They said it: Keeping protest peaceful

“We don’t want to be deterred by these individual actors who are trying to agitate us on purpose. . . So we just ignore them.”

— Emily Williams, Stanford student and pro-Palestine activist, on their “do NOT ENGAGE” strategy to avoid conflict with counter-protesters over the Gaza war. Pro-Palestinian protests have gripped campuses across the country but those in the Bay Area have avoided violent confrontations seen elsewhere.