As pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests spread on American college campuses in connection with the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, school authorities and the police began to disperse them forcefully.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) announced on the 25th (local time) that 93 protesters were arrested at the University of Southern California (USC).
The LAPD said, “There were no injuries during the arrest,” and warned, “At the request of the university, police will continue to be dispatched to the campus, and if unknown persons enter the r campus and congregating, they will be arrested for trespassing.”
Police use physical force to disperse… Students form a ‘human chain’ to resist
The Boston Police Department also arrested 108 protesters at Emerson University and reported that four police officers were injured due to student resistance. The students linked their arms around each other to form a ‘human chain’ or use umbrellas to resist the police.
Ohio State University also announced that students who refused to disperse were being arrested. The school explained, “According to school rules, camping and evening gatherings on campus are prohibited,” and “those who refuse to disperse despite multiple warnings will be charged with trespassing. “
At the University of Texas in Austin, police used cavalry and batons to disperse a rally and arrested 34 people At Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, police demolished a tent set up by protesters and arrested at least 17 people.
According to the local media, it is said that the police used pepper spray and pepper bullets in the process of stopping the protesters.
The Georgia branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement saying, “Police at Emory University used excessive force, tear gas, and rubber bullets,” and added, “The school and police must take full responsibility for the violence.” He condemned it. However, the police denied that they used tear gas.
Georgia State Representative Luwa Roman, a Palestinian Democrat, also said, “The police’s use of extreme riot control tactics, such as Tasers and gas guns, is a dangerous escalation of what was otherwise a peaceful and non-violent protest,” and he added, “We cannot stop this dangerous tyranny from continuing.” “I can’t leave him alone,” he said.
On the other hand, the Georgia Department of Justice said, “We are proud to support any college or university that takes steps to ensure the health and safety of its students,” and emphasized, “No one has the right to camp on campus than make. anti-Semitic threats.”
As graduation season approaches… universities are calling in the police.
The protest, which began at Columbia University in New York last week, has spread across the country to George Washington University, the University of Michigan, the University of Berkeley, Yale University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, clashing with the police.
The Associated Press reported, “As graduation season approaches, every university is calling in police to quickly end protests.”
USC, which was scheduled to hold a graduation ceremony early next month, announced it would skip the large-scale main stage event attended by students and their families and cancel Muslim valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s farewell speech at the graduation ceremony. However, this prompted a backlash from students who took part in the protest.
The school said in a statement, “We understand the disappointment of canceling the event,” but said individual graduation ceremonies, where students would go on stage and receive diplomas, would go ahead as planned.
CNN said, “In American universities, there are students from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, including Palestinians, Jews, and Arabs. They have diverse political and social views, including liberalism, heresy, progressivism, and absolutism, so it’s” the school responds. “We are having difficulties,” he analysed.
Meanwhile, tensions are rising as anti-Israel and anti-Semitism rallies are being held at Emory University and Columbia University on the 26th (local time) as a counterpoint to this event.
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