Campus security checks a bag at a metal detector Oct. 7 where Terps for Israel were honoring those killed and kidnapped during Hamas attacks in Israel last year. Photo by William J. Ford.
Fears of violence did not pan out Monday, as pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups held competing – and peaceful – events under a heavy security presence on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.
The university had tried to block all student-sponsored activities on Monday, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas terror attacks that killed 1,200 in Israel and sparked the Israel-Hamas war…