CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — University of Chicago students who set up a tent camp on the quad over the war in Gaza discussed the police raid that dismantled the camp this week.
Hassan Doostdar, a member of UChicago United for Palestine, addressed members of the press and listed all of the universities and colleges in Gaza that have been bombed.
“President Paul Alivisatos published an article in the Wall Street Journal to justify his aggressive choice,” Doostdar said. “He said this police raid was his way of ‘resisting the forces tearing at the fabric of higher education.’”
Doostdar called Alivisatos’ remarks “deeply disgusting and hypocritical” due to the destruction of higher education campuses in Gaza.
The students said they’ll continue fighting. One said they are the camp — not the tents. Others also spoke about being roughed up by university police during what one called a “cowardly raid.”
Discussion also continued this week regarding earlier protests at Northwestern.
In a pair of op-ed's published in the Chicago Tribune, both the president of Northwestern University and a student who recently resigned from her position on the university's antisemitism committee shared their perspectives of the pro-Palestinian protests on school campuses.
President Michael Schill wrote that his agreement with protesters came out of an understanding that students are “not a mob, but young people in the process of learning.”
Schill said he was focused on protecting the entire community, including Jewish students.
Former antisemitism committee member Lily Cohen, though, wrote that she felt both emotionally and psychologically disregarded by the university.
Cohen wrote that, over time, she came to see her committee as “completely performative.”
Meanwhile, students continue to protest on DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus.
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