>> HUNDREDS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING CHICAGO OR PITCHING TENTS ON CAMPUSES AND RALLYING IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS AMID THE WAR IN GAZA, THE MOVE COMES 6 MONTHS AFTER THE OCTOBER 7 HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL.

THE DEMONSTRATIONS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES HAVE LED TO CONCERNS OVER FREE SPEECH AND SAFETY.

WELL, PROTESTS NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY JUST YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED AN AGREEMENT.

THEY SAY, PROVIDES A SUSTAINABLE FORWARD.

OTHERS SAY THAT'S NOT THE CASE.

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE OUR SYRIA IZAN STUDENT AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND PRESIDENT OF NORTHWESTERN.

HELLO.

WE ALSO REACHED OUT TO THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DIVESTMENT COALITION WHO RECOMMENDED PASS BAUM A STUDENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY'S CHAPTER OF JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE AND PART OF A COALITION.

THANKS TO THE 2 OF YOU FOR JOINING US.

POSSIBLE TO START WITH YOU, PLEASE.

WHY DO FEEL THAT THESE SORTS OF PROTESTS THAT THIS TO THE DEMONSTRATIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING ARE NECESSARY?

>> LIKE TO START BY THANKING YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY.

ALSO SAYING PALESTINE, THAT IS REASON THAT I DO MY BIRTH.

AND THE REASON THAT WE'RE HERE TODAY, MY WORK WITH THE DIVESTMENT COALITION IS INCREDIBLY INFORMED BY MY JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE VALUES WITH WHICH I WAS RAISED.

I WAS TAUGHT THAT BEING JEWISH MEANS BEING IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE.

THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE UNITED BY THE FACT THAT FACED GENOCIDE AND DISPLACEMENT OF FOR CENTURIES.

MY OWN GREAT GRANDPARENTS FLED POGROMS IN EASTERN EUROPE TO COME TO THE U.S. THAT IS BY I M. FIGHTING FOR THE 34,000 PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED SINCE OCTOBER.

AND OVER A MILLION MORE SAYING PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT RIGHT NOW AND WHY I'M CALLING ON NORTH CALLING FOR IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE AND A NORTHWESTERN TO DISCLOSE ON DIVEST THEIR FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS IN THOSE REALLY WAR MACHINE.

WHILE SITTING WITH YOU FOR JUST A SECOND SERIE, WELCOME TO YOU AS WELL.

PAUSE, WHAT'S THE MOOD BEEN LIKE ON CAMPUS TODAY?

AND WHAT'S THE STATUS OF THE ENCAMPMENT?

>> IT IS VERY JOYOUS TIME.

WE ARE INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY PROUD OF THE AGREEMENT THAT OUR JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN STUDENTS CAME TO WITH UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION.

THE UNIVERSITY IS NOW BOUNDED TO AGREEMENT THAT THEY NEED TO DISCLOSE ALL FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS IN IT.

ANY STOCK, INCLUDING ISRAEL AND BUT AS A HOLD IN.

MOVING TOWARDS DIVESTMENT FROM GENOCIDE, AN APARTHEID.

AND I DEFINITELY WANT TO GET TO TO THE TERMS OF THAT IN JUST A BIT.

SARI, SAME QUESTION TO YOU.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY THE MOOD IS LIKE ON CAMPUS AND THE STATUS OF ENCAMPMENT?

>> YEAH, I'M AS FAR AS I KNOW, MOST OF THE TEMPS HAVE BEEN PACKED UP AFTER YESTERDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT NO TENSE A LONGER NO LONGER ALLOWED UNIVERSITY PROPERTY.

TO FOR THE JURORS TO DECIDE CONTACT WITH THOSE HAVE LARGE CONNECTION IS ALL THOSE WHO FEEL CONNECTED TO TO SOME EXTENT THEY WORD WE'RE DEFINITELY FEELING UNSAFE THE PAST FEW THERE WERE SIGNS THAT HAD A JEWISH STAR WITH LIKE A BIG NO THROUGH IT.

LIKE THE KNOW PAT YEAH.

SO TO START WITH THE RED LINE THROUGH THERE WAS A PICTURE OF OUR UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PRESENT MICHAEL SHOW WHO IS A JEWISH PERSON WITH DEVIL HORNS.

THERE WAS DEATH TO ISRAEL SPRAY PAINTED ON THE SIDE OF A BUILDING.

SO THOSE THOSE POSTERS AND SLOGANS DID NOT MAKE JEWISH STUDENTS FEEL WELCOME FOR SAFE ON CAMPUS.

I HAD TO WALK BY THAT ON MY WAY TO CLASS AND A LOT OF MY PEERS DID AS WELL.

AND IT WAS DISRUPTIVE TO THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT AS A LOT OF CLASSES.

I DID IT.

WHERE THE PROFESSOR BROUGHT THERE ARE CLASSES TO THE WHICH MADE SOME STUDENTS IN THOSE CLASSES FEEL REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE.

IF THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT THEY SUPPORT THEMSELVES.

SO FOR THE MOST PART, STUDENTS WERE FEELING PRETTY COMFORTABLE AND SAFE AND A LITTLE BIT RELIEVED TO SEE A LOT OF THAT THAT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO WITH ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS WITH ADDRESSING KIND OF HOW CAN WE CAN INCLUDE ALL JEWISH VOICES IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ON CAMPUS BUT FOR THE MOST PART, I'M RELIEVED TO SEE THAT'S GONE.

>> AS WE MENTIONED YESTERDAY, THE DIVESTMENT COALITION DID REACH AN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY.

A LITTLE BIT OF THOSE AGREEMENT TERMS ON OUR TO ALLOW DEMONSTRATIONS ON DURING UNTIL JUNE.

1ST THE LOCATION IS LIMITED TO UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

A REESTABLISHMENT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INVESTMENT RESPONSIBILITY HAPPENING THIS FALL SUPPORT VISITING PALESTINIAN FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT RISK AND ENSURING SUPPORT FOR JEWISH AND MUSLIM STUDENTS WITH IN STUDENT AFFAIRS, RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE PASS.

FIRST TO YOU.

DOES THIS SATISFY THE REQUEST OF THE DEMONSTRATORS?

>> FOR RIGHT NOW, WE'RE INCREDIBLY HAPPY AND PROUD WITH THIS DEAL.

AS I MENTIONED, THE FACT THAT THE UNIVERSITY IS NOW LEGALLY BOUND DISCLOSING THERE FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS MEAN, YOU CAN PUSH TOWARD PUSH TOWARDS DIVESTMENT.

OTHER TERMS AGREEMENT ALLOW FOR SUPPORT OF MUSLIM PASS ANY AND JEWISH STUDENTS ON CAMPUS.

AND THAT MEANS THAT THE UNIVERSITY IS NOW INVESTED IN THE STUDENTS STUDENTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS AND ALL RELIGIONS.

SO RECEIVED A STATEMENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE AS THAT GROUP, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER GROUPS RELEASED A STATEMENT WHO CALLED FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE UNIVERSITY'S PRESIDENT MICHAEL SCHILL.

>> HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY.

QUOTE, FOR DAYS, PROTESTORS OPENLY MOCKED AND VIOLATED NORTHWESTERN'S CODES OF CONDUCT AND POLICIES BY DIRECTING ENCAMPMENT IN WHICH THEY FANNED THE FLAMES OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND WREAKED HAVOC ON THE ENTIRE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY.

THEIR GOAL IS NOT TO FIND PEACE, BUT TO MAKE JEWISH STUDENTS FEEL UNSAFE ON CAMPUS RATHER THAN HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE AS HE PLEDGED HE PRESIDENT CHILL GAVE THEM A SEAT AT THE TABLE IN NORMALIZE THEIR HATRED AGAINST JEWISH STUDENTS.

I SHOULD CLARIFY THAT THAT STATEMENT IN THAT STATEMENT, THE GROUPS ARE CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT.

SIRI, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THE AGREEMENT THAT WAS REACHED YESTERDAY AND TO WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM A DEO?

>> FOR THE MOST PART, THERE ARE A LOT OF POINTS ON THE AGREEMENT THAT I SUPPORT THAT THE HELLO COMMUNITY SUPPORTS AS A WHOLE AND WE WERE ALSO PRETTY DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT ACTS OF BLATANT ANTI-SEMITISM.

THE CHANCE, THE ALL OF THAT WAS NOT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSED IN THE WE.

HAVE BEEN VOICING OUR CONCERNS ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM ANTISEMITISM ON CAMPUS SINCE OCTOBER 7 SINCE BEFORE OCTOBER, 7TH THERE HAVE BEEN MANY INCIDENTS IN WHICH STUDENTS HAVE FELT COMFORTABLE EXPRESSING THEIR JEWISH IDENTITY, EXPRESSING THEIR CONNECTION TO ISRAEL.

WHEN ASKING STUDENTS TO KIND OF SEPARATE A PART OF THEIR JEWISH IDENTITY THAT FEELS REALLY TARGETED AND REALLY ANTI-SEMITIC.

A LOT OF THAT WAS NOT ADDRESSED IN THE WE HELLO IS LUCKY TO A GREAT PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIVERSITY WHERE IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH ADMINISTRATION AND WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ON BUT THERE IS STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN TERMS OF THAT.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE STUDENTS FROM THE WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS IN THIS AGREEMENT IN THIS DISCUSSION?

AS FAR AS I THERE WERE NO STUDENTS WHO FELT UNSPENT NORTH, NO JEWISH STUDENTS WHO FELT UNSAFE BY THESE PROTESTS INCLUDED ON THE SO WE WERE A BIT DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT THAT VOICE WAS KIND OF LEFT OUT OF THIS >> AND AS A WHOLE STAFF.

HELLO.

I'M LIKE STUDENTS WHO COME TO HELLO OR NOT.

>> INVOLVED IN THESE NEGOTIATIONS >> PAUSE YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN TALK ABOUT THE DISRUPTION OF DAILY ACTIVITIES ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING THESE AND ENCAMPMENTS.

OBVIOUSLY, STUDENTS NOT FEELING SAFE, BUT ALSO STUDENTS NOT BEING ABLE TO GET TO CLASS OR TO WHATEVER AT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER ACADEMIC BUILDINGS THEY NEED TO BE IN IS THAT KIND OF DISRUPTION TO DAILY ACTIVITIES?

IS THAT JUST SORT OF A PART OF THE DEMONSTRATION IN THE PROTEST PROCESS?

>> GOAL WITH THIS ENCAMPMENT ON THIS LIBERATED ZONE WAS TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION TO DISCLOSE.

AND I'VE ASKED THEIR HARMFUL INVESTMENTS.

AS A JEWISH STUDENT.

I FEEL INCREDIBLY SEEN AND HEARD AS A PART OF THIS ENCAMPMENT.

WE HAVE SEVERAL RELIGIOUS CELEBRATIONS MYSELF INTO OF MY PEERS, LEAD US EITHER ON THE ENCAMPMENT ON THURSDAY, ABOUT SERVICES.

AND I FELL.

THERE'S THE THE MOST CONNECTED I HAVE.

IT THE MOST CONNECTED.

I FELT MY FAITH IN THEM OR SUPPORTED.

I FELT MY FAITH SINCE COMING TO NORTHWESTERN AS BEING PART OF THIS ENCAMPMENT BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL COMMUNITY.

THAT WAS BILL TO BE PART OF THIS ENCAMPMENT.

I WOULD THE ONLY TIME THAT I FELT UNSAFE A TUITION AT NORTHWESTERN ON HIS PART.

AND AS PART OF THIS ENCAMPMENT, IT WHEN A GROUP OF COUNTER-PROTESTERS CAME SUNDAY MORNING AND THEY WERE JOINED BY HELLO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MICHAEL SIMON AND MANY OF PROTESTERS TRY TO COME INTO THE ENCAMPMENT AND SEVERAL OF THEM WERE SCREAMING OUT SCREAMING IN OUR FACES, USING SLURS AND SPITTING ON JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS.

I WAS ON THE FRONT LINE HOLDING A SIGN THAT SAID AND THAT SAID, JEWS FOR CEASE-FIRE AND MANY OF THE YEAR SEVERAL OF THESE PROTESTS, COUNTERPROTESTERS CAME INTO MY FACE AND WERE SCREAMING ANTI-SEMITIC FREEZES AT ME.

AND THAT IS THE ONLY TIME I'VE EVER FELT UNSAFE SITUATION.

ARE YOU ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH LIKE SOME OF WHAT A SARI HAS MENTIONED WITH REGARDS TO LIKE SOME OF THE CHANCE THAT YOU'VE AND SOME OF LIKE THE DRAWINGS THAT THAT YOU'VE SEEN.

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF THOSE?

HAVE YOU HEARD THOSE?

ARE THEY?

>> ARE YOU SEEING THAT?

THEY'RE ONLY FROM THE COUNTER PROTESTERS, NOT FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WITH YOUR GROUP WITH YOUR WHOLE ISHAN.

WE UNDERSTAND SOME JEWISH NORTHWESTERN FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BY ENCAMPMENT THE PROTEST.

WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.

MANY THAT THAT I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANTI-SEMITISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM.

>> THIS EXPLICITLY ANTI ZIONIST PROTEST AND SOME OF THESE SYMBOLS SUCH AS THE STAR OF DAVID HAVE BEEN CO-OPTED BY SOME SOME JEWISH SYMBOLS.

SUCH THE START DATE HAVE CO-OPTED BY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.

BEACUSE AS PART OF GENOCIDAL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY.

AND THAT IS NOW BEING CONFLATED WITH MY JEWISH IDENTITY.

AND I THINK IT IS A TRAGEDY OF ZIONISM THERE ARE SYMBOLS THAT ARE BEING USED FOR THE ISRAELI MILITARY.

BUT TO ME, REPRESENT ONLY MY SYRIA.

WE'VE GOT JUST A COUPLE SECONDS LEFT.

I WANT TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO RESPOND TO WHAT YOU JUST HEARD FROM PASS.

>> YEAH, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT.

THE PART OF A COUNTER PROTEST LIKE MOST OF THE COUNTER PROTEST WAS ORGANIZED BY NON-STUDENTS WAS NOT ORGANIZED STUDENTS ON CAMPUS.

HELLO.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WAS NOT PART OF THE PROTEST IS KIND OF ORGANIZING STUDENTS MAKING SURE EVERYTHING FELT SAFE FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED.

SO I'M SORRY PEOPLE FELT UNSAFE FOR THAT.

AND I THINK WHILE THE SYMBOLS LIKE YOUR START IN PRESIDENT SHOW WITH THE HORNS MAY HAVE BEEN THOUGHT OF AS NOT MAKING SURE STUDENTS FEEL UNSAFE LIKE THE WAY THAT THEY WERE REPRESENTED.

REALLY MAJOR STUDENTS FEEL.

EXCLUDED FROM THE REST OF FEEL LIKE THEY CAN GO TO CLASS A LOT OF LIKE WE COULDN'T SIT IN DURING LIBRARY BECAUSE A LOT THE CHANCE WE'RE CALLING FOR THE ANNIHILATION OF A JEWISH STATE AND THAT MAJOR STORMS FEEL REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE, UNFORTUNATELY, HAVE TO LEAVE IT UNFORTUNATELY.

THANKS TO THE 2