There are currently 38 US university campuses where student mobilizations are underway in support of Palestine and against the war on Gaza led by Israel. Universities are grappling with a complex management of the situation, some favor the stick, some try the carrot. Today the police dismantled the camp […]
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There are currently 38 US university campuses where they are underway student mobilizations in support of Palestine and against Israel’s war on Gaza. Universities are grappling with complex management of situation, those who favor the stick, those who try with the carrot. Today the police dismantled the protesters’ camp at Northeastern University in Boston and arrested 100 people. The intervention, the university explained, became necessary after that the protesters they launched into anti-Semitic attacks and insults that “crossed the university’s established red line”. According to some of the students who participated in the demonstration, the anti-Semitic slogans were shouted by pro-Israel “infiltrators”, precisely to push the university to intervene.
TO Denverin Colorado, were stopped by the police approximately 40 pro-Palestine activists which were located on the campus of the local university. They were taken away in handcuffs and will be judged for “illegal trespassing, in violation of the university rules which prohibit camping”. The 57 students arrested Wednesday during a protest at the University of Texas in Austin however, they will not be indicted. Travis County Prosecutor, where the university is located, has established that there are no sufficient grounds for indictment. On Friday, Columbia University, the epicenter of the demonstrations, banned the university campus Khymani James, one of the leaders of the pro-Palestinian protest, for saying in a video on Instagram last January that “Zionists don’t deserve to live”. The boy then apologized by writing on X that he had let go on the wave of the moment. The apologies, however, were of no avail.
On Friday evening, however, a “truce” was reached at the Parisian university of Sciences Po (Political science). The students agreed to interrupt the demonstrations in exchange for the start of an internal discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian issue and the decision not to sanction the university students who took part in the demonstration actions. Today in Tunis a group of pro-Palestinian activists broke in in the Italian stand at the Tunis Book Fairat a time when the Minister of Culture was present Gennaro Sangiulianochanting slogans and waving flags for the Palestinian peoplecausing the minister to walk away.
