Dueling pro-Palestinian and counter protests planned at UCLA campus

Overnight, pro-Palestinian protesters expanded their campus encampment outside to stretch from the top of the Janss Steps to the east end of Royce Hall.Dueling demonstrations are set at UCLA on Sunday by outside groups planning to show support for a growing encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus along with counter-protesters rallying around the university's Jewish students.

Overnight, pro-Palestinian protesters expanded their campus encampment outside to stretch from the top of the Janss Steps to the east end of Royce Hall.The growing number of pro-Palestinian protester has been met with an equally fervent group of counter-protesters who have played loud music near the encampment and shouted chants about Palestinian preceded by an obscenity, according to the Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper.

Organizers of UCLA's"Palestine Solidarity Encampment,'' similar to their counterparts at USC, issued a list of demands calling for divestment of all University of California and UCLA Foundation funds from companies tied to Israel, along with a demand that the university call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and an academic boycott by UC against Israeli universities, including a suspension of study-abroad programs.

Palestine, that the genocide is immediately ended and that our university is no longer complicit in human rights violations.”

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