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Graduation Protests for Gaza at Univ. of Chicago, Vassar; Columbia Students Set Up 3rd Encampment

HeadlineJun 03, 2024

At the University of Chicago, dozens of students walked out of their commencement ceremony after school officials withheld diplomas from four seniors who had participated in a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus. Protesters could be heard screaming “Stop genocide” during the ceremony.

At Vassar College in New York, hundreds of alumni disrupted the school’s reunion weekend. More than 1,200 Vassar alumni have vowed to withhold donations until the school cuts ties with companies supplying Israel with weapons.

Here in New York City, students at Columbia University set up a new encampment named “Revolt for Rafah” on Friday as the school held its Alumni Reunion Weekend.

Also in New York, student protesters disrupted commencement ceremonies at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work. Protesters displayed banners with the logos of universities destroyed in Gaza.

Meanwhile, on Friday, New York police arrested 34 protesters as they attempted to occupy the Brooklyn Museum. We will air footage from the action later in the program.

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