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Hashem Amireh was sitting by himself in a conference room when his friends texted him, around 5:30 a.m. on April 30, to say that UNC campus police were coming to dismantle the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the quad. Amireh, a doctoral student in economics who serves as president of the UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student union, had spent much of the previous four days at the encampment but wasn’t on-site that morning because he’d walked 20 yards away from his tent to get some work done in Gardner Hall. When campus...