in honor of the
23-year-old Palestinian journalist killed by Israel in March. Students
are demanding Swarthmore "divest from Israeli occupation, aggression,
and apartheid, and declare itself a sanctuary campus."


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