Pro-Palestine protests. Image @vozdeamerica
Washington, April 26 (RHC) The pro-Palestinian protests, which in recent days left hundreds of people arrested after the police raided the campuses, are spreading to more than 40 universities in the United States.
Students from Emory University, Northwestern University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Princeton University and the City College of New York set up camps in solidarity with the flame that was lit at Columbia University.
Young people are demanding an end to Israel’s war against the Palestinian Hamas movement in Gaza, as well as an end to the investment of their study centers in companies that profit from it or, more broadly, do business with Tel Aviv.
This week, the University of Southern California (USC), the University of Texas at Austin and Emerson College in Boston reported many arrests.
For example, at the University of Texas at Austin, local and state police, including some on horseback, were called in and violently broke up a student encampment on campus. It is estimated that 50 people were detained, including at least one journalist.
Meanwhile, in the state of Massachusetts, law enforcement officers arrested more than a hundred people in the early hours of Thursday morning and dismantled a student camp that had been set up at Emerson College in the city of Boston, according to press reports.
Meanwhile, tension at USC in Los Angeles as police stormed the campus and gave protesters “10 minutes” to disperse; Additionally, they canceled their main graduation ceremony there due to security concerns. The same could happen at Columbia University in New York.
USC saw its first protests after Muslim student Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech was canceled due to unspecified threats to security, sparking a wave of outrage that led to arrests not only of students, but at the University of Columbia, where the first Gaza support camp was set up on April 17. (Source:PL)
