Politics

The northern California students are part of a group of 12 who were charged with felony conspiracy to trespass and felony vandalism in connection to an hour-long, June 2024 occupation during which the group barricaded themselves inside the university president’s office to demand Stanford consider a student resolution to divest from Israel, among other requests.

On the heels of similar actions at other universities across the US, the students in question unofficially renamed the building after Adnan al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon who was reportedly tortured to death while in Israeli detention.

The university suspended the students immediately after their arrest and banned them from campus for two terms, until the conclusion of an internal disciplinary process which found they had violated university policy, but allowed them back on campus that fall.