Faculty establish pro-Palestinian encampment in Manhattan’s New School
Faculty at the New School have set up a pro-Palestinian encampment inside the institution’s University Center on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, echoing student protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
About seven tents bearing phrases such as “faculty against genocide” and “Jews for Palestine” had been set up in the lobby of the New School’s main hub at 63 Fifth Ave on Wednesday evening. In a press release issued the same day, the group stated it had established the nation’s first faculty-led encampment, which it said was named for Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian professor and activist killed in an Israeli airstrike late last year.
The faculty encampment’s establishment comes five days after NYPD officers cleared a pro-Palestinian student encampment at the New School last Friday morning after officials at the private university requested police assistance in dispersing and arresting student protesters. That same day, police also cleared encampments at NYU and arrested protesters there.
The faculty protesters said in the press release that interim New School President Donna Shalala’s decision “destroyed what many experienced to be a site of learning, political commitment, and powerful solidarity with the Palestinian people facing genocide.
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