Pro-Palestinian Protesters Reach Agreement with UC Riverside to End Encampment

Published on May 6, 2024

Pro-Palestinian student groups and UC Riverside officials agreed May 3 to end their five-day protest encampment under specific conditions. Students at the University of California Riverside campus started their encampment on April 29, pressing the university to disclose investments and funding tied to Israel and to divest from entities complicit in what they called “the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide [of Palestinians].” The two sides started negotiations May 1. “Since Wednesday, several UC Riverside campus leaders have been meeting with the leaders of the student encampment on campus,” said UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox in a statement. “It has been my goal to resolve this matter peacefully and I am encouraged by this outcome—which was generated through constructive dialogue.”...

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