Some instructors appear to be fed up
A trio of pro-Hamas student activists recently barged into a University of Colorado Boulder classroom and were promptly hauled back out by their keffiyehs.
The Daily Camera reports after entering the “Designing for Defense” class last week, one of the activists went to the front of the room and prepared to read a statement, whereupon a man who appeared to be the instructor said “No, you may not.”
He then grabbed the statement and said “Get out.”
Soon after, a video from the Buffs 4 Palestine Instagram page shows two men, one of whom “appeared to be [neither] an employee or student,” according to the Camera, dragging the activists from the room.
“Two students were violently assaulted by a CU Boulder professor for interrupting a Designing for Defense class, a course that directly collaborates with the U.S. military to develop weapons and surveillance tools while the Israeli regime carries out a U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza,” a Buffs 4 Palestine statement reads.
“Their action was not only justified, it was morally necessary. ”
The group demanded the class be “shut down,” that CU divest from Israel and “all arms manufacturers,” cease cooperation with ICE, and issue a public condemnation of the “assault” against the activists.
If CU “chooses to side with genocide,” the statement concludes, Buffs 4 Palestine “will make it impossible for them to do so in peace.”
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The pro-Hamas student organization has been in “bad standing” since October due to violations of university policy. These include “disrupting a career fair” and “using amplified sound.”
Student protestors get dragged out by their keffiyehs after disrupting a class at the University of Colorado Boulder: pic.twitter.com/qOI3jT4MOT
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 5, 2025
The local CBS affiliate interviewed one of the classroom-invading activists who said the whole experience “was terrifying.”
“Our goal was to go in and read our statement, which was about two-to-three minutes long, and then leave,” the mask-covered/blurred-out female activist said. “Alternatively, if we were told to leave beforehand we would just leave because it just was not worth … more than that.”
She added “the violence that occurred … was just a horrific example of the attitudes against protesters” on the CU Boulder campus.
In a statement, the university said it “condemns acts of violence and does not tolerate classroom disruptions, both of which violate state law and university policies.”
“Our campus has long supported our campus community’s right to free expression, so long as those activities are carried out legally and in line with university policy, and do not threaten public safety.”
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IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: A man drags a pro-Hamas activist from a CU Boulder classroom; Boulder SDS/Instagram. INTERIOR VIDEO: CBS Colorado
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