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Gallery

Please add a gallery section containing these images to the page. Alternatively, please upload these images in some form to the page:

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  Pro-Palestinian protesters hold the Palestinian flag at a Columbus, OH march after the October 7 invasion.
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  Police officers lined up outside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on April 25, 2024.
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  Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate in the street at a Columbus, OH march after the October 7 invasion.
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  Pro-Palestinian protesters holding a sign at a Columbus, OH march after the October 7 invasion.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 01:10, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Added the image of police officers, but not the others that aren't directly related to the 2024 protests. CNC ( talk) 11:48, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Vol 1

Please view my source code to copy + paste from this section as needed.

• There is a double reference, the first being after "protest-related arrests in one day since the 1969–1970 Vietnam War protests". Please give this ref a name and replace the reference of the same link with a reference to this name rather than having the same source twice.
• In 'April 23: Meiling Hall disruption', please replace ^{citation needed} with ^[1].
• In 'April 25: Encampment', please replace ^{citation needed} with ^[2]
• In the same section, please replace ^{citation needed} after "occasionally issuing threats." with a link to the existing citation: "University says officers had readied firearms, directed toward protesters from Ohio Union's roof once arrests began". The Lantern. April 2024. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
• Please replace ^{citation needed} after "the team carries standard equipment, including firearms, that would only be used reactively to protect the safety of all present, including demonstrators." with "At least 12 arrested after police break up 6-hour Israel protest at Ohio State University". MSN. 2024-06-15. Retrieved 2024-06-15.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 02:02, 16 June 2024 (UTC) Onlineone22 ( talk) 02:02, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

 Completed

• Removed duplicate ref
• Added Meiling Hall disruption citation, re-paragraphed
• April 25: Encampment, used the ref, but only for listing SJP as organizers. The source does not explicitly reference Columbia protests, only as part of a "national solidarity campaign", that is somewhat a given. Probably better just to add a background excerpt for overall context.
• "occasionally issuing threats" not verified by suggested source, so removed content.
• "the team carries standard equipment", added Columbus Disptach source (avoid syndicated feeds such as MSN/Yahoo).

Otherwise removed some editorialising per MOS:EDITORIAL and MOS:SAID. CNC ( talk) 12:22, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Vol 2

• In 'April 25: Encampment', "Arrests are not an action we take lightly, and we appreciate the support of all of our law enforcement partners to disperse the encampment for the safety of our university community." Please add citation to the https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/ohio-state-university/about-three-dozen-pro-palestine-protesters-arrested-at-ohio-state/ source that is cited twice in the article already (first cited after the Vietnam War protests excerpt).
• In 'April 29: Columbus City Council testimonies,' every citation needed in this section can be linked to the YouTube video in the first citation of this section (City of Columbus (June 5, 2023). Columbus City Council Pro-Palestine Discourse. Retrieved June 11, 2024).
• In 'June 1: Children's Day disruption,' please replace the [citation needed] with a second reference to the same Instagram post in that section.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 02:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

•  Done April 25: Encampment: Done, corrected quote that was missing a word.
•  Not done April 29: Columbus City Council testimonies:. While I beleive this passes the WP:RSPYT sniff test, ie it is an official account, given the video is 2 and a half hours long, Cite AV media template is needed here for referencing, as is unrealistic to expect anyone to watch this entire video in order to verify the content. So for each "nonspecific" tag, can you please provide the timestamps from the video, so I can make up the citations? If the sentence can all be verified by the same timsetamp, then just one timestamp will do. Thanks.
  • Example 1: pro-Palestine demonstrators filled the gallery and yelled slogans such as "shame", timestamp XX:XX
  • Example 2: The second student speaker described having "a severe concussion", timestamp XX:XX, etc...
• Suggestion June 1: Children's Day disruption: Please find a better source, per WP:INSTAGRAM. This is an "ok" source for certain things, but pushes the limits when starting to describe numbers of arrests etc as is a WP:PRIMARYSOURCE.

CNC ( talk) 12:50, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Vol 3

• In 'December 13: Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists suspension', please replace all [citation needed] with citations to the source: "Reinstatement". CORSRev. March 6, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
• In 'March 25: Undergraduate Student Government divestment scandal', please replace [citation needed] in this section with a reference to the final citation in that section: "University pauses vote on USG divestment ballot initiative". The Lantern. March 2024. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
• In 'April 20: Ohio State Student Union protest clash', please replace the first [citation needed] with a reference to the previous citation ("JJP Hillel Instagram Post". March 28, 2024. Retrieved June 9, 2024.) and the second [citation needed] to a reference to the previously mentioned citation ("Masked individuals hold banner outside OSU Hillel calling Israel 'genocidal state'". Cleveland Jewish News. June 8, 2024. Retrieved June 9, 2024.)
• In 'Anti-Palestinian', please replace the [citation needed] with a reference to the next citation in the article that is used three times in that section.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 02:37, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

 Completed

• December 13:  Done there is a major issue with this section as it relies primarily on a single source, hence citation added. It otherwise appears to add WP:UNDUE weight to the article, and without reliable secondary sources, would better being refined or removed.
• March 25:  Done though used the ""OSU Divests initiative..." Lantern source for verify content
• April 20 ie March 27:  Done
• Anti-Palestinian:  Done paragraphed content, removed some wordiness and mos:claim

Have added citation needed tag to "no reported incidents of anti-semitic hate speech at the Ohio State University", as this doesn't appear to supported by any sources. To clarify, the lack of reports of incidents is not a reliable source. Otherwise changed the sentence of the university's condemnations, as nothing in the source referencing anti-Zionist slogans or otherwise. CNC ( talk) 13:36, 16 June 2024 (UTC) reply

In the section 'April 29: Columbus City Council testimonies,' the following are the corresponding timestamps in the video with the testimonies:

• 42:10, 43:06 - students yelled slogans such as "shame"
• 45:28 - The second student speaker alludes to her criminal charges.
• For the "pending criminal charges" point, please add this citation: {{cite web |url= https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/2024/05/01/ohio-state-president-letter-about-protest-arrests/73513677007/ |title=Ohio State president's letter on April 29 about protest arrests |website=The Columbus Dispatch |date=May 1, 2024 |access-date=June 17, 2024}
• 41:02 - The second student speaker described having "a severe concussion" from her injuries at the encampment.
• 49:42 - The third student speaker describes his pants being pulled down after being ziptied.
• 50:32 - The third student begins to describe the sequence of events that led to another demonstrator hitting his head, the police saying "that's what you signed up for," and it taking 15 minutes for the student to get paramedics.

@ CNC, thank you for your help getting my changes added yesterday—I really appreciate it.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 04:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Suggestion

In the section 'April 29: Columbus City Council testimonies,' I believe the second student's testimony would be enhanced by including additional information. Beginning at 41:02, her speech is as follows:

I have transcribed it for you so that it is easier for you to include whatever parts of it you feel are conducive to the article (or at least paraphrase her main points with brief excerpts from her speech). Please make syntactic edits and use your discretion in what to include as needed.

Speech transcription

- "Thanks to the officers on April 25th, I'm having a little trouble reading and writing and remembering things. My processing speed is about half, I have a severe concussion, so please bear with me today. You see when the officers saw me about four rows back and pointed me out about four community members stepped in front of me to stop my arrest. That is when they proceeded to pick me up by both my hair and my neck and slam my head into the ground and hold me there before dragging me through the grass of my oval. Not to mention at one point three officers picked me up by my ankles and wrists as an officer explained to trainee officers what a 'three-man hold' was. I am glad somebody learned something on campus today, because it certainly wasn't the sixteen students brutally assaulted emotionally and physically by officers—the same officers that you are unbelievably considering raising the budget for today. When we arrived at the jail, there were three hijabi women amongst us—two of which their hijabs were forcefully removed; one of which her hijab wasn't returned until I made a scene. And all of which were forced to take mugshots without their hijabs. They had twenty women in a holding cell which meant there was no place to pray. When I asked for something to pray on—once at 3:00, and the second time at 5:00—I was refused and instead berated and called disrespectful by an officer for repeating myself. We were refused both hilal and kosher meals, which didn't end up being a problem for us but was for our Jewish comrade who was ironically celebrating passover. The first day I came in here in October, I said we had been living in a dystopia, and honestly, I think I disagree with myself today. We haven't been living in a dystopia for the last week or even the last seven months; instead we have been living in a simulation, the Sparksnotes version if you will, a select taste of what life is like in Palestine, which should come as no surprise honestly because our cops are trained by the IOF and Israeli Leadership Academy [which] regularly visits the Columbus Police Academy. CPD has developed strategies and methodologies that were originally implemented and taught by Israeli right-wing lobby groups—the same groups that are currently perpetuating the massacre of 30,000 people in a little over 200 days. We had 41 people arrested, which is one-third of the average daily killed and injured in Gaza. We have women's hijabs being forcefully removed which is all too reminiscent of the humiliation tactics of the IOF, who regularly strip Palestinian women they arrest for no other reason than to humiliate. I won't be humiliated, nor will I allow them to think they humiliated [me]; I was likewise stripsearched by CPD in complete eyeline of male officers."

The cameras turn off, the crowd jeers "turn the camera on". Harding says "the camera is on. Please, Dilal, you can continue."

"We are having Palestinian students be brutalized emotionally and physically from Gaza to Columbus. I spent two days in the ER missing my thesis dissertation and my final exams, and you know what the fucked up thing really is?"

Harding: "Well if you continue to use language, we—"

Dilal: "I couldn't care less. Because I know—if you're upset at my language and not at the actions of your police force, then that's what's fucked up. No matter how many concussions, no matter how many times the CPD tries to intimidate, and no matter what tactics they use to scare and humiliate us, it won't even touch on what the people of Gaza have gone through. You are allowing—and if anything applauding, by even considering this budget change—the brutalization of your community for the agenda of a genocidal governmental body. You have only messed up since October. The least you can do for your community is work with us to drop the charges. Unfortunately, as students, we haven't learned a lot this schoolyear. We have been a little distracted, but [what] we have learned, and witnessed, and mastered in so little time is the teachings—and we are now teaching the importance of community and the need to protect one's community. As the world turns their heads to students and student activism, maybe you can take a minute to look in our direction and learn a thing or two as well."

Onlineone22 ( talk) 05:00, 17 June 2024 (UTC) reply

In the 'April 29 Columbus City Council testimonies' section, the first video should be in April 25 encampment section, not the testimony section, as it is footage of what happened at the encampment. If this could please be moved that would be appreciated.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 05:06, 17 June 2024 (UTC) reply

"comprisedof" should be "comprised of".

Onlineone22 ( talk) 05:07, 17 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Here is a video recording of the June 1st arrests. Protesters can visibly be seen in handcuffs in the background. I have worked for a very long time to get better sources for this event, but this was the best I could find (no news reports exist, and the only other sources dox the protesters involved). Hopefully this should be sufficient for the [more citations needed] marker to be removed.

Ohio Union Arrests June 1 2024. YouTube. Retrieved June 17, 2024.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 01:53, 18 June 2024 (UTC) reply

I have a quick question regarding the "this section relies largely upon a single source" banner. Understandably, OSU would not want to make the issue of suspending a student org over a political issue more public than it needs to be. So there are very few sources outside of the article on CORS' website and a Lantern article (both of which are cited). How could we be expected to add more sources to this section if the only sources that could be expected to report upon this issue in detail (aside from The Lantern) are first-hand accounts of the events that occurred? More specifically, what realistically can we do to remove the "This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source" banner?

Onlineone22 ( talk) 01:53, 18 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Here are 7 more media from April 25, 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Please edit their captions and upload them as you feel is needed for the article (probably choose the ones you think are most important).

09:22, 17 June 2024 (UTC) Onlineone22 ( talk) 09:22, 17 June 2024 (UTC) reply

'April 25: Gaza Solidarity Encampment' section:

"By the end of the evening, at least 36 protesters, including 16 Ohio State students and 20 non-Ohio State students, had been arrested,"

This has a typo and is redundant, considering how 36 protesters being arrested is mentioned directly below. If it could please be removed, that would be appreciated.

Onlineone22 ( talk) 09:31, 17 June 2024 (UTC) reply