Pro-Palestine encampment packs up at Purdue, but then …

A push for backing from West Lafayette for a cease fire resolution ends in shouts Monday as a city council member starts to give a history lesson

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PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATORS TAKE DOWN ENCAMPMENT ON DAY 12 AT PURDUE

STANDOFF OVER CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION CONTINUES, ENDS IN SHOUTS AT WL CITY COUNCIL LATER THAT NIGHT

On the 12^th day of demonstrating on Purdue grounds, joining students on other U.S. campuses calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and pushing for university divestment in support of military means for Israel, students on Monday took down tents and disassembled 2-by-4 lumber used to carry pro-Palestinian banners and messages along Memorial Mall.

Student leaders said they would continue to press the university and the community on the issue in the coming months.

(Photo: Dave Bangert)

And they started that Monday evening by marching to West Lafayette City Hall to get the city council to take up a resolution in favor of a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas – something the city council declined to do for a third consecutive month in a meeting that ended in angry jeers. (See more on that below.)