The pro-Palestine protestors of West Lafayette/Purdue genuinely have done as much as possible to comply with Purdue administration demands, including taking camping equipment down and putting it back up every night/day, as well as taking night shifts to not sleep, not using blankets during the cold nights, and making sure all parts of the camp equipment were safe and complied to all possible safety standards (as checked by a Purdue fire marshal).
Any university crack-down towards its students will harm Palestinian, other Arab, and Muslim students first (especially the Purdue branch of SJP), and protestors have been very aware of this throughout. Additionally, Purdue's affiliations with Israel have tangible, material connections that harm Palestinians and uphold the apartheid state. It's such a shame Purdue has chosen to support genocide and perpetuate Zionism and Islamophobia, but this will not dishearten or stop us.
Pro-Palestine activists have been peacefully protesting Purdue's ties to Israel and calling for a ceasefire by setting up an encampment. Purdue University has been pushing back on this, up to charging 4 Purdue students, one of whom is an international Palestinian student, with Code of Conduct cases. Please contact the above numbers and emails to express your support for these students (especially the Palestinian student), and your disapproval against the university's needless censorship and violation of its own free speech policy!
This is time sensitive, as these student's case dates are coming up, although University administration are still being uncooperative and vague as to concrete times.
Purdue cares about its image, so let it know that its refusal to divest from Israel, and its choice to attack students, is unacceptable and brings shame to this institution.
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Purdue administration has begun threatening “disciplinary proceedings” against protesters on Memorial Mall as a relatively quiet protest in
Organizers of the “Purdue Liberation Zone” received an email from Purdue on Monday at midnight warning them to remove the structure built on
Here are two Purdue Exponent (the school's newspaper) articles on the encampment. As the encampment has had minimal police presence or counter-protesting (mainly due to the protesters' peacefulness), it has largely only made local news.
Additionally, if you have Instagram, check out sjppurdue and ydsapurdue. Their recent posts go into more detail on this situation and the encampment.
