University of Texas Suspends Palestine Solidarity Committee After On-Campus Pro-Hamas Protests
Randy Clark
28 Apr 2024
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/04...hamas-protests/


AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin suspended the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a registered student group at the campus and a chapter of the national Students for Justice in Palestine. The move follows several campus protests last week that saw nearly 60 people arrested for criminal trespass. The arrests occurred on Wednesday after law enforcement orders to disperse and leave the central tower area of the campus were ignored.

On Friday, after receiving formal notification from the university that the organization was being suspended, the group posted a message on Facebook encouraging supporters to contact the administration and demand reinstatement.
FACEBOOK: the Palestine Solidarity Committee

FACEBOOK: the Palestine Solidarity Committee

In the lengthy Facebook posting, the group appears to deliberately leave the “I” in Israel in lowercase while writing the “P” in Palestine in uppercase. The message reads:

UT’s suspension of the Palestine Solidarity Committee is an attack on free speech to distract from and enable israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people!

While Jay Hartzell and Greg Abbot authorized Texas State Troopers, Austin Police, and UT police to violently attack and arrest protesters on campus, Palestinians continue to live in a state of emergency that UT refuses to recognize. Now, as the number of Palestinians killed by israel has surpassed 34,000, the university has repeatedly changed protest policies and been deliberately vague about these changes, and committed to violently dispersing protests in their campaign of intimidation and brutalization of our student body.

This demonstrates UT’s selective censorship of pro-Palestinian student organizations as an attempt to prevent protest against israel’s increasingly brutal attacks. We recognize UT’s intimidation tactics for what they are: our suspension is the latest instance of a pattern of censorship. UT’s repression of our free speech reinforces a racist narrative that devalues Palestinian life.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Majority of arrests at UT Austin's Gaza Camp were not UT students
https://thepostmillennial.com/majority-o...google_vignette
57 people were arrested last week at the Gaza Camp and faced criminal trespassing charges, but those charges were dropped.
Majority of arrests at UT Austin's Gaza Camp were not UT students
Hannah Nightingale
Washington DC
Apr 30, 2024 2 minute read

Of the over 70 people arrested at the University of Texas Austin campus on Monday at the school’s Gaza Camp, 46 of them were not students at the school.

UT Spokesperson Mike Rosen told the Austin American-Statesman that based on preliminary numbers, 46 of 77 people arrested Monday were not students, though it is unclear whether this number included faculty or staff members.

Overall, 79 people were arrested, with 78 being charged with criminal trespass, and one person receiving an additional charge of obstructing a highway or passageway. One person was also charged with interfering with public duties, said Kristen Dark, sheriff's office public information officer.

The 57 people who were arrested last week at the protests faced criminal trespassing charges, but those charges were dropped.

The Travis County Sheriff's Office told KVUE that the University of Texas Police Department arrested 75 protestors on Monday, while the Austin Police Department arrested five.

The university said in a statement "Earlier today, a number of protestors, many believed to be non-UT affiliated individuals, erected a tent encampment on the South Lawn, with barricade enclosures of tables secured by metal chains, and strategically placed tools, tents, and rocks."

"When approached, protestors escalated by becoming physically and verbally combative -- excerpt, rest at link above --