On Thursday, additional encampments emerged in Atlanta and New York City amidst ongoing anti-Israel protests that are making their way through college campuses across the nation.
At Emory University in Atlanta, police were summoned to address trespassers on the campus, as reported by Laura Diamond, assistant vice president of University Communications. Video footage captured several officers donning vests engaging with a group of protesters, resulting in the detainment of several individuals amid audible shouting.
The protesters have stated that their occupation of the school is a response to what they perceive as complicity in genocide and police militarization. They have explicitly called for the school administration to sever ties with both Israel and the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, also known as 'Cop City,' a $90 million facility currently under construction in Dekalb County's South River Forest area.
An op-ed published on Mondoweiss, an independent pro-Palestinian news website, detailed the demands of the activists, who represent students from various Atlanta universities and community members. They are advocating for complete institutional disinvestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City across all Atlanta colleges and universities.
Simultaneously, student activists at the City College of New York - CUNY have established the fourth anti-Israel encampment on a college campus within New York City, as confirmed by the activist group Within Our Lifetime.
