UCLA Radio’s live coverage of these events began Monday, April 29. Any perspectives shared below do not reflect the views of ASUCLA Student Media.

Early Thursday morning on April 25, 2024, students at UCLA set up an encampment in Dickson Court to demand that the UC disclose their assets and divest from companies involved in Israel’s war on Gaza. The encampment has since steadily expanded while demonstrators peacefully engage in a variety of programming led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). This post seeks to provide the most up-to-date information and developments concerning UCLA’s movements for Palestinian liberation, and will be continually updated.

It is Day 250 of the genocide in Palestine. While shells bombard Rafah, massacres across central and northern Gaza continue with hundreds of thousands on the brink of starvation. Violence against Palestinians is escalating in the West Bank, while the perpetrators of these crimes enjoy the unwavering support of the US war machine.

From Amsterdam to Tokyo to our home in Los Angeles, a global movement this Spring saw students occupy university grounds to express their solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Following the aftermath of Wednesday night’s brutal police raid on the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment (PSE) on UCLA’s campus, the encampment released an official statement.

The thing that sticks with me is the juxtaposition: all that ugliness against so much beauty. I’m telling you, the protestors were not an angry mob of teens. There was beauty in the drum circles in and outside the camp that led us through hours of chanting. There was beauty in all those books, and in the mental health clinic on site. There was beauty in the Anawakalmekak, Los Angeles County’s only Indigenous K-12 school, who lent their voices and called for freedom of speech for the students of UCLA. Beauty in locking arms to create a wall outside the camp and beauty inside it.