Image Credit: Jewish Voice for Peace / Luis Castaneda

Chicago, October 21 (RHC)-- Gaza solidarity protests by U.S. college students are continuing across campuses, spreading throughout the United States.

In Rhode Island, students from across the state are traveled to Providence to join Brown University students in a protest against their school’s rejection of their call to divest from Israeli companies complicit in war and occupation.

In Chicago, Illinois, Northwestern University sent in campus police to tear down a sukkah set up by Jewish students that they dedicated to the people of Gaza.  A sukkah is a temporary booth or hut constructed during the weeklong festival of Sukkot. 

Jewish Voice for Peace Northwestern said: “We will not allow our traditions to be exploited by those who seek death and destruction.  Our ancestors, many of whom endured genocide and ethnic cleansing, taught us never to be bystanders in the face of injustice.”

In more protest news, last week, peace activists again blockaded the entrance to the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada to oppose the role of U.S. drones in Israel’s war on Gaza.  One activist was reportedly arrested.

[ SOURCE:  DEMOCRACY NOW ]