Willamette students occupy campus center, seeking divestment from arms industry

This article was updated at 9 p.m. following the students’ Shabbat observance.

A group of Willamette University students are occupying the Putnam University Center on campus, demanding the university divest from the U.S. arms industry which they said is profiting from genocide in Gaza.

The occupation, organized by the university’s Students for a Democratic Society, joins a growing protest movement on campuses around the U.S. seeking to call attention to the Israel-Hamas war and urge…