College protest in Davis: Pro-Palestinian camp set up [Video]

DAVIS, Calif — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators built an encampment on the UC Davis campus, joining a wave of similar protests nationwide.

A group named UC Davis Popular University for the Liberation of Palestine, or UCD PULP, began erecting the tents a little after 9:00 a.m. Monday, on the quad near the Memorial Union.

“We are following the history of other student movements who also asked their university for change, and we’re demanding that our university makes change,” said Hannah Zeltzer, a UC Davis law student.

The group listed its demands of the university on its front entrance, chief among them that the university divest in Israel and the war in Gaza.

“I will say that the mood on campus is that people want to see real movement on all of …