For eight hours on Thursday, students at Princeton University in the US were greeted by a 16-foot wall, made of wood and Styrofoam, representing Israel's separation wall, local media reported.
The Daily Princetonian, a college newspaper, reported Friday that the display was a protest by the Princeton Committee on Palestine and Amnesty International against the wall, which weaves in and out of the occupied West Bank.
PCP and AI members spent months planning, building, and painting the wall, which was marked with the words "peace not apartheid."
PCP president Yoel Bitran told the publication that the group wanted to "give Princeton students the opportunity to imagine what it would be like to grow up or go to school in a place surrounded by a prison of concrete and metal.".... Full story
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