The flare-up of anti-Israel protests in American universities

Mehr News, International Group: The student movement in support of Palestine has intensified throughout the United States and has spread to several other countries, and so far hundreds of students have been arrested by the police.

Students in these countries have always been among the leading groups supporting Palestine, but the brutal and widespread attacks of the Zionist military against the defenseless Palestinian people in the past 200 days and martyrdom and injuries Thousands of innocent Palestinians have caused the wave of protests to intensify among different student groups in universities across America and some European countries.

Now a rapid wave of protests, reminiscent of the anti-Vietnam War movement, is sweeping campuses across the United States in response to Israel’s war on Gaza, which has led to hundreds of arrests. A large number of classes have become in person and online, a wave that has also reached European universities and experienced it.

In this report, a part of the student protests in America and Europe against Israel and in support of Palestine, which has been portrayed in the media:

The anti-Israel demonstrations have spread to which of the American universities?

Columbia University

The police attack on students and their arrest at Columbia University in America has rekindled anti-Israel protests in America.

Columbia University is a private university in New York City, and the conflict between students and the police took place after some university officials asked the police to stop the student protest camp against gather Israel.

Before these clashes, the students of this university asked the university authorities to cut off their relations with Israeli companies and institutions.

Early last Wednesday, this group of students set up tents in one of the lawns of the university, and after that, they protested and raised slogans in solidarity with Palestine. They used to say that we are Hamas.

With the continued tension in Columbia and the fear of some students stepping on the university campus and being arrested by the police, the officials of this university announced that the university will continue learning until the end of the semester. It will be hybrid, meaning some classes will be online.

Although, Columbia is the latest university to witness anti-Zionist demonstrations in America, but this university has had records of protests before; Especially in 1968 when hundreds of students angry about racism and the Vietnam War occupied five university buildings.

Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. According to media reports, police in this city arrested 60 people, including 47 students, on Monday morning. .

The arrest of students over the past week came after a group of graduate students went on a hunger strike to withdraw from one of its famous schools and colleges affiliated to They want the university, i.e. the “Ivy League”, to stop cooperating with armed companies affiliated with Israel.

The student group of hunger strikers “Hunger for Palestine” has accused Yale of “complicity in the genocide” in Gaza by sending a letter to the university’s director Salvi. and has asked him to openly end the university’s investment in arms companies affiliated with Israel.

New York University

The New York police announced in a report that 133 anti-Israel protesters were arrested late Monday after a demonstration at New York University in front of the university’s business school. .

The spokesperson of New York University told the media that this demonstration was held without prior notice or permission from relevant authorities.

Massachusetts

The state of Massachusetts, in the eastern part of the United States, is famous for its academic and university institutions, but Boston, the center of this state, has witnessed the establishment of several anti-war protest camps in the last week. Israel has been against Palestine.

Emerson College students set up tents near campus buildings in downtown Boston. A group of Tufts University students also set up a tent camp in the “Medford” campus in this city.

Both groups object that their colleges have financial ties to pro-Israel organizations and research projects linked to anti-Palestinian efforts.

According to media reports, more than 12 camps and tents have been set up by protesting students on the university lawn at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Angry students announced that this college has direct funding from the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Emory University

The student movement against Israel soon became a pandemic in America. The students of this university also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the absence of a war machine from Tel Aviv by Washington and the White House by setting up tents and protest gatherings.

But the media reported that the Georgia State Police used stun guns to suppress and use violence against these students and protesters on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta. Georgia was arrested.

Harvard University

A number of Harvard University students also in the Harvard campus one day after the banning of the “Palestinian Solidarity Committee” group and a few days after the university’s access to the lawn was restricted. They set up a protest tent.

Brown University

Brown University is one of the oldest American universities in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, whose students have been active in the current movement and more than a dozen protest camps or tents in They set up a park on the university campus and asked the university authorities not to finance the companies that manufacture weapons for Israel and not to cooperate with them.

University of Michigan

The protesting students set up more than 30 tents in the central part of the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan, when the police dismantled a large number of these tents in a clash with the students, and a group of students arrested.

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota in the city of Minneapolis in the US state of Minnesota was also the field of police and protesting students. According to published reports on Tuesday, nine students and anti-war protesters at the University of Minnesota were arrested by the police after disrupting their protest camp.

University of Texas

In the South of America, a large group of students from the University of Texas in Austin on Wednesday dedicated a part of the lawn area to set up a tent to protest Israel’s war against Palestine. With the police attack, a number of students were arrested and their tents were dismantled.

The University of Texas at Dallas witnessed a similar action by angry students two nights ago.

Berkeley University

On the West Coast of the United States, students at the University of Berkeley in California pitched a tent and asked the university authorities to refrain from providing indirect financial aid to Israel, and at the same time, a Palestinian studies program at the university. to launch.

University of Southern California

At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, some protesters tried to set up a Palestinian tent before being arrested by local police forces, which a number of students gathered around to support the action. They gathered tents.

Humboldt Polytechnic University

A number of students of the California State Polytechnic University in Humboldt, along with another group of protesters, were confronted by the police after occupying a building of the university on Monday night, and then It was announced that the university campus will be closed until Thursday, and some classes have been changed from face-to-face to online.

Seattle

Hundreds of high school students and college students in the city of Seattle, Washington demonstrated on Tuesday to protest the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Other American universities

A large number of other American universities are still joining the huge uprising of students in this country against the crimes of Israel, according to various media reports, as of Friday morning, Northwestern University’s campus in Evanston, Illinois, as well as George Washington University has seen protesting students camping.

George Washington students, by publishing pictures of themselves camping on the campus of this university, announced on virtual networks that they do not plan to gather tents in support of Palestine any time soon.

Universities outside the US

After the rise of the anti-Israel movement in American universities, a gathering of pro-Palestinian students was held at Sciences Po Paris College in France. This university has a joint educational activity with Columbia University.

The protesting French students demanded the termination of this university’s relationship and cooperation with the universities and companies involved in Israel’s war against Gaza.

French students led by the students of Sorbonne University in Paris, the center of this country, launched a massive protest demonstration against Israel and asked the Macron government to support Israel in the war. Gaza should not support and take the responsibility of openly supporting the Palestinians.

University of Sydney, Australia

A number of students from the University of Sydney, Australia, also called on all the students of this university to join a student camp to stop the cooperation of this university with Israeli universities and arms manufacturers. participate.

Despite the strong opposition of their public opinion, the American government and Congress have widely supported Israel’s war and aggression against Palestine in different periods, especially in recent days.

On Thursday, April 30, the American government vetoed the resolution requesting the full membership of the Palestinian state in the United Nations. The United States vetoed this resolution while France, China, and Russia, the three permanent members of the Security Council, as well as two of America’s allies, Japan and South Korea, had voted in favor of the draft resolution.

Also, the US Senate recently approved a major financial support package for Israel including $17 billion, $4 billion of which will be used to complete Israel’s missile defense systems. .

It was after these actions that American students’ anger rose against Israel’s supporters, including in the universities of this country.

Al Jazeera news agency has published a map of American universities that have participated in the anti-Israel student movement in recent days, and this map is still being completed.

Now the roaring waves of student protests against Israel have spread almost all over the United States, and pro-Palestinian student demonstrations are the most important anti-Israel movement in American history in dozens of American and European universities. He strongly demanded the end of the war in Gaza, a ceasefire and the non-support of the White House rulers from the Zionists against the Palestinians.

While some media representatives and international observers predicted that student protest tents will cover more parts of America and Europe in the coming days.

Various media representatives reported that the protests led by American and European students were mostly peaceful and their slogans only contained the message “Free Palestine”, but the protesters They have faced widespread reaction from the American and Israeli authorities, including accusations of anti-Semitism, and for this reason they have been attacked and suppressed by the police forces.

According to media reports, hundreds of students have been arrested for supporting Palestine and participating in pitching tents against Israel in various American universities.

Weddy Armor, a law professor at the university, emphasized in a media interview that the American and Israeli authorities use anti-Semitic claims to silence and suppress students in order to prevent the spread of student protests. they will do, and the acts of violence and suppression of the protesters will intensify at the same time.