The University of Virginia called in the Virginia State Police to disperse “UVA Encampment for Gaza” protesters, said President Jim Ryan, University Police Chief Tim Longo, and other University leaders in a virtual town hall.
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“It is good to know that the University of Virginia set boundaries and enforced them, unlike other universities and states.“
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Pro-Palestinian protestors erected tents last night at their “liberation zone for Gaza” near the University of Virginia chapel in defiance of orders to take them down. The administration’s immediate response: engage in dialogue.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the Grounds of the University of Virginia showed signs of losing enthusiasm, even as organizers demanded that the administration divest investments from Israel and cut off all ties with Israeli universities.
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While the Grounds remained orderly, there were some darker undercurrents.
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Virginia Governer Youngkin: “We’re not going to have encampments and tents put up and yes, we will protect the ability to peacefully express yourself, but we’re not going to have the kind of hate speech and intimidation we’re seeing across the country in Virginia.”
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Alumnus to TJC after UVA tour: “No history lesson of the Grounds, its architecture, or its purpose. No homage to TJ and his vision for the advancement of an enlightened society. No fabled stories about the secret societies, or traditions at the sporting events or around Grounds. Nothing.”
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Virginia Tech arrested two dozen or more students Sunday night while dispersing an “encampment” similar to other anti-Israeli protests spreading around the country, according to media reports. University of Virginia President Jim Ryan likely will face a similar test.
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Dr. Tiffany King, a tenured professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Women, Sexuality, and Gender, spoke in a virtual symposium “At the Edge of Each Other’s Battles: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black, and Indigenous Futures.”
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Whatever UVA leadership might have said to people in private, their words and actions have been ineffectual in altering the reality that pro-Palestinian students feel comfortable wearing their badges of loyalty while most Jews have stopped wearing theirs.
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