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Pro-Palestinian activists under increased surveillance on Massachusetts campuses
Rights groups are concerned as a growing number of pro-Palestinian activists, including Jewish activists, are being photographed and surveilled.
“Our purpose of taking pictures is to report to the administration how those people violate the safety and the well-being of Jewish students here on campus,” Spiegler said, wearing an Israeli flag wrapped around her shoulders. Kade Crockford, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said efforts to identify college students raises serious First Amendment concerns and is intended to discourage political speech. Dahlia said pro-Palestinian activists at Brandeis are encouraged to not only mask up but to wear head coverings, long sleeves to hide tattoos and to try “as much as humanly possible to get people to stop taking unwarranted photos and videos that can be used to directly threaten and harm students.”
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