Student protesters were pulled out of a House Judiciary committee on free speech Wednesday as they called out for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
One after another, the students rose and began to shout, disrupting the committee meeting as silent members of the House of Representatives watched.
"Palestinian students deserve to speak on the genocide of their families," shouted one young woman. "Stop silencing Palestinian students."
The students' protest comes amid an ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas after the Oct. 7 attacks left hundreds dead and thousands wounded.
"End the occupation," cried a woman in a New York University shirt. "Ceasefire now."
At least five students were yanked from the hearing, which seeks to address violence on college campuses across the nation as Jewish and Palestinian students grapple with polarizing beliefs about the conflict.
In California, an Arab Muslim student at Stanford University was hurt in a hit-and-run crash Friday that's being investigated as a hate crime, the New York Times reports. On the east coast, a University of Massachusetts-Amherst student stands accused of punching a Jewish student and spitting on the Israeli flag.
The protesters who stood up in the hearing were peaceful.
