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More than 400 people were detained. during the last nine days of pro-Palestinian protests at several US universities, led by Columbia University, more than a dozen of which
More than 400 people were detained. during the last nine days of pro-Palestinian protests at several US universities, led by Columbia University, more than a dozen of which were the scene of police intervention, even leading to arrests among faculty.
New York University tops list in number of arrests made The newspaper “New York Times, 108 arrests have been made since April 17 last year. Protest in the form of a mass camp, will remain standing for at least the next few hours, after the dean’s office decided to suspend its ultimatums to the participants, who had until midnight last Thursday-Friday to clear the place.
In a statement released just an hour before the ultimatum expired, university president Minouche Shafiq indicated that “The formal negotiation process is underway.with the organizers, which is “still ongoing.” “We have our requirements, they have theirs,” he added.
On the other coast of the country, the University of Southern California became the scene of protests, which led to at least 93 arrests on this campus. The University Center announced yesterday that it was suspending this year’s graduation ceremony due to tensions.
To these figures in New York and Los Angeles we must add oranother 108 arrests at Emerson College in Boston, 57 arrests at the University of Texas at Austin, 33 arrests at Indiana University, or nine in Minnesota plus an as yet unspecified number of arrests at NYU. Other prominent academic centers of the country, such as Harvard, Cornell, Berkeley or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also organized these protest camps.
Among the arrests that caused the greatest excitement, it should be noted that Noel McAffeeChairman of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta.
“Can you call the philosophy department and say that I have been arrested? I’m Noel McAffee the president” the academic says as she is handcuffed and dragged away by a state police officer, according to a video posted on social media.
WATCH: Among those arrested today was Noelle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department at Emory University.
I asked Emory for comment on this arrest, but no word yet.
This video was provided to us by a user #Emory Graduate student. You can hear it in this video. @ATLNewsFirst pic.twitter.com/86aJgb7NUX
— Patrick Quinn (@PatrickQuinnTV) April 25, 2024
The Biden administration has taken no action on the issue other than trusting Douglas Emhoff, the nation’s second gentleman and husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, to take action conversations with some representatives of the university management. However, sources close to the negotiations told the news portal Political that Emhoff, one of the most prominent Jews in the country, realized that some of these concentrations were hiding “violent, anti-Semitic and unacceptable” tone.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Robin Patterson limited herself to repeating the main lines of a brief statement issued last Monday by President Biden, who simultaneously rebuked both “anti-Semitic protests” and “To those who do not understand what is happening to the Palestinians.”
“Not on our behalf. “Genocide is not a Jewish value,” reads the banner on the right. Photo: Reuters
Patterson in this sense pointed out that “peaceful protest is part of the freedoms of Americans, and we have said many times that people have the right to protest, sometimes vigorously, against war, but hate speech, Anti-Semitic comments and attacks on people for who they are are disgusting.”
During protests at the University of Georgia, a woman who said she was a Holocaust survivor took a stand against murder and the death of children in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli attacks.
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“I survived the Holocaust. As a child, I experienced everything that children in Gaza experience every day. There is no justification for killing 15 thousand children. “I’m proud to be here with you,” she said into a megaphone in the middle of the camp. young people in support of Palestine.
“I survived the Holocaust. As a child, I experienced everything that a Gazan child experiences on a daily basis. There is no justification 4 for the murder of 15 thousand children. “I’m proud to be here with you.”
Amazing Jewish Solidarity at the GWU Camp #FreePalestine #Occupy4Gaza pic.twitter.com/m8doLYW0ci
— #StopCopCity (@ChuckModi1) April 25, 2024
Organization Jewish Voice for Peace (Jewish Voice for Peace), which fights for the liberation of Palestine and “Judaism beyond Zionism,” condemned on its social networks that police arrested hundreds of Jews during a protest in New York demanding this The United States stops arming Israel.
“Police detain hundreds of American Jews as they hold an emergency Passover Seder near @SenSchumer, demanding that the US stop arming and… funding the Israeli government while it commits genocide” The organization’s official account wrote to “X” on April 23.
HAPPENING NOW: Police arrest hundreds of American Jews from @jvplive @ifnotnoworg And @jfrejnyc when they hold an emergency Passover Seder in the Senate @SenSchumerOn the doorstep, the US is demanding that the US stop arming and funding the genocidal Israeli government. pic.twitter.com/cWYyMApBAN
—Jewish Voice for Peace (@jvplive) April 24, 2024
These protests in New York were organized by Jewish groups such as Jewish voice for peace, If not now And Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Republican White House candidate and former President Donald Trump accepted openly hostile line towards protesters and their concentrations, which he even compared as infinitely more dangerous than far-right marches 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“Charlottesville This is a small thing compared to the riots and protests against Israel. it’s happening all over the country,” Trump wrote this Wednesday on his social network “Pravda,” where he blamed Biden for these incidents for “sending the wrong signal all the time.”
Photo: Reuters
Trump concluded his message by accusing Biden of using xenophobic behavior towards all parties to the conflict in Gaza. “The fact is that he hates Israel and Jews. But the problem is that he hates the Palestinians even more and just doesn’t know what to do,” he added.
(With information from Europe Press)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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