More than 700 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested after ten days of camping at more than 40 US universities and academic centers, following new arrests last Saturday and this morning in Boston, St. Louis, Arizona and Indiana.

The arrests of the last hours began with leaving the camp yesterday morning at Northeastern University in Boston, where 102 people were arrested, and continued at Washington University in St. Louis, Arizona State University and Indiana University.

Only at Saint Louis University More than 80 people were detained. in the midst of a police operation that led to the temporary closure of access to the campus. An independent candidate in the November presidential election was among those detained.Jill Stein.

Arizona police arrested 69 at State University, 23 more arrested in Indiana. Authorities hope to soon intervene at the University of Pennsylvania, where more than a hundred protesters are camped.

The Biden administration has taken no action on the matter. not to mention trusting Douglas Emhoff, the country’s second gentleman and husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, to begin negotiations with some of the university’s leadership.

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 They hide a “violent, anti-Semitic and unacceptable” message.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Robin Pattersonlimited himself to repeating the main lines of the brief statement made last Monday by President Biden, who simultaneously rebuked both “anti-Semitic protests” and also “to those who do not understand what is happening to the Palestinians.”

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Student associations in the Gaza Strip, for their part, welcomed the gesture of “solidarity” shown by the camp participants. “We welcome the examples of solidarity shown by these students facing arrest, police violence and detention,” the newspaper said in a statement. Felestinassociated with Hamas.

(Europe Press)