Pro-Palestinian protesters reach agreement with Harvard University to end encampment

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters maintaining an encampment at Harvard University have reached an agreement with the university and will end their encampment, the group said in a news release Tuesday.

Harvard has agreed to hold reinstatement proceedings “for the over 20 students and student workers suspended by the University for their alleged participation in the encampment,” the group said. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

For 60 students and student workers facing disciplinary procedures, the university has agreed to expedite their cases “in line with precedents of leniency for similar actions in the past,” according to Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), the organization behind the encampment.

The agreement – which the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance described as an example of “mis-governance” by the university – comes as college officials around the country have called in law enforcement to clear pro-Palestinian encampments and quell demonstrations in recent weeks.

Alan Garber, Harvard’s interim president, in a message to the university community. Said he asked schools to “promptly initiate applicable reinstatement proceedings for all individuals who have been placed on involuntary leaves of absence.” Garber did not say how many students involved.

Garber also said he has asked the “disciplinary boards within each School to evaluate expeditiously. According to their existing practices and precedents, the cases of those who participated in the encampment.”

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