Encampment opposing war in Gaza at DePaul launches, as university leaders meet with Foxx on response to student protests

Student groups at DePaul University, a longtime locus of student organizing in solidarity with Palestine, launched an encampment in protest of the war in Gaza Tuesday, joining demonstrations on campuses across the country amid midterms at the private Catholic university.

“It shows that while the administration does not support Palestine, the student body does,” DePaul sophomore and member of Students for Justice in Palestine Henna Ayesh said of the encampment, adding that support from faculty and community groups also made the large turnout possible. In a statement Tuesday, DePaul said that although the tents violate “a variety of university policies,” the administration remained “steadfastly devoted to academic freedom and free speech” and invited community members to discuss their demands.

The campus representatives did not raise any complaints about prosecutors’ longstanding policy not to prosecute peaceful protesters, Foxx said. Also useful, Foxx said, was a frank discussion of the difference between free speech and hate speech, which “everyone agrees” should not be tolerated on campuses. Foxx said her office takes hate crimes seriously, and they are not covered under the non-prosecution policy.

“ amongst each other about what it was they were seeing and lessons learned from Northwestern, and now seeing what’s happening at University of Chicago,” she said. “There was someone from DePaul there who said ‘thankfully, nothing there yet,’ and while we were sitting there he got word two tents had gone up.”

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