20 Jewish Students Arrested at Brown University during Peaceful Sit InSupporting Ceasefire in Gaza

November 8, 2023

Beginning at 5:44 PM on Wednesday, November 8, twenty Jewish students were arrested by the Providence Police Department while staging a peaceful sit-in at Brown University’s main administrative building, University Hall. The students, members of BrownU Jews for Ceasefire Now, were calling on the University to do its part in promoting an immediate ceasefire and a lasting peace in Gaza.

“I was raised knowing that the single most important thing I could learn from Judaism is the pursuit of justice and the repair of the world, tikkun olam,” said Rafi Ash, one of the 20 Jewish students who were later arrested, during the sit-in. “We should not need to use the violence that was perpetrated against our ancestors to understand the wrong we see before us. We cannot let our government and our educational institutions support ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide. When we say ceasefire now, we mean peace for all, freedom for all, we mean justice for all; an end to death, an end to apartheid, an end to authoritarian fascist nationalism.”

[algerielibreetdemocratique]

Thank you ! Salam, Shalom ! Free, Liberté

[againstthemachine]

Thank you for you voice ❤🍉. The world is with you, free Palestine

[zmbyascene]

This is not antisemitism? Only when you speak up against israel you are branded antisemitic, even if you are yourself jew. Hats off to these students.

[ClaireM]

Merci pour votre soutien au peuple palestinien.