In solidarity with their student activists, professors at The New School in New York City on Wednesday erected the first faculty-led pro-Palestinian encampment in the United States.

Rather than find the traditional quad or open-air space to build their tent city, the faculty chose a lobby in one of the school buildings. Like the students, the professors are calling on the university to divest from several weapons manufacturing companies and for an academic boycott of all Israeli institutions. They are also calling for an end to the police presence on campus and for all disciplinary charges against students to be dismissed.

“The movement started by our brave students must continue, and it is incumbent upon us as faculty to heed their calls, and help finish what they started,” an anonymous representative who is organizing the new encampment said in a statement released by The New School’s Students for Justice in Palestine.

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