SEATTLE — Pro-Palestinian students at the University of Washington occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building Monday evening, renaming it the Shaban al-Dalou Building, in protest against the university's ties to Boeing.

The group Super UW is demanding the university sever ties with Boeing as warfare continues in Gaza. As of Monday night, there were at least a few dozen people chanting and listening to music outside the IEB, which sits right across from The Hub in the heart of campus.

It was the same time a year earlier, activists took over the Quad at UW for three weeks with a pro-Palestinian encampment, demanding UW break ties with the aerospace company and Israel. That so-called Liberated Zone was removed after the group came to an agreement with the university and following concern over anti-Semitic graffiti.

"We’re hoping to remove the influence of Boeing and other manufacturing companies from our educational space, period, and we’re hoping to expose the repressive tactics of the university," Super UW Spokesperson Eric Horford told KOMO News.

A banner now hangs in the second-floor window as the group seeks to re-name the building after a teenage engineering student killed by an airstrike in Gaza.

A separate group dressed in all black stacked furniture to create a blockade in front of the building before toppling dumpsters to block off nearby Jefferson Road, then confronted a security officer until he drove away.

As Super UW brought in water, coolers, and chairs, they said they would not leave until the university met its list of demands:

1. Boeing out of the IEB. Repurpose the building into a community-controlled space with pro-people education.
2. Boeing out of UW. Stop receiving any and all donations from Boeing. Return any existing donations and financial investments, and eliminate all other material ties to Boeing. Prohibit Boeing executives and employees from teaching classes or having any influence over curriculum.
3. End the expulsion, suspension, and all repression and targeted assault of pro-Palestine activism and activists, especially providing protections for our fellow students being targeted by the federal government for their immigration status.

"We are here to negotiate with the university, and we are hoping they’ll hear us and speak with us," Horford said.

On social media Monday night, the UW Jewish Alumni Association expressed disappointment that university leadership failed to prevent another demonstration.

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"We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world," wrote the protestors in the manifesto.

The manifesto continued to note they believe the UW administration "prioritizes their ability to rake in blood money over the demands of their students and workers."

UW provided the following statement in response to a KOMO News inquiry:

"UW police are on-site at the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, which was occupied by a few dozen individuals starting just before the building closed at 5 p.m. The trespassers are mostly covering their faces and stacking building furniture near entryways. To the best of our knowledge, everyone connected to the UW who does not want to be inside the building has left. Individuals remaining in the building are trespassing and will face legal and student conduct actions. Since this is an ongoing police matter, for security reasons we have no additional information to share at this time."

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"This March, after months of delays, the Board of Regents completely rejected the formation of an Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing (ACSRI), the first step in the official process to initiate divestment," wrote the protestors. "This is a complete refusal to even investigate UW's ties to companies complicit in zionist genocide and occupation."

The occupation of the IEB comes over a year after pro-Palestinian protestors set up an encampment in the campus's quad.

The pro-Palestinian protestors' calls for action come as Boeing has donated more than $100 million to the University of Washington in the last century. As a result, thousands of UW graduates have found work at Boeing, particularly in engineering positions.

In 2022, Boeing also gave $10 million toward a new interdisciplinary engineering building on the UW campus, the same location that students occupied on May 5.

The protestors wrote that "Palestine teaches us that true power comes not from the state but from the people themselves and that no amount of money, brutality, or technological advancement can destroy a true people's movement."

The pro-Palestinian protestors ended their manifesto with a call to action, urging students, teachers and workers to take action alongside the people of Palestine.

We call on our fellow UW students, teachers, workers, and youth to take action with us alongside the people of Palestine and their brave resistance. Here in the center of the US war machine, our university education is geared to produce the next administrators of the empire. But people of conscience everywhere are standing up! We refuse to be engineers of genocide. Our role must be to hinder the US empire – to stop the flow of bombs and ease the struggle of those fighting for liberation in Palestine and around the world.

UW campus police contacted the Seattle Police Department for "mutual aid assistance," according to the SPD.

The SPD continued to note that their task force has been mobilized, which is a routine procedure. No SWAT teams were sent, according to the SPD.

Shortly after 10 p.m., protestors began burning trash that was inside of a dumpster that was used to block one of the campus streets.