With chants of "from the river to the sea," Thursday's protestors said they were there to urge George Washington University's administration to divest from businesses profiting off of the war in Gaza, as well as to disclose whether the university's endowment fund had invested in any of those businesses.
Moataz Salim, a GWU graduate student and Palestinian-American, headed to the university's lawn at 5 AM this morning. Much of his extended family in Gaza had been killed in Israeli airstrikes, he said.
GW has been complicit in the genocide...this is our money, we're paying into the institution...meet us where we're at.
What's new this time is the encampments-the pop-up demonstrations with tents, which began at Columbia University earlier this month-as student activists look for a more lasting, in-your-face way to make themselves heard.
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