2024 University of Virginia pro-Palestinian campus occupation
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In May 2024, pro-Palestinian student protesters at the University of Virginia demonstrated on the campus. The protesters organized an occupation on university grounds in support of Palestinian nationalism in the context of the Israel–Hamas war.
2024 University of Virginia pro-Palestinian campus occupation | |||
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Part of the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses | |||
Date | May 1–4, 2024 (3 days) | ||
Location | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States 38°02′12″N 78°30′16″W | ||
Caused by | solidarity with other 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses[1] | ||
Goals | disinvestment from Israel[2] | ||
Methods | |||
Resulted in | Protests suppressed | ||
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Casualties | |||
Injuries | pepper spray to protesters[3] | ||
Arrested | 25 protesters arrested[3] |
Students organized various protest activities at the University of Virginia from the start of the Israel-Hamas war.[4][5] In April 2024 in the global media beyond Charlottesville, Donald Trump made comparisons of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities nationwide to the hostile aggressors at the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.[6] On May 1 students established a protest encampment at the university.[1] On May 4, police ended the protest by pepper spraying demonstrators and arresting 27 of them.[3]