Chicago Students Join National Wave of Pro-Palestine University Protests – South Side Weekly

University of Chicago students staged a sit-in at the admissions office last month, demanding transparency around the university’s investments and its complete divestment from companies that send weapons to Israel. After several hours, twenty-six students and two faculty members were arrested. Student Jenin Alharithi said that UIC has one of the largest Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab student populations in the U.S., and she feels a particular responsibility to mobilize against the university’s investment, calling it “vital to the national student movement.”