Flood of criticism to the president of Columbia University for suppressing the protesters

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the Board of Supervisors of the University of Columbia in the United States has charged the president of this university for pressuring and restricting the protests of the supporters of Palestine and suppressing the protesters of the Gaza war at the Ivy League school.

According to this report, Nemat Minusheh Shafiq, Due to the request for help from the New York police to collect the tents of the protestors of the war in Gaza and the policies of the Zionist regime towards the innocent people of this region, it has faced massive protests from many students, the university’s supervisory board and a supervisory board from outside the university.

Accordingly, the Senate of Columbia University issued a resolution after a two-hour meeting. and announced that Ms. Shafiq violated academic freedom and ignored the privacy policy and due process rights of students and university members by contacting the police and suppressing protests.

In this resolution, it is stated that this decision raises serious concerns about the tribute of the board of directors of this university to joint management and the issue of transparency in the decision-making process in this university. has created. The faculty members of this university and other employees, as well as some students, did not mention Ms. Shafiq in their resolution and refrained from using harsher language to condemn her.

It is also stated in this resolution that the supervisory board will carefully evaluate the corrective measures proposed by the university senate towards the protesters of the Gaza war.

This is while Ms. Shafiq, who is a member of the university senate So far, he has not responded to this resolution, but he did not participate in yesterday’s meeting either. University spokesperson Ben Pang also stated that the goals of the board of directors to restore peace to the university are similar to the goals of the university senate and are committed to continuous and constructive discussions.

Last week, during the protests of Columbia University students against the continuation of the war in Gaza and the genocide of the people of this region in the university campus, more than 100 people were arrested with the intervention of police forces. and the police collected the tents set up by the protesters in the main square of the Manhattan University campus, but the protesters quickly returned and set up their tents again.

Since then, hundreds of protesters have been arrested in various American universities from California to Boston and demanded the independence of their universities from the companies involved in the Israeli military industry. .

Last day also in continuation of the uprising of American universities against the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, hundreds of students in Various states were arrested by police forces.

NBC News reported a large crowd of protesters at the University of Texas at Austin a day after students were arrested.

CNN also reported that the American police arrested about 100 students at the University of Southern California and dozens more at the University of Texas in Austin. Two university professors were arrested at Emory University in Georgia.

At the same time, students of the University of Pennsylvania in support of the people of Gaza They set up tents and sit-ins around the university. The student newspaper “Daily Pennsylvania” wrote that the sit-in students demand the withdrawal of the university’s investments from occupied Palestine. .

Meanwhile, the prosecutor of the state of Georgia accused the students of “anti-Semitism” like other American officials and claimed: “Nobody has the legal right to close universities from It does not include camping, sit-ins, and anti-Semitic threats. >

Texas commander Greg Abbott also said yesterday All anti-Israeli students should be arrested. He also interpreted the anti-war protests in Gaza as “anti-Semitism”. /span>      

The American Civil Liberties Union in the state of Georgia also said in a statement: “Atlanta has always been a place for freedom of protest, but now we are witnessing repression against the constitution“.

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