Pro-Palestinian rallies continue across the US universities with no sign of slowing. Videos have emerged from different states showing police forcefully arresting hundreds of students and faculty members protesting the Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Publish dateTuesday 30 April 2024 - 11:48
Story Code : 289627
Afghan Voice Agency (AVA)-Monitoring: The protestors are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from companies enabling Israel’s months-long war on the strip.
More universities in the US have joined the protests against Israel's incessant bombardment of Gaza, seeking an end to US support for Israel.
More than 35,500 Palestinians have been killed so far in Israel's war on Gaza.
In Boston, police detained about 100 people while clearing a protest camp at Northeastern University. Social media posts show security forces in riot gear and officers loading tents set up by protestors onto the back of a truck.
Similar protest rallies were held in Bloomington in the Midwest, where the Indiana University Police Department arrested two dozen people, clearing a campus protest camp.
The Arizona State University Police Department also arrested 69 people for camping out in a pro-Palestine protest.
At least 80 people were arrested, including US presidential candidate Jill Stein and her campaign manager, at Washington University in St Louis.
The nationwide rallies were prompted by the arrest of about 100 pro-Palestinian activists at Colombia University in New York about one week ago.
Reports say hundreds of students have been arrested, suspended, put on probation and, in rare cases, expelled from colleges, including Yale University, the University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota, over the past ten days.
Momodou Taal was among four students whom Cornell University in New York state “temporarily suspended” on Saturday for setting up an encampment on its campus.
He told Al Jazeera the protesting students received threats and were subjected to doxing, which refers to the posting of the personal information of an individual on the internet without their consent.
He said such students received no protection from their school.
“We no longer have faith in the administration to be a place safe for Muslim students, for Arab students, for Palestinian students and by and large those students of colour and pro-Palestinian students,” Taal said.
College protests against the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza have spread to schools and universities in Canada, Europe and Australia too.
McGill University in Montreal saw Canada’s first campus protest camp in support of Palestine and against the Israeli onslaught on Gazans.
Protesters are demanding McGill and Concordia universities divest from funds implicated in the Zionist regime as well as cut ties with Zionist academic institutions.
Students from numerous countries, including the UK, France, and Austria have also join protests condemning the Israeli regime's war on Gaza./Mehr
avapress.com/vdcdxn0x5yt0j96.em2y.html
Tags
Top hits
