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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators listens to a speaker as they protest at Stanford University urging the university to divest from Israel and demanding a permanent cease-fire in the war in Gaza, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at Stanford University. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators listens to a speaker as they protest at Stanford University urging the university to divest from Israel and demanding a permanent cease-fire in the war in Gaza, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at Stanford University. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
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“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.