With hundreds of detainees and students facing each other face to face with police riot police, Pro-Palestine protests and against the war in Gaza have become a expanding wave in US universitieswhere the camps multiply from campus to campus in a climate of growing tension.
Of The Angels (west) to NY (East of austin (south) to Boston (northeast), the American pro-Palestinian student movement grows every hour, after its start a week ago in the Columbia University, In New York.
The movement includes several of the most prestigious universities, such as Princeton and Harvard.
Student groups They set up tents on the campusesfor denounce US military support for Israel and the dramatic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
University protests expand in the US against the war in Gaza
On Wednesday afternoon, More than a hundred protesters were arrested near Emerson Collegea university of Boston. Thousands of miles away, agents on horseback arrested dozens of students from the University of Texas, in Austin.
Also, on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, where They arrested 93 people for invasion of private property.
The USC opted to leave the campus closed “until further notice” and canceled its main graduation ceremony this year, due to “new security measures.”
On the campus of the emory university, in Atlanta (southeast), the protesters were forcibly evicted by policewho even threw some of them to the ground to stop them, according to images from an AFP photographer.
The Atlanta police admitted to using “chemical irritants” in response to the “violence” of some of the protesters.
USA: protesters set up camp against the war in Gaza at the university in Los Angeles
Despite this, the protest movement increases. In college UCLA, in The Angels, more of 200 students set up camp with about 30 tents, surrounded by banners.
“For 201 days the world has witnessed in silence the murder by Israel of more than 30,000 Palestinians“protest organizers said in a statement.
“The Today UCLA joins students around the country who are demanding of their universities to separate themselves from companies that benefit from the occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine,” they added.
In austin, nearly 2,000 students demonstrated on the campus of the University of Texas on Thursdayshouting “Free Palestine”.
For Kit Belgium, a professor in Texas, the university must ensure “freedom of expression and free debate of ideas”. “And if the university can’t tolerate this, then it doesn’t deserve to be called that,” he told AFP.
Source: Ambito
