A New York University professor over the weekend praised the anti-Israel student encampment that has taken over his school’s campus for bringing students and faculty together in a way he’s “never seen before.”

“I spent two hours at the NYU encampment late last night. It was something I’ve never seen before at NYU: a real community, driven by shared ideals and filled with conversations about ideas. We need more of it, not less,” Jacob Remes, a clinical professor at NYU Gallatin, said on Sunday.