University of Texas student A. Rose puts her hands up as State Troopers shove the crowd forward on April 24, 2024.
Ammer Qaddumi, the first to be arrested on April 24, looks to a barefoot protestor under arrest by a State Trooper at The University of Texas.
Rayan A., a student demonstrator of Palestinian-decent, holds the R in "cease fire" during the Israeli Block Party protest at The University of Texas on April 2, 2024.
Protestors march silently down speedway during the annual Israeli Block Party at The University of Texas on April 2, 2024.
University of Texas police officers pin a protester to the main lawn on campus, using zip ties as handcuffs, on April 24, 2024.
Jenna Homsi leads traditional Palestinian dancing, Dabke, while playing the darbuka at the annual Cafe Resistance by the Palestine Solidarity committee on April 19, 2024.
Double exposure: Ammer Qaddumi demonstrates Dabke to his sister Lamar at Cafe Resistance on April 19, 2024. Lamar Qaddumi holds a call with Ammer outside Travis County Jail before his release on April 24, 2024.
Rafi and Lamar Qaddumi (center) during the faculty & staff protest demanding a no-confidence vote on UT President Jay Hartzell on April 25, 2024
Ammer Qaddumi addresses a cheering crowd in his first appearance after his release from Travis County Jail, before taking a final exam on April 25, 2024.
A protestor hits the ground during an arrest by an Austin police officer at The University of Texas during the second major day of campus protests on April 29, 2024.
Ammer Qaddumi holds a copy of The Austin Chronicle and his keffiyeh on May 5, 2024.
Aman Odeh, a pediatrician who treated patients in Gaza, stands for a portrait before testifying on the right to free speech on college campuses at The Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education hearing on May 14, 2024.
Two days after graduating UT-Austin, Kennedy Cortez sits in the capitol rotunda before testifying to defend pro-Palestine demonstrations on campus on May 14, 2024. “It is an ethnic cleansing, an ethnic cleansing of a whole people exactly like the ethnic cleansing that happened to my people,” Cortez said, “the original people of these lands.”
The UT-Austin class of 2024 celebrates commencement on May 11, 2024.
The Palestine Solidarity Committee decorates for an art walk on campus.
Over 200 protest former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett talk at the UT-Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs in a noise demonstration on Nov. 19, 2024.
Texas State history professor Jessica Pliley poses for a portrait on campus in San Marcos, Texas on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025.
UT-Austin President Jim Davis before giving an invited testimony for the Senate Select Committee on Civil Discourse and Freedom of Speech in Higher Education on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025.
Students protest the inauguration of 31st University of Texas President Jim Davis on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025.