UCSD protests continue with walkout, call for UC system to divest from Israel

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The walkout, organized in part by the Healthcare Workers for Palestine San Diego chapter, saw more than 100 members of the UCSD community chant and march to Chancellor Pradeep Khosla's home off campus.

UC San Diego students waved Palestinian flags during another walkout demonstration in protest of the university's response to the situation in Gaza on Wednesday.

"All people of conscience have woken up to the fact that the apartheid state of Israel, with total U.S. backing, is committing genocide against the Palestinian people," said Leslie Meyer, a UCSD lecturer."Our clear-eyed and courageous students, some with loved ones in Gaza where U.S. bombs are falling and famine is spreading, assembled to demand that their school end its complicity in this most serious of crimes.

A woman drove through the protest as it arrived at Khosla's residence, honking and telling the marchers to go home. She parked and quickly walked over to confront the protesters. Following Monday's clearing of an encampment erected by pro-Palestinian protesters, protesters are calling for Khosla's resignation, and some members of UCSD's faculty are echoing those sentiments.

Khosla said the encampment violated campus policy and the law and grew to pose"an unacceptable risk to the safety of the campus community."The arrests prompted a large group of protesters to gather Monday outside the San Diego Central Jail in downtown, chanting for the protesters' release.

 

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