At least 200 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students and staff participated in an anti-Israel walkout led by UNC Students for Justice in Palestine on Thursday, according to the school’s student newspaper.
The Daily Tar Heel reported that the “Walk out for the West Bank” featured protesters walking in and out of various buildings around campus while spray-painting messages such as “Free Gaza,” “F—K UNC” and “Israel is a terror state.”
“There were several speeches demanding that the University reject Israel and the brutalization of students. Protesters chanted phrases like “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” as they walked through Halls,” the Daily Tar Heel reported.
The paper reported that anti-Israel protesters also vandalized the UNC NROTC Naval Armory building with spray paint and draped a Palestinian flag from the gun turret.
“The American flag that waves outside of the building was also taken down by protesters,” the student newspaper reported.
Police arrived and restored the American flag within the hour.