WASHINGTON April 24. 2024 (Saba) - Protestors have escalated in several prestigious US universities to demand an end to the aggression against the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing for 200 days and an end to America’s arming of the Zionist enemy entity.
American media reported last night that pro-Palestinian students continued their sit-in at more universities across the United States, despite mass arrests in similar demonstrations at a number of East Coast universities in recent days.
Among the new camps, students at the University of California at Berkeley, a university famous for its student activism during the 1960s, set up tents in solidarity with protesters on other campuses.
Also in California, authorities closed the campus of Cal Poly Humboldt University, a public university in Arcata, California, after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a building on the campus.
On the University of Minnesota campus in St. Paul, police removed an encampment after the university administration asked them to take action, citing violations of university policy and the trespassing law.
Students supporting the Palestinian cause also continued their sit-in on the campus of Columbia University in New York, for the seventh day in a row, under pressure from the university administration and several political levels to end the sit-in.
Agence France-Presse quoted the American police as saying: 133 protesters against the Gaza war were arrested on the university campus.
Columbia University announced Monday that courses on campus will provide virtual options for students when possible, citing safety as their top priority.
University President Minouche Shafik said in a letter to students that she feels “deeply saddened” by what is happening on campus.
The new protests follow the arrest of more than 120 protesters on the New York University campus late Monday evening, according to a New York City Police spokesman.
The police said: The university authorities requested assistance, and that the protesters did not leave their places by the deadline set by the university.
New York University canceled student attendance the day before yesterday in an attempt to defuse tension on campus and fearing that Jewish students would face possible harassment.
Civil rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have raised free speech concerns about the arrests.
The New York Police also arrested a group of demonstrators from the Jewish Voices for Peace group after they gathered outside the home of Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, demanding an end to providing weapons to the entity.
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resource : Saba
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