protests and student camps which manifest themselves in universities in the USA against war in Gaza And US funding to Israel continue its military work, has escalated sharply in recent days following mass arrests on campus New York Universitygive way new concentrations countrywide.

At the moment, according to the latest reports from the authorities, Protests spread to states Texas, New Mexico, California, Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois And Washington.

Early this Thursday morning, almost hundreds of students were detained in the last hours of University of Southern California (USC) during protests taking place on campus after Los Angeles police arrived Wednesday evening with protective equipment at the University of Southern California and initially arrested at least 35 people as they headed to clear an encampment in the center of campus, reports Los Angeles Times.

Members of the student community, They set up camp in Alumni Parkwhere the university’s commencement ceremony is scheduled to take place next month.

The USC camp, part of a growing number of demonstrations, was set up before dawn Wednesday and quickly grew as students, some wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and holding signs “Free Palestine” and “liberated zone”beat drums and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.

On the other hand, on Wednesday in the state Texasled by a Republican governor Greg Abbottat least one thirty students were arrested today at the University of Texas at Austin, when state police on horseback and in riot gear stormed a peaceful protest that concerned…About 200 students work here.

Some detainees were transferred to Travis County Jailto which Austin belongs.

The reaction of the government bodies of the conservative state was one of the strongest among the student protests that broke out in the United States against the war and had their epicenter at Columbia University (New York).

Abbott earlier on his official account Xshared a message in which he stated that students who participate at a peaceful pro-Palestinian protest in the southern state they should go to jail.

“Arrests are currently being made and will continue until the crowd disperses. These protesters should go to jail“Abbott said in a social media post to X.

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“Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Place. “Students who join hate-filled and anti-Semitic protests at any Texas public university or college must be expelled,” the governor warned.

Abbott is currently one of the Senior figures of the Republican Party and former President and current White House candidate, Donald Trumpsaid it was on his list possible vice presidents.

On the same Wednesday, as the protests gained widespread publicity in the media and news programs in the United States, US President Joe Bidenthrough her White House representative Karine Jean-Pierre. back right to freedom of expression However, during the student protests, the spokesman also referred to complaints of anti-Semitism and stated: “When we talk about hateful rhetoric, when we talk about violence, we need to report this“.

Last Sunday Biden condemned “blatant anti-Semitism” which, in his opinion, “has no place on university campuses.”

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These student protests monopolize much of the public and political debate in the United States, which includes Republicans and an important portion of Democrats. condemning demonstrations and accusing participants of anti-Semitism and even supporting the Islamist movement Hamas.

Own President of the House of Representativesrepublican Michael JohnsonThis Wednesday he went to Columbia University to meet with pro-Israel students and hold a press conference in which he denounced what he considered “anti-Semitic movement”.

(according to information from EFE)