The first faculty-led anti-Israel encampment was established on Wednesday at The New School in New York City.
Faculty from the college set up tents in the lobby and established the Refaat Alareer Faculty Solidarity Encampment, days after officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) cleared encampments at The New School and New York University.
The NYPD ended up arresting 45 students involved in the encampment, according to the New School Free Press.
Fewer than a dozen tents could be seen set up in the lobby.
“On Wednesday afternoon, autonomous faculty members at The New School launched the first faculty-led encampment in the nation,” New School’s Students for Justice in Palestine (TNS-SJP) said in a statement. “The action follows the mass arrests
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