The president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill personally helped reinstall the American flag on Tuesday after it was removed by student protesters.
Anti-Israel protests at North Carolina’s flagship state school began last Friday. The student group UNC Students for Palestine Justice, which organized the protest, made several demands of university administrators, including that UNC “divest from all businesses associated with Israel,” according to Axios. Mr. Rowley said. reportand UNC ending its study abroad program in Israel.
The protests reached a climax on Tuesday. When police officers arrested multiple students for ignoring the university’s rules regarding the encampment, known as the “Triangular Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
Unfortunately, the arrest didn’t end the misdeeds.
Later that day, demonstrators began removing barricades set up by police after the arrests. That’s when protesters took down the American flag on the Quad, known as Polk Place, and raised a Palestinian flag in its place.
When protesters reoccupied the Quad, they chanted “Intifada” “Revolution” and “From the river to the sea” is the Hamas rallying cry calling for the annihilation of Israel. According to the Anti-Defamation League.
Shortly after protesters removed the flag, interim Prime Minister Lee Roberts showed up with a large number of police officers to restore it.
“As long as I’m prime minister, that flag will stand there,” Roberts said. later told the media.
“The flag represents all of us,” he explained. “Taking down that flag and raising another flag, no matter what flag it is, is a statement of who we are, what this university stands for, and what we have done for 229 years. It is contrary to that.”
“This university is not part of a small group of protesters,” Roberts asserted.
Unfortunately, the protesters unloaded The American flag was raised a second time, but later restored. Police later set up barricades around the flagpole to prevent future incidents, the News & Observer reported. report.
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