Pro-Hamas Protesters Caused Over $1 Million in Damage to University of Washington Building, School Says
7th May 2025
Police arrested 31 protesters for taking over and vandalizing the Boeing-funded Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office told KOMO News on Tuesday. The protesters, who also set several nearby dumpsters on fire, demanded that the university sever ties with Boeing for supplying weapons used in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
The protest comes as the Trump administration cracks down on anti-Semitic activity that has swept college campuses following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.
The organization behind the Monday protest, Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return, is a “suspended student group,” university spokesman Victor Balta told CNN. The group has published a manifesto overtly praising Hamas’s October 7 attack and also helped organize an anti-Semitic protest on campus in February.
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