Our Gaza Encampments May Fall, But They’ve Already Radicalized a Generation
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Many of the Gaza solidarity encampments have now been destroyed by police. How do we make sense of their legacy?
At 4:45 am on May 8, the University of Chicago Police Department arrived at the UChicago Popular University of Gaza, a Gaza solidarity encampment organized by a coalition of student organizations called UChicago United for Palestine, and destroyed it. Within 15 minutes, the most beautiful, abundant, diverse iteration of university life many of us had ever experienced was gone.