Drexel University on lockdown as president calls for end to anti-Israel protests
Drexel University is on lockdown and Philadelphia police are responding as anti-Israel students established an encampment at the school.
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Drexel University is on lockdown and Philadelphia police are responding as anti-Israel students established an encampment at the school.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have been on Drexel University's campus in Philadelphia for about 24 hours as of Sunday evening.
Protesters are currently facing “approximately 14 pending violation-level offenses." Only one individual has been charged with an actual criminal offense — resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.
In the aftermath of a stand-off between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel demonstrators at the Deering Meadow encampment on the morning of Sunday, April 28, those at the “Northwestern Liberation Zone” formed a human chain to prevent counterprotesters from entering the space they had occupied for the previous four days. As I walked by this scene, I...
In one instance, a graduate was wearing a T-shirt splattered with fake blood and the words "NEU Kills."