UPenn faculty blocks main building in pro-Palestinian ‘die-in’ protest in violation of school policy

A pro-Palestinian University of Pennsylvania faculty group blocked the main entrance to the school’s College Hall during a “die-in” protest to mourn those who have died in Gaza after Israel’s response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

Approximately 86 school faculty participated in or spectated the protest held by the Ivy League school’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian, a student-run nonprofit group at the university. UPenn Jewish student leader Eyal Yakoby, who witnessed the die-in, told the Washington Examiner that about 20 faculty members blocked the College Hall entrance as part of the demonstration.