Northwestern Professors Encourage Students to Skip Class to Join Anti-Israel Encampment
27th April 2024
Northwestern University professors are encouraging students to skip classes to attend anti-Israel demonstrations on campus, and some are even moving their lessons to the site of the protest encampment, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The faculty messages are in defiance of campus administrators and police, who warned they would arrest trespassers who set up an anti-Israel tent city on Northwestern’s Deering Meadow lawn on Thursday. Campus police have yet to remove over 100 protesters who gathered there as of Friday afternoon, as professors encouraged their students to join in.
“In light of artist tradition, studies, activism, and movements, tomorrow discussion will be held in Deering Meadow,” wrote Isaac Vazquez, a Northwestern art history lecturer, in an email to students on Thursday. “If you’re already there, I’ll see you.”