The UTSA student-led protest unfolded peacefully, while much more unruly demonstrations occurred at campuses across the nation.
Pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza march through the outdoor corridors of UTSA on Wednesday.UTSA students and community members joined student-led protests sweeping the nation Wednesday after
Zach Greenberg, a first amendment attorney at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression , told the San Antonio Report Wednesday that his organization would be investigating to see whether the situation students described actually occurred. Students said they hope in the short term, their actions will pressure the university to end those relationships. Kherais, said she and other organizers had been approached by the university and given a set of rules before the march.
Students stressed in interviews and while speaking that they were not antisemitic, pointing to Jewish students who had joined the march. However, students made clear that they were rallying for Palestine and against what they called a genocide, citing the nearly 35,000 deaths in the country since a war began in October following an attack on Israel by Hamas.
Local, state and national leaders have increasingly raised the alarm on the protests in recent days, with U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson visiting Columbia’s campus Wednesday and calling for the national guard to be called in to quell the ongoing unrest.
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