Officials of the Auraria Campus, which shares three universities in Denver, offered a deal to pro-Palestinian protesters to take down the encampment in exchange for a $15,000 donation to Gaza.
Students promptly rejected the offer.
In a letter to the student group organizing the protest, officials said several donors are prepared to offer a $15,000 donation to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which operates both in Gaza and Tel Aviv, if the activists dismantled their encampment by 5 p.m. Thursday.
The donation would have been made under Students for a Democratic Society's name.
The encampment had sprung up April 25, was cleared by the police and came back up over the weekend, following several arrests.
For now, university officials have decided against sending the police back in.
Ignoring university officials, the pro-Palestinian protesters have set up roughly 50 tents in an encampment that started last Thursday. Demonstrators over the weekend at the Auraria Campus in Denver say they are prepared to "defend" the encampment until their demands — notably divestment from companies that operate in Israel — are met.
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