To the speakers at Monday’s protest, none of the backlash Penn faced was justification for Magill not mentioning Palestinians in her campus communication Sunday.
“You cannot write a statement that shows you have only been listening to some trustees and alums,” Eve M. Troutt Powell, a professor of history who specializes in the modern Middle East, said during the protest, held outside Penn’s Van Pelt Library. “You cannot write a statement and assume that there’s no protection for all of us on this campus. This is the University of Pennsylvania.
have been killed since Hamas’ attack, the New York Times reported. An additional 1,400 have died in Israel; the Israeli military said Monday that nearly 200 people had been taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack. Shtaya, the Penn law student, said Magill’s statements made her feel excluded, as if her experience didn’t matter.Her educational experience at Penn has been top notch, she said, but the leadership of the university hasn’t practiced what she has learned.
Critics in an uproar over speakers at this weekend’s Palestine Writes literature festival held at Pennearlier this month when it released a statement that said it held “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” That erupted in controversy with calls for the university to condemn the letter.Parents and prospective students on campus tours looked on as the protesters marched up Locust Walk to the Wharton School, where they continued to chant: “Free, free Palestine.
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