“This is an active crime scene,” said UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof. “They’re vandalizing an unsafe, fire-damaged building.”
BERKELEY — A group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators took over UC Berkeley’s Anna Head Alumnae Hall on Wednesday, just a day after a large encampment in Sproul Plaza was taken down following an agreement between administrators and demonstrators.
The building sits just across from the park, which was established 55 years ago to the day and has been the center of controversy. While the university has sought to develop the site into student housing, protestors have advocated for retaining the lot as open space., an Arabic word meaning catastrophe and used as a reference to the forced disposition of about 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war prompted by the creation of Israel.
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