A Hoosier Palestinian activist said Sunday that a new protest policy at Indiana University is too restrictive.
The policy that began this month bans camping unless it’s specifically for a university event, and mandates protestors get approval before erecting temporary structures.
“IU has been censoring students throughout this entire experience, with everything that’s happening, myself as a previous student who was advocating on behalf of the Palestinian human rights, I felt there was always censorship that I was facing,” he told WISH-TV.
Yaqoub Saadeh is the co-founder of the Middle Eastern Student Association at IU-Indianapolis. He accuses IU of censoring students.
In April, police arrested 23 protestors and forcibly removed dozens of others from Dunn Meadow. At the time, IU cited a statute from 1969 that prohibited tens on campus after 11:00 pm.
“I was being silenced in any way shape or form, so these new policies kind of feel the same as that,” he added.
Saadeh said he was saddened to see state police use force to remove the protesters instead of handling the situation peacefully.
“It was weird energy. I’ve never seen that much negative energy toward student protesters, people were protesting for something peaceful,” said Saadeh.
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Of course Yaqoub Saadeh would feel oppressed….anything short of the IU Police enforcing Sharia Law would not be enough for him. He should move back to one of the hell holes that do that so he can be another happy sunbaked lunatic screaming at the sky and wanting to kill everyone else who is not as unhappy as he is.