University of Washington suspends 21 students for pro-Palestine protest

WORLD, May 10 (YPA) – The University of Washington has suspended the 21 students arrested earlier this week for occupying an engineering building during a pro-Palestinian protest, the school announced Wednesday.

The students who moved into the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building in Seattle on Monday evening demanding the school break ties with Boeing have also been banned from all UW campuses, according to a school statement. Thirteen people who were arrested but are not students have also been banned from the university’s Seattle campus, it added.

The school said the occupation resulted in “significant damage” to the building and equipment housed in it. Multiple dumpsters were also set on fire outside the school.

Boeing has donated over $100 million to UW since 1917, including $10 million for the engineering building,

The Seattle Times reported. Boeing is a major supplier to the Israeli military, and the country has received more military aid from the US than any other country since World War II, as well as billions from the US since the outbreak of the war in Gaza on 7 October, 2023.

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