Around 15 students at NYU London held a sit-in at the study away site’s academic center Wednesday to call for the university to divest from Israel and express solidarity with students and faculty taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment outside the Paulson Center. Students put up posters reading “FREE PALESTINE” and “NYU FUNDS GENOCIDE”.
An unidentified individual threw red dye across President Linda Mills’ front door and sidewalk at Lipton Hall on Tuesday afternoon. A video of the perpetrator began circulating on the social platform X shortly after, with a note reading “Linda Mills: Your administration is complicit in genocide. Blood on your hands. Long live Gaza.” NYU spokesperson.
At NYU, pro-Palestine students and faculty find that the school has barricaded and restricted many open and public spaces, part of a pattern since October.
Over 100 protesters rallied near the pro-Palestinian encampment outside the Paulson Center on Tuesday, before marching toward encampments at The New School, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Columbia University and the City College of New York. The demonstration, during which protesters displayed large signs reading “free Palestine” and “from Gaza to Jenin, revolution until victory,”.