Anti-Israeli protests spread to the University of Berlin

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, the German newspaper Die Welt in an article referring to the protests Anti-Israel at Berlin’s Humboldt University and chanting of anti-Zionist slogans by dozens of protesters wrote: After the demonstrators rejected the offer of negotiation by the university administration, dozens of police officers began the evacuation operation. According to media reports, the demonstrators had earlier shouted at the university president and called him a “Zionist”.

What now threatens the participants of Friday’s anti-Israel rally is unclear. Police said early Saturday morning that about 150 people had registered for the protests. Personal details of 40 people were registered. According to Tagus Spiegel, the participants chanted the banned slogan “from the river to the sea”, which means the destruction of Israel. A video shows that the demonstrators chanted “Yallah, yallah, intifada” in the courtyard of the university.

The slogans of the demonstrators recognize only one aggressor: Israel. They repeatedly promote the idea that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and is deliberately trying to kill the people living in Gaza. We want them to condemn Germany’s complicity in the current genocide” and for universities to recognize the “Palestinian state”. expressed concern. “Unfortunately, anti-Semitic attitudes are widespread and can quickly escalate,” Klein told the Rheinische Post. However, it “hasn’t reached the proportions that can be sued in the United States”. Klein “examines with great concern the aggressive anti-Israeli spirit in German universities.” Klein added: “I keep hearing about totally unacceptable cases where Jewish students blame the actions of the Israeli army.” Jews are put in mass detention and only allowed to enter lecture halls or seminar rooms. As a result, many no longer have the courage to go to university They are not openly Jewish.

Betina Stark-Watzinger, Germany’s federal education minister, also called on universities to take ongoing measures against anti-Semitism, she told the Rheinische Post The past should be a reminder and a warning for us. The German official said that in very serious cases, students should be expelled /p>

The elite university of Sciences Po Paris also turned to online activities on Friday following the tensions over the solidarity marches in support of the Palestinians. As AFP reporters reported, most buildings at the university were closed and police also blocked an access road. Before that, about 100 students voted for a peaceful sit-in at the university.

In addition, six students at this university have gone on hunger strike to demand the formation of a working group to investigate the relationship between the universities of Sci-Po and Israel make sure. In a two-hour debate, one of the representatives of the university management stated that such an “examination” is ruled out.

Following the rejection of the students’ request to cut ties with Israeli universities, the management of the Paris University of Political Sciences (Ciencepo) was forced to close. Its main building in Paris was announced on Friday, May 3 (May 14) due to the continued protests.

Thus, while the protests against Israel de France have entered their second week, the university’s refusal Cianspo’s creation of a task force to examine relations with Israeli universities as a result of Thursday’s rally at Cianspo University has prompted some students across the French political science university’s campuses to continue protesting, as they have generally called for ties to be severed over the war. They are Gaza.

Since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, frequent pro-Palestinian rallies and tensions have taken place at Sciences Po. The police intervened several times. On Thursday evening, the security forces broke up a protest camp with about 300 students who had pitched tents. Pro-Palestinian marches spread mainly across the various Sciences Po campuses, but solidarity actions were also held at other universities across the country, such as Lille, Lyon and Saint-Etienne.

The Austrian newspaper Die Presse also wrote in an article: Since October 7, there have been heated discussions and events at local universities in Austria, ranging from peaceful discourse to openly anti-Semitic statements.

Alon Asked about events at several elite US universities, Ishai, president of the Austrian Jewish Students Association, said: “We are seeing how quickly anti-Semitism can emerge and accelerate on all campuses.”

Network Al-Jazeera also reported: “In parallel with the spread of student protests in the United States, students at the universities of Newcastle, Bristol, Warwick, Leeds, Sheffield and Hallam in England also started organizing rallies that included setting up tents inside and around university buildings.”

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