Overview
- Protesters from the group SUPER UW occupied UW's Interdisciplinary Engineering Building on May 5, causing extensive damage, including vandalism and arson, estimated at over $1 million.
- The university has suspended 21 students involved in the protest and banned them from all campuses, with non-student participants also barred from the Seattle campus.
- The federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is reviewing UW's compliance with civil rights laws and its federal grants in response to the incident.
- UW President Ana Mari Cauce condemned the protest as violent and illegal, criticizing the group's statement celebrating Hamas' 2023 attacks on Israel.
- Protesters demanded the university sever all ties with Boeing, citing its defense contracts, and defaced a Boeing mural during the occupation.