A University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees meeting on Friday was shut down by a group of pro-Palestinian students protesting the institution’s involvement with Israel.
The meeting lasted only a couple minutes before it was forced to come to a close due to the interruption from the Freedom School for Palestine group, according to local news reports.
The meeting was the first one at which acting Penn President J. Larry Jameson was to preside. He took over after former President Elizabeth Magill was forced to resign in December after equivocating at a Congressional hearing about whether calls for genocide against Jews were against Penn’s rules for campus speech.
A group of 12 students began to protest as Jameson started to talk. They waved their hands about, some of which were painted red to symbolize blood, and yelled “Endowment transparency now. Divest from genocide,” according to the New York Times. The protestors also […]
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