‘Our walls look different today:’ Motley Coffeehouse removes flag displays, cites Scripps admin email and ‘Palestine exception’

The Motley Coffeehouse removed its flag displays on Nov. 13, announcing the decision in a same-day Instagram post. The post, which highlights the Palestinian and Ukrainian flags’ removal, cites a Nov. 10 email from Scripps College as the reason behind the change. The post said that the email from Scripps gave the coffeehouse two options: to keep the Palestinian flag displayed and additionally display the American and Israeli flags at the same “size” and “prominence,” or to remove all flag displays. The post does not specify which administrator or office the email came from. The Motley then noted that “neither option aligns with our mission statement or community consensus.

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