Students at Swarthmore College have set up an encampment on campus and refuse to move until their demands that the school divest itself from Israel are met.
Pro-Palestinian protests continue at colleges across the nation. Tents can still be seen at the University of Pennsylvania Friday, but Penn isn’t the only local campus with demonstrations.About 30 tents and dozens of students are occupying Parrish Lawn in the center of campus at Swarthmore College, as the protest against the war in Gaza mirrors demonstrations happening on college campuses all over the country.Student Ragad A.
Swarthmore junior Owen Moss said, "I will say, the protests have made it a really challenging environment for Jewish students."He has been walking by the encampment every day and feels the protest is taking attention away from the war itself. "All that I see is attention being taken away from the actual war. Which, regardless of your political views, it’s terrible. War itself is sad, but what I see all over the news now, it’s not about the war, not about real victims.
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