The Palestine Solidarity Encampment that occupied Vanderbilt University for 40 days straight was taken down over the weekend.
The encampment, occupied by students with the pro-Palestine student group Vanderbilt Divest Coalition, began on the night 27 students staged a pro-Palestine sit-in event at Kirkland Hall on the university’s campus, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star.
On Saturday, the encampment was officially taken down as the student group cited “safety” concerns as “most students cannot stay on campus during the summer.”
“Because most students cannot stay on campus during the summer and it will be no longer safe to continue, camp will be taken down on May 4,” the Vanderbilt Divest Coalition wrote in an Instagram post.
The group went on to address the “Vanderbilt administrators” who “monitor” its Instagram page (@vanderbiltdivestcoalition), saying the now-disassembled encampment is “only the beginning.”
“But to the Vanderbilt administrators monitoring this page, know that this is only the beginning. Your attempts to silence us have only made us stronger,” the group said.
“These next few months are not for rest but for building and strengthening the relationships necessary to continue our fight for liberation. When students return in the fall, we will be more prepared than ever to fight for Palestine by any means necessary,” the group added. “We hope Nashville is ready to fight with us.”
The group’s encampment, which was located in front of Kirkland Hall, was supplied by donations collected and delivered by like-minded groups including Palestine Hurra Collective Nashville.
The encampment was also recognized by the group National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), which is currently being sued by a group of victims of the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack on Israel for it and its parent organization – American Muslims for Palestine – allegedly working inside the U.S. “as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Vanderbilt University #FreePalestine Camp” by Vanderbilt Divest Coalition.
Vandy was once a great college of learning but it has been taken over by radical marxist professors that hate America and the men and women who made it great.
While our military men and women died for our freedom and business men built our great economic system, most all the modern day college professors that never did anything useful sit on their asses and teach our young people that America and Israel are evil and that and Karl Marx was a great leader. Oh I forgot killing Jews was OK to.