By Tien Nguyen
Students and others urged the USM Board of Regents to withdraw university endowments from weapon manufacturers outside the College Park Marriott Hotel and Conference Center on the three-year mark of the Hamas attacks on Israel, as part of the “For Our Martyrs” rally. Continue reading UMD students pressure USM Board of Regents to divest from weapons manufacturers
by Daryl Perry Over 200 chairs. Over 200 hostages. Each chair on the University of Maryland’s McKeldin Mall on Nov. 9 represented one person Hamas holds hostage in the Gaza Strip. Dina Bash, a senior psychology major, said she hoped that the event would remind people of world events, “even though it’s half way around the world.” “The war is still happening,” she said. “[240] … Continue reading Empty chairs on McKeldin honor Israeli hostages
by Joel Lev-Tov CLAIM: Protesters at a pro-Palestine protest on Nov. 9 shouted antisemitic slogans and chalked messages calling for a second Holocaust. SBS ASSESSMENT: Partially true. Two eyewitnesses confirmed that students shouted slogans calling for revolution and event organizers confirmed that someone chalked a message reading “Holocaust 2.0,” but emphasized that the author meant to compare the war in the Gaza Strip with the … Continue reading FACT CHECK: Were antisemitic slogans shouted at a UMD pro-Palestine event?
