Student demands at University of Chicago encampment include defunding police, reparations, cutting emissions

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CHICAGO – The student demands from the University of Chicago’s anti-Israel encampment is a giant progressive wishlist that goes well beyond Gaza.  The encampment formed Monday, called “The U Chicago Popular University for Gaza,” follows the nationwide trend of anti-Israel revolts at liberal colleges.  During a rally held Tuesday, one of the lead protesters listed their demands, among them defunding the campus police, the UCPD.  ANTI-ISRAEL STUDENTS AT EMORY UNIVERSITY BASH BIDEN, AVOID OUTRIGHT CONDEMNING OCTOBER 7 Hundreds gathered for the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Chicago. (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital) “The U Chicago Popular University For Gaza demands that you, Chicago, divest from the Gaza genocide,” the protester told the university. “We demand that you, Chicago, divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel and its partnerships with militarized Israeli universities, and cut ties with the Israel Institute. We also demand that you, Chicago, divest from all interrelated forces of death and violence into which it is currently complicit, especially fossil fuel production, UCPD and construction projects that fuel South Side displacement.” She then led chants of “We won’t rest til you divest!”  REP. ILHAN OMAR SHUSHES FOX NEWS REPORTER AS DEM FACES BACKLASH FOR COMMENT ON ‘PRO-GENOCIDE’ JEWS...

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