United States, May 5.- University students around the world continue to show solidarity with Palestine, while in Gaza the genocide perpetrated by Israel against the civilian population for more than 200 days continues.
At Princeton University, in the United States, a group of students announced a hunger strike until the center’s administration meets their demands regarding a modification of its relations with Israel.
The demands range from revealing links with the Zionist government and withdrawing its investments, to a complete academic and cultural boycott of the occupation government in Tel Aviv.
As explained by those planted in Princeton, the new measure honors the Palestinian political prisoners, who have resorted to this method of struggle in Israeli prisons since 1968.
In this case, the refusal to eat food symbolizes the firm commitment of these young people to justice and solidarity, and is a small sacrifice, compared to the current suffering of the Palestinian people, they stressed.
During the last two weeks, the wave of university protests in the United States and several European countries increased exponentially, in support of Palestine and in repudiation of Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the state of the same name, US security services prevented the media from covering a press conference given by participants in the sit-in against the war in Gaza.
The security forces expelled journalists and technical teams from the concentration area, fenced with iron barriers and completely isolated from the environment.
From the French University of the Sorbonne in Paris, thousands of young people decided to denounce the Israeli war in Gaza, and accused Emmanuel Macron’s government of “collusion” with the genocidal entity.
The slogans “Stop the fire, stop the genocide” and “There is no justice in the Middle East without justice for the Palestinian people” demonstrated their support for the cause in Gaza, the West Bank and the rest of the occupied territories.
These protesters demanded that the French government not give more “political cover” to the crimes committed by “Israel” against civilians, and not allow them to “escape punishment, as always.”
In addition, protests took place this week in front of the Institute of Political Sciences in Lyon and Paris, where police beat several students and attempted to disperse protesters by force.
For his part, the French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, justified the repressive actions with the pretext of responding to “requests presented by the rectors”, and that is why the forces of order intervened immediately because “the firmness was and will continue to be total.” .
Likewise, dozens of pro-Palestinian students and activists set up tents in front of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (the largest in the federal district and in the country), in solidarity with the protesters in the United States.
Similarly, dozens of young people took over the lobby of a building affiliated with the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, and demanded an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, in addition to an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
The tension between the administration of Columbia University in the United States and its students reached the point that dozens of New York Police officers entered the university campus, in order to evict a protest camp and arrest the protesters. , who took control of one of the academic buildings.
In two weeks, this is the second call to the repressive forces to control those mobilized in that house of higher education, which the pro-Zionist administration accompanied with other intimate measures, such as preventing those involved from entering their classrooms or threatening them with expulsion. of the university, and keep the police on alert 24 hours a day on campus.
On the other hand, in a press conference held at the White House, US President Joe Biden despised the student demonstrations and assured that they will not make him reconsider his policies in the Middle East. (Taken from Cubadebate.cu)
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