Pro-Palestinian protests continue among groups on UT campus

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators carried on Thursday despite a drone buzzing high above their blue tarp on the University of Texas at Austin’s South Lawn.

AUSTIN - Police watched from a distance, as organizers led a discussion about their calls for the university to divest from Israel – the reason they say have shown up again and again, despite two clashes with state troopers that led to the arrest of 136 people combined.

Nearly 80 UT Austin protesters held in jail overnight after arrests from Gaza demonstration “Us just being here really is a show of, we will not be deterred,” said Rawan Channaa, a senior with the Palestine Solidarity Committee student group. “They can try their scare tactics and the intimidation, but the community is going to show out and we’re going to have our voices heard eventually.

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