Pro-Palestinian Encampment at University of Chicago Demands Reparations, Defunding Police

Pro-Palestinian Encampment at University of Chicago Demands Reparations, Defunding Police


Pro-Palestinian protesters involved in an encampment at the University of Chicago issued a wide list of demands, including calling for defunding the campus police and reparations.

The encampment, which has been called the “U Chicago Popular University of Gaza,” issued a long list of demands during a rally on Tuesday, during which a protester announced not only that they were demanding  the university “divest” from Israel, but that the university divest from “interrelated forces of death and violence” including “fossil fuel production,” according to Fox News.

“The U Chicago Popular University For Gaza demands that U Chicago, divest from the Gaza genocide. We demand that U Chicago, divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel and its partnerships with militarized Israeli universities, and cut ties with the

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