Olin Library News Today

As we learn to advocate for our clients and communities, to further social justice, and to challenge institutional and systemic oppression, we find the Brown School’s silence on the genocide in Palestine fundamentally hypocritical and thoroughly in opposition to our institutional values.

Opinion: No other group would be expected to tolerate the escalating incidents of hate except the Jewish community.

Protesters have spoken out against Washington University’s administration after the WashU Police Department (WUPD) carried out more than 100 arrests at a pro-Palestine encampment, with some calling the response unnecessarily violent, April 27.

Videos have gone viral of faculty members being taken to the ground, zip-tied, and led away by police. Amid recent crackdowns on pro-Palestinian encampments by campus police and outside law enforcement agencies, a new spectacle went viral online: faculty members being zip-tied and arrested.

Students were scrambling for a place to live and professors were wondering if theyd teach again after they were barred from Washington Universitys campus following an anti-war protest that ended

Chancellor Martin condemned the pro-Palestine protests and encampment that happened on Saturday April 27, in a statement issued via email to the student body, April 29.

Andrew Martin says 23 of the 100 people arrested on Saturday were students

The students launched the encampment, they said, following similar protests at Columbia University and other colleges and universities across the United States.

Around 250 Washington University students and community members staged a pro-Palestine march from Forest park to Olin Library and set up an encampment just outside the library before moving it to the East End of campus, April 27.

Washington University students have established an encampment on campus to call for divestment from Boeing, which manufactures weapons as well as planes, and in a show of support for Palestinians in Gaza.