UT Austin Students Protest Israel

The student organization Palestinian Solidarity Committee at the University of Texas at Austin hosted a protest Jan. 23 in front of the Texas legislature, demanding that Texas stop supporting Israel. The group also called for an intifada, or uprising, during the "Hands off Palestine" demonstration.Show more

Campus Reform attended the event.

One organizer said the group was protesting to “resist the occupation and colonization of our lands,” using the terms “genocidal campaign” and “ethnic cleansing,” and claiming that such alleged activity “being funded by our taxpayer dollars here in the US.”

Read the story here: https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18914
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