LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Groups of demonstrators shouted each other down at UNLV's campus on Wednesday.
A group of close to 80 pro-Palestine demonstrators chanted outside the university’s Student Union for hours late morning and into the afternoon.
Those demonstrators shouted slogans like “5-6-7-8….Israel is a terror state.”
In response, a group of pro-Israel demonstrators at times attempted to shout down the group, though that group was smaller, with about a dozen people.
Miriam Borvick is a first-year student at UNLV who is also Jewish. She says she wanted to make sure to make her voice heard Wednesday on campus.
"We should be proud of who we are, and we should not let people walk all over us," Borvick said. "To be honest, I think a lot of these people don't know anything about what's going on in Israel."
She says she appreciates the safety enhancements university leaders have made, but would like to see UNLV officials do more for Jewish students.
"They don't do enough to bring Jewish students into their diversity and their inclusion," Borvick said.
Shortly after Borvick spoke with Channel 13, another UNLV student not involved in the demonstrations told us they support the "free Palestine" movement, calling it "important."
As the groups made their voices heard, members of UNLV’s police department looked on, at times asking members of each group to keep a distance from each other. There were no reported arrests.
It all comes as similar protests are making headlines at universities across the country. At UCLA, classes were canceled after clashes between dueling groups of protesters. And at USC, a graduation ceremony was canceled after more than 90 protesters were arrested on campus.
