Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman Thursday, May 2, 2024
Many more Americans — both on and off the nation’s campuses — will be suffering “protest fatigue” before 2024 is over. As the week started, Rutgers University joined the long list of institutions whose campuses have been taken over by anti-Israel/pro-Hamas demonstrators.
The tents were set up in the heart of Rutgers-New Brunswick on Monday afternoon during a protest march announced by the university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a political organization involved in student-led protests demanding a cease-fire on college campuses across the nation.
The students are part of a growing movement of college students occupying campus spaces and asking university leadership to divest from Israeli corporate and cultural interests.
The Rutgers encampment took place peacefully and without interference from university administration on the greens on Voorhees Mall, a member of the group and junior on campus who did not want to be identified said in an interview.
“We will not leave Voorhees Mall the same way Palestinians in Gaza refuse to leave their homes until our demands are met,” the Rutgers-SJP group said in a press release, referring to university administrators’ “not acknowledging” Palestinian students.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall we covered Rutges’ experience with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) earlier this year. Masked SJP members listed demands for the campus during a press conference in front of a sign that said, “Rutgers profits off of Palestinian suffering,” and wearing the traditional Arab headscarf, the keffiyeh. That was after the student government enabled SJP antics by forking over $20,000 for teach-ins and conferences.
However, the tide may be turning against the hate-campers. Rutgers students now complain of “protest fatigue” and want the encampment gone.
More:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/05/rutgers-university-students-now-complaining-of-protest-fatigue/
