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Students, faculty and community members weigh in on the campus protests across our region as part of the nationwide protest movement against the war in Gaza.
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The Hanover Police Department said in a press release that 90 people had been arrested at Dartmouth.
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Student protesters have said they will stay at the encampment until all of their demands are met.
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On the second day of a student encampment on the University of Vermont campus, more than a hundred students and community members gathered to protest against the school’s upcoming commencement speaker, who vetoed U.N. resolutions calling for a Gaza ceasefire. The cancellation is one of five demands made by the group Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized ongoing campus protests across the U.S. as antisemitic. The Vermont senator said it was an attempt to "deflect attention" from Israel's actions.
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The first tents went up at the University of Vermont Sunday afternoon. An outdoor Passover seder was held that evening. Students at Middlebury College also erected tents Sunday.
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The group that oversees Burlington's sister city program with Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, and Arad, in Israel, have called for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
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Sens. Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch, as well as Rep. Becca Balint, say Israel needs to do more to let humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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Sens. Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch both cited Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 28,000 Palestinians, including civilians.
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The measure, which would provide $95 billion in military aid, has little hope of seeing a vote in the House where hard-line Republicans oppose the measure.