Police arrested multiple demonstrators at an anti-Israel protest at the University of Georgia on Monday morning after they had set up an encampment on the front lawn.
Organized by the group Students for Justice in Palestine, the protesters erected a camp on the Old College Front Lawn near the north campus, demanding that the university offer “solidarity, protection, and the disclosure and divestment of financial relationships with zionist organizations.”
“Our universities have chosen profit over the lives of the Palestinian people and the overwhelming force of student opinion. Our administrators are more concerned with maintaining their prestigious reputations than the Israeli occupation’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians,” the group wrote. “Their supposed power is nothing compared to the united strength of students, faculty, and
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