Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, denounced the police raid at an anti-Israel encampment on campus early Tuesday.
Abdelhadi, who spoke at a press conference in support of the protest on Monday, said the point of the raid was "terror."
"They waited for those kids to fall asleep. And then they pulled the tents from under them while they were sleeping. Shame on the University of Chicago," the professor posted on X.
"A beautiful space destroyed," she lamented in another post, sharing video of police tearing down tents and removing signage from the camp.
University President Paul Alivisatos said the school decided to call police to remove the encampment after days of negotiations that failed to come to a reasonable resolution. Alivisatos said the protesters made "intractable and inflexible" demands that were "fundamentally incompatible with the University's principled dedication to institutional neutrality."
Abdelhadi slammed a "deal" the university purportedly offered students because it "didn't have the word Palestine or Palestinian once."
