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Police Arrest Palestinian Solidarity Protesters at University of Washington, Swarthmore College

HeadlineMay 06, 2025

In Washington state, police arrested some 30 student activists overnight after they occupied the University of Washington’s engineering building to protest their school’s ties with weapons maker Boeing. The group Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return are demanding “that our tuition money and our research not be used to fund and fuel genocide.”

In Pennsylvania, nine people were violently arrested Saturday at Swarthmore College as police disbanded a Gaza solidarity encampment that had been named the “Hossam Shabat Liberated Zone,” in honor of the 23-year-old Palestinian journalist killed by Israel in March. Students are demanding Swarthmore “divest from Israeli occupation, aggression, and apartheid, and declare itself a sanctuary campus.”

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