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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Trump Administration to Probe UW Protests for \u2018Antisemitic Violence\u2019 \u2013 Students Detained</h1>May 7, 2025</div>
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US President Donald Trump. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3>Some 33 protesters who occupied a UW engineering building demanding
that the university cut ties with Boeing were arrested on Monday. They
were subsequently released on bail.</h3>
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<p>The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an investigation into
\u201crecent incidents of anti-Semitic violence\u201d at the University of
Washington (UW) and its affiliates.</p>
<p>The announcement by the Departments of Education (ED), Health and
Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
follows the arrest of 33 pro-Palestine protesters who occupied a UW
engineering building on Monday. Protesters demanded that UW cut ties
with Boeing, \u201cone of the top suppliers of weapons to Israel,\u201d a
statement from a student group said.</p>
<p>Condemning the protest, the government\u2019s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/anti-semitism-task-force-statement-on-university-of-washington.html">said</a>
in a statement that its probe was \u201cin response to the eruption of
anti-Semitic harassment and violence\u201d that occurred at UW\u2019s campus in
Seattle on Monday.</p>
<p>It said, \u201cPro-terror protestors demanded that the university divest from Boeing due to the company\u2019s military contracts<a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/largest-european-companies-arming-israel-and-their-financiers-report/"> linked</a> to the Gaza conflict.\u201d</p>
<p>\u201cThe \u2018protestors\u2019 actions included barricading and occupying an
engineering building on campus for hours, setting property on fire, and
shouting death threats to law enforcement,\u201d the statement added.</p>
<h4>\u2018Policy Changes\u2019 Expected</h4>
<p>The Task Force said it \u201cappreciates the university\u2019s strong statement
condemning last night\u2019s violence\u201d and \u201capplauds the quick action\u201d by
law enforcement officers to remove what it called \u201cviolent criminals\u201d
from the university campus.</p>
<p>\u201cWhile these are good first steps, the university must do more to
deter future violence and guarantee that Jewish students have a safe and
productive learning environment,\u201d the statement added.</p>
<p>The Task Force said it \u201cexpects\u201d the institution to follow up with
enforcement actions and policy changes \u201cthat are clearly necessary to
prevent these uprisings moving forward.\u201d</p>
<h4>Building Renamed to \u2018Sha\u2019ban Al-Dalou\u2019</h4>
<p>The group Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return (SUPER)
said in a statement that the 33 UW students and community members
occupied \u201cthe Boeing-funded Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (EB)
on UW campus for nearly 10 hours, before being violently arrested by
UWPD, SPD and Washington State Troopers.\u201d</p>
<p>It noted that students, faculty and community members \u201crallied at the
building and in the street, building barricades and facing threats and
violence from police in riot gear in order to support and defend those
inside.\u201d</p>
<p>\u201cWe renamed the building in honor of Palestinian engineering student
Sha\u2019ban Al-Dalou,\u201d the statement said, adding that Sha\u2019ban \u201cwas martyred
in an \u2018israeli\u2019 bombing of a refugee camp at a hospital, where he was <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.palestinechronicle.com/let-him-never-be-forgotten-shaban-al-dalou-burned-alive-in-israeli-airstrike-on-gaza-hospital-camp/&ved=2ahUKEwiux5_O35GNAxWBW0EAHc4tDD8QFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0ONhtuQSDcSW-DPopbPiUb">burned</a> alive.\u201d</p>
<p>The group said protesters were \u201cdragged\u201d and thrown down flights of
stairs, by \u201ccops\u201d who \u201cthrew furniture over people\u2019s heads, and slammed
people\u2019s bodies to the ground.\u201d</p>
<p>The action by the security forces \u201ccaused multiple concussions, nerve damage, and other injuries.\u201d</p>
<p>Two arrestees were taken to the hospital on Tuesday \u201cafter they were
denied medical care in jail, and one person in the outside rally was
assaulted by an officer and transported to the hospital via ambulance
last night.\u201d</p>
<h4>$10m Investment from Boeing</h4>
<p>SUPER said the protest action was taken to demand that UW cut ties
with Boeing, repurpose the occupied building in a community controlled
space, and \u201cto end the repression of pro-Palestinian students, faculty,
and staff.\u201d</p>
<p>\u201cThe IEB was funded through a $10 million investment from Boeing, and
in return, UW has granted them control of engineering curriculum,
access to research facilities, and promise to establish a \u2018pipeline\u2019 of
students into the Boeing workforce,\u201d the statement stressed.</p>
<p>Boeing, it said, is one of the top supplies of weapons to Israel and
\u201cplans to use this building in order to expand their ability to develop
and research the weapons that are used to massacre Palestinians.\u201d</p>
<h4>UW President\u2019s Statement</h4>
<p>UW President Ana Mari Cauce said in a statement that \u201cThis was no
peaceful protest\u201d and condemned \u201cthis dangerous, violent and illegal
building occupation and related vandalism.\u201d</p>
<p>Cauce said the university will continue \u201cour actions to oppose
antisemitism, racism and all forms of biases so that ALL our students,
faculty, staff and visitors can feel safe and welcome on campuses.\u201d</p>
<p>The student group said Cauce\u2019s condemnation of the protest as
\u201cviolent\u201d implies that the \u201conly protests that are justified are the
\u2018peaceful\u2019 ones.\u201d</p>
<p>\u201cWe believe an escalation in genocide requires an escalation in our
tactics and commitment. The Palestinian people and their resistance have
been calling on the international community to escalate, and we are
answering those calls,\u201d SUPER said.</p>
<p>It stated that Palestinians have engaged in \u201cpeaceful protests\u201d and
\u201cpeace\u201d deals, but Israel \u201ccontinues to bomb them, because their goals
are to displace Palestinians in order to occupy all of their land.\u201d</p>
<p>The statement added that Cauce should be condemning \u201cthe violence
from the cops that UW sent in to brutalize students and community
members.\u201d</p>
<p><em>(The Palestine Chronicle)</em></p>
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