Officials from Tennessee's Vanderbilt University ended an overnight sit-in protest against Israel at one of the prestigious institution's main buildings after locking students in without access to food, water or bathroom facilities.
The sit-in began after the university's administration refused to allow students to vote on changing the student government's constitution to prevent funds from being spent on the protestors targets. In one video, protestors were heard telling one police officer, who is black: 'You are black in America, and you're NOT standing with the marginalized people of the world. What does that make you?'
One video shared to social media showed a protestor calling 911, claiming they were worried that if they went outside they'd be arrested, but that if they stayed inside they'd go into 'toxic shock' Advertisement Other video shared to social media showed fellow protestors slamming on the windows of the building, chanting over and over again: 'Let them pee, let them eat.'
Opponents of Israel's brutal war against Hamas, that has so far killed more than 31,000 people including women and children, have used the BDS movement as a non-violent way of protesting it.Supporters say that boycotting these groups, and asking others to divest from them, puts pressure on them to stop working with Israel.
Advertisement BDS supporters have gone after McDonald's and Starbucks. Earlier this month, Starbucks' Middle East operations announced it was cutting thousands of jobs in light of the BDS movement.