While destructive, this is still non-violent protest, and colleges around the US (and world) made it clear that opposing Israel's genocide in *any* fashion would be treated as antisemitism and worthy of immediate state violence, expulsion, doxing, and for immigrants, sometimes permanent exile.

> Members of a pro-Palestinian group charged in connection with the May 2025 occupation of a University of Washington engineering building pleaded not guilty this week to first-degree criminal trespassing.
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> Most of the 33 members of the group, called Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return UW, or SUPER UW, entered not guilty pleas Wednesday morning during King County District Court arraignments. Each was arrested during the May 5 protest — when demonstrators allegedly blocked entrances to the university’s Interdisciplinary Engineering Building and refused to leave for hours while damaging the new structure and equipment, according to court documents — and charged with first-degree criminal trespassing nearly 10 months later.
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> The remaining few already pleaded not guilty or have arraignments next month.
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> SUPER UW members called for UW to cut ties with Boeing, a major supplier to the Israel Defense Forces, and end what they called a “targeted assault” on pro-Palestinian activism. According to probable-cause documents, protester groups entered the engineering building and barricaded the doors while law enforcement tried to negotiate with them.
After a final dispersal order hours later, officers in riot gear entered the building and arrested protesters on suspicion of trespassing, property destruction and disorderly conduct, as well as conspiracy to commit all three crimes.
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> The King County prosecuting attorney’s office declined felony charges of first-degree malicious mischief and second-degree burglary referrals after UW police investigators said there was insufficient evidence, including a lack of surveillance video.