Student movements in America from the Vietnam War to Gaza/importance of the current movement

Mehr News, International Group: Now that more than 200 days have passed since the beginning of the crimes of the Zionist regime with More than 34,000 martyrs have passed, American students have taken a serious step towards realizing peace and ending the genocide in the Gaza Strip. These days, the wave of protests in the West, especially in American universities, has become the headlines of the world’s media.

Intensification of the anti-Israel wave in American universities; Requests and messages

In recent days, a large number of universities in America have seen anti-Zionist demonstrations, the most important of which are Harvard University, New York, Yale, Columbia, Massachusetts, Emory, Michigan, Brown, Humboldt Polytechnic, Berkeley, Southern California, Texas, Minnesota, etc.

Although some media have estimated the number of these universities to be more than 200, Al Jazeera news agency has a map of important American universities that have participated in the anti-Zionist student movement in recent days. published that, of course, this map is still being completed.

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The number of those arrested has also reached hundreds; The arrest of 108 students at Emerson College in Boston, 93 students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 34 students at the University of Texas at Austin, 100 students at Columbia University in New York and 45 students at the Yale is the last statistic announced from American universities.

The demands of American students in this movement are clear. They have asked the universities to refrain from investing the assets of large universities in arms manufacturing companies or other industries that support the Zionist regime’s war in Gaza and thus prevent “genocide”.

They also demand a ceasefire in the war of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip; The war that has become the biggest disaster in history by the West, centered on America. Just a few days ago, the US Senate approved a 95 billion dollar financial aid package for Ukraine, the Zionist regime, and Taiwan with a majority of votes, of which about 26 billion dollars was fake military aid to this regime.

Meanwhile, the American police and security forces are trying to continue the crimes of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip by suppressing students. have risen On the other hand, the simultaneous stance of US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicates that they are using a specific technique to divert public opinion and end the movement.

After Biden emphasized that “anti-Semitism is disgusting and has no place in America”, Netanyahu followed the same line of thinking. Of course, followed with more intensity and anger. Netanyahu, who ordered the Israeli army to kill more than 34,000 people in Gaza for nearly seven months, called the American students “anti-Semitic mobs” and claimed that they have “captured the country’s top universities and want to destroy Israel.” ».

After these harsh statements by Netanyahu, American Senator Bernie Sanders, while enumerating the number of martyrs in Gaza and the statistics of the Zionist regime’s crimes in this area, said: “Mr. Netanyahu, Do not insult the intelligence of the American people by trying to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your bigoted and racist administration. Do not use anti-Semitism to distract from the criminal indictment you are facing in Israeli courts. Facing charges in these courts is not anti-Semitism.”

In general, the police attack on students and their arrest in different American universities has caused many personalities and Effective international organizations should challenge freedom of expression in this claimant country. Like Amnesty International, which while condemning this violent behavior, emphasized the importance of the “right to protest” and brought in a statement: We ask American universities to support the rights of students in peaceful and safe demonstrations.

From the anti-Vietnam war student movement to protests against America’s intervention in the Middle East

Unprecedented demonstrations of students in American universities in condemning mass killings against Palestinians, reminds of the same spectrum’s opposition to the Vietnam War.

Among their common features is the common origin of these protest movements. The student protest against the American financial and military aid to the Zionist regime in the war against Gaza started about two weeks ago from Columbia University; A university that in the 1960s was the initiator of the wave of protests against the American war in Vietnam.

The students of the 1960s, due to the maturity of their idealism and commitment to issues beyond their personal interests, created changes that are still in use even after more than half a century of his works. America is visible.

Leonard Gordon, an American artist, mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Sociology that “the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, which seemed out of reach, made people’s attitude towards the war Change Vietnam and oppose the war instead of supporting it. The pressures that were applied to create diversity in the student body and racial and ethnic educational programs also played a role in the changes caused by the protests; Developments that changed the life of American society.”

The student movements in America, which started in the 1960s and gradually reached political maturity, during American military interventions in different parts of the world, especially in the Middle East, have shown themselves many times.

For example, over the last 2 decades, a large number of students from various American universities protested the presence and military interventions of the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. They have demonstrated.

Conclusion

Despite the fact that the American authorities are constantly talking about the freedom of protest and expression, they actually have a security and violent treatment with the protesters when they feel the slightest danger; Just as the peaceful demonstration of students, which was mostly accompanied by marches, slogans and setting up tents, was met with beatings and arrests by the American police.

The pro-Palestinian student movement, despite the repressive police security, showed that the Zionist regime shot both on the battlefield and in Propaganda is on the rocks. The Zionists, with the help of the powerful lobby “AIPAC, have spent billions of dollars for years to change the mentality of the Americans about the Zionist regime, but recent events have revealed the futility of these advertisements.

At this time when the student movement supporting Palestine, while expanding in America, also to other countries such as France and Canada

Understanding this Hebrew-Western conspiracy, international law professor “Wedy Armor” emphasizes that the American authorities and In order to prevent the spread of student protests, the Zionists will use anti-Semitic claims to silence and suppress the students, and the acts of violence and crushing of the protesters will also intensify at the same time.

American officials with the experience of the 1960s and the role of the anti-Vietnam war student movement, which finally forced America to accept and pushed Washington to end that war, Now they are also worried about repeating it in the case of Gaza.