Bowdoin College protesters barred from campus building push past to join encampment

New ‘Gaza Encampment’ Hits Bowdoin College

Anti-Zionist Bowdoin College students storming the Smith Union administrative building on the evening of February 6, 2025 to occupy it in protest of what they said are the college’s links to Israel. Photo: Screenshot “Gaza Solidarity Encampments” returned to American higher education on Thursday with the capture and occupation of an administrative building at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine by the group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP…

Bowdoin College protesters barred from campus building push past to join encampment

A group of students on Friday broke past security that were blocking Smith Union on the Bowdoin College campus to join a pro-Palestine encampment that had been set up since Thursday. College security has blocked access to Smith Union Friday morning as protesters affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) remain in the […]

Bowdoin College closes building where Gaza protesters are camping

Bowdoin College closed its student center Friday morning as students camped out inside the building and roughly 90 people gathered outside to urge the school to take action against Israel’s war in Gaza. The demonstrators included Bowdoin students and other community members, who called for the college to financially divest from arms companies supporting Israel in its war. While there have been other student demonstrations on Maine college campus…

Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College Form Encampment, Occupy Campus Building

"This action makes Bowdoin SJP the first known group of students to form a pro-Palestine encampment on a college campus this year."

Bowdoin Safety and Security lock down Smith Union, SJP encampment continues – The Bowdoin Orient

February 7, 2025, 1:10 p.m.: According to Senior Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs Scott Hood, Smith Union remains closed, but student protesters are holding open the doors to the building to allow people and supplies to pass through. …