Facing deadline, pro-Palestinian protesters at Rutgers agree to disperse, take down tents

Rutgers University students at a pro-Palestinian encampment and rally on Voorhees Mall in New Brunswick shortly before agreeing to leave.by police, a group of pro-Palestinian students encamped on the main campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick quietly backed down Thursday under a 4 p.m. deadline to leave or face a response by law enforcement.

As the deadline approached, there was no real show of force by police, some of whom could be seen in the background but making to effort to put an end to the encamplment. But there were soon clear signs that the protest had come to an end. He spoke to the crowd of hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters at about 15 minutes before the university’s deadline to disperse the encampment and drew a rousing ovation after his three-minute speech, speaking about how his father was taken from his home at gunpoint and moved to Gaza as a refugee in 1948.

At one point, a group of faculty stood arm-to-arm to form a ring around the protesters, apparently as a show of support. “It’s not peaceful. All these signs are hurtful, it’s frustrating, she said. “I don’t understand how this has been allowed for as long as it has been, they say the rudest things. This is my greatest fear coming to reality,” comparing current events to the Holocaust.

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