Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UC San Diego, 2024. For a few days in May 2024, I documented the Gaza Solidarity encampment outside UC San Diego's Geisel Library. What I witnessed daily was unequivocal: a pacifist demonstration. Students maintained tents, shared food; never weapons, never violence. The UCSDivest Coalition's demands were clear: divest from weapons manufacturers, condemn Gaza's destroyed universities, and grant amnesty to protesters. On May 6, Chancellor Khosla authorized a militarized police response. Officers in riot gear dismantled the peaceful encampment, arresting 64 people. The contrast was clear and sad: unarmed students met with force on their own campus. Days later, as the encampment's absence lingered, a pro-Israel demonstration appeared, featuring ex-IDF soldiers asserting their right to the land and justifying the very violence students had protested. Their presence underscored what the encampment had sought to challenge: the normalization of occupation and the university's financial complicity. Another thing was clear. Protests are for some people, not for everyone. My photographs bear witness to what official statements obscured. This was not an "illegal" threat requiring riot gear. It was student speech demanding moral accountability. When institutions criminalize peaceful dissent while welcoming armed state actors onto campus, they reveal whose humanity they value. These images document not disorder, but conscience.