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“This is not some sort of little group of friends who decided to go to a protest together. …We are part of a national and international struggle.”
Students rallied in front of the student union at 2 p.m. before marching to the Whitmore building to meet with administrators to demand that Chancellor Javier Reyes condemn the Israel
The demonstration was staged at the Whitmore Administration Building, where students demanded Chancellor Javier Reyes condemn the Israel Defense Forces' attacks on Gaza and cut the university’s ties with defense contractor Raytheon Technology. Campus Police arrested 56 UMass Amherst students and one UMass Amherst employee for trespassing in the building after hours, the university said.
Fifty-seven pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were arrested by campus police Wednesday night for trespassing during a sit-in...
Raytheon representatives struggled to answer tough and aggressive questions by Dissenters at an engineering event.