Twenty anti-Israel activists were arrested at Pomona College in Claremont, California on Friday for taking over the president’s office and refusing to present identification to the authorities, the school’s newspaper reported over the weekend.
Dozens of students, many of whom were members of the anti-Zionist campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), began occupying Alexander Hall in the late afternoon, according to The Claremont Independent, with at least 18 commandeering the office of Pomona College president Gabrielle Starr. Once inside, they allegedly spurned numerous requests to identify themselves and uttered a racist remark about African Americans. It is believed that the demonstration was prompted by the administration’s dismantling of an “apartheid wall” that demonstrators mounted earlier last week.
