Pro-Palestinian protests continue at Bay Area universities

At least a hundred students have setup camp at the White Memorial Plaza in Stanford. The chanting for Gaza picked up after it got dark out Thursday evening.Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.

At least a hundred students have setup camp here on Campus at White Memorial Plaza. At this point, no arrests have been made and police have not cleared this area. The chanting for Gaza picked up after it got dark out Thursday evening. "I've been watching the student protest across the country and I really feel as a community member we need to stand with the students who are standing with the people in Gaza and not enough people are standing up so the students actions are so inspiring and such an example to the adults and our elected officials who have really not been speaking out and standing up the way they should," said community member Michelle Higgins.

It is day four of the Free Palestine Camp at UC Berkeley, and students say they don't plan to give up. "They camped out on the same steps we are on now. So we draw a lot of inspiration from that," Collins said.The students have four main demands. First, for UC Berkeley to officially declare what is happening in Gaza is "genocide." They also want the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel or weapons manufacturing. And, for more transparency.

"I, myself, never thought that a professor would be able to put her hands on me, and be able to walk away without any consequences. But here we are. And it points to the deep-seated Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism that is embedded in these institutions," said Afaneh, who is among those camped out at Sproul Hall.

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