Counter-protestors with the Israeli-American Council marched at the University of Pennsylvania's campus to call on school officials to end the pro-Palestine…
Members of the Israeli-American Council descended on the University of Pennsylvania's campus on Thursday morning, to call on school officials to end the ongoing protest over the war in GazaCounter-protestors in support of the Jewish community rallied at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday in an effort to call for an end to the ongoing encampment of pro-Palestine activists on the school's campus.
"We do this because we love Penn and we love what it stands for, it's proud Quaker tradition of tolerance," Abella said Thursday.Members of the counter-protest marched across campus Thursday morning to deliver Penn officials with a petition that offered more than 3,000 signatures from people calling for an end to the ongoing encampment.
Abella said he wanted to make it clear that the group's goal isn't against any activist's right to protest. Instead, he argued, the pro-Palestine protest had allowed hate speech and threats against the Jewish community. Divestment usually refers to selling shares in companies doing business with a given country. Divestment has long been a goal of a movement that seeks to limit what it considers hostile operations by Israel and an end to expanding what the United Nations has ruled are illegal settlements in Palestinian territory.On Friday, April 26, University of Pennsylvania interim President J. Larry Jameson called for the encampment to be disbanded, saying it violated the university’s facilities policies.
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