On Monday, more than 20 activists took over part of an administrative and academic building at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, as part of the campus protest actions over Israel’s actions in Gaza.
They posted videos of their occupation, describing the piled-up chairs blocking the hall as a “thesis.” There was also a picture painted on the wall of Leila Khaled, who was a plane hijacker, as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), “a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization.” You can watch the occupiers’ video here on X.
They were demanding that the school declare the “Israeli Occupation of Gaza as genocide,” and that the school divest from companies that are “implicated in sustaining Israeli Apartheid.”
But on Thursday, the school president, Crystal Williams, had had enough. She sent out an email…
