BERKELEY -- Malak Afaneh, a law student at the University of California and the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, was among over a hundred pro-Palestinian protesters who have set up camp outside Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus. Their message is clear: they demand a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment action by UC.'It is absolutely ridiculous that the university that prides itself on diversity, equity and inclusion refuses to stand on the side of justice and divest,' Afaneh said.
'I feel like, if all of us experience -- students, citizens of this country -- experience even a fraction of the pain, the fear, the violence that Palestinians live under day by day, especially in Rafah, all of us would be out here,' Abubakr said.University officials say they are observing the demonstration but there have been no disruptions of university operations.'We are working with the trustees and with the university system as it relates to our public role and responsibility.
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