Emerson University: 108 people taken into custody, 4 police officers injured … 93 people were arrested from USC and 34 from the University of Texas.
Discussions underway at Columbia University… “Hurry to crack down on protesters before university graduation ceremonies” Hundreds of protesters were arrested by police as protests against American pro-Israel policies intensified on university campuses America in connection with the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas.
On university campuses across the United States, the police increased the level of suppression in an attempt to forcefully disperse the protesters, and students resisted fiercely, leading to physical fights and scuffles between the two sides.
In particular, the American media reported that the university is rushing to use the police to clean up the campus before next month’s graduation season.
◇ Clashes between student protesters and the police escalate from the eastern United States to the western United States.
According to the Boston Police Department in the eastern United States on the 25th (local time), 108 protesters were arrested by the police at Emerson University in Boston from the night before until early this morning, and four policemen were injured while the students opposes .
Video from WHDH, a local CNN-affiliated broadcaster, showed police armed with riot gear driving away demonstrators throughout the night to disperse them.
Several videos circulated online showed students linking arms and using umbrellas to resist the police, with the police pushing protesters to the ground.
Emerson University canceled all classes that day.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), 93 protesters were arrested at the University of Southern California (USC) the day before.
Police said no one was injured during the arrest at the university.
At the university’s request, the LAPD continued to station police on campus and warned that unidentified people entering the campus would be arrested for trespassing if they did not disperse.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced that 34 people had been arrested at 9 pm the previous day in connection with protests at the University of Texas at Austin.
Immediately after the protest began, the Texas State Police, including cavalry units and batons, arrived in large numbers on this campus and forcibly dispersed the students, using physical force in the process.
The media reported that a photographer for local media outlet Fox 7 was among those arrested here.
Local broadcast footage captured the reporter collapsing and bleeding at the scene, and police called emergency medical staff.
Dane Urquhart, a third-year student at the University of Texas, called the police entry and arrest of protesters an “overreaction” and told The Associated Press that if the police had not used force, “it would have remained peaceful.”
After the police left, about 300 protesters at the University of Texas sat on the lawn and chanted slogans in protest against the police and the school.
On the Humboldt Campus of the California State Polytechnic Institute, north of San Francisco, protesters have been staging a sit-in protest, setting up barricades inside the building for the third day.
The school has closed the campus since last weekend and held classes online.
At Harvard University, the school tried to block protests by locking most of the doors and blocking access to the plaza, but the day before, a rally was held against the ban on the activities of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, and protesters set up 14 of sit-in tents.
In Washington, DC, the capital of the United States and the center of politics, pro-Palestinian protests began in earnest and sit-ins began in tents on campus.
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According to the Washington Post (WP), around 30 protest tents were set up in the middle of the George Washington University campus this morning.
Protesters also demonstrated in the streets outside the campus, holding signs and chanting, “End the occupation (of the Gaza Strip) right now.”
At Georgetown University, another university in Washington DC, this morning, about 100 demonstrators gathered on the steps of Healy Hall on campus and chanted “Freedom for Palestine.”
Before that, on the 22nd, 133 protesters at New York University and 48 at Yale University were arrested by the police.
At Columbia University, the conflict between protesters and school authorities has intensified due to a police standoff since last week, and both sides extended the deadline for negotiations for another 48 hours the day before and are continuing negotiations .
About 60 tents remain at Columbia University, and security is being strictly maintained, with police setting up metal barricades around the campus and checking IDs.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson visited Columbia University the day before and demanded the resignation of Columbia University President Nemat Shafik, saying that if the protests were not stopped quickly, “it would be appropriate to use the National Guard.”
◇ Students demand, “Oppose war in Gaza, cut ties with Israel.”
Students argue that universities should distance themselves from companies that support Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, and in some cases, from Israel itself.
The content varies slightly from school to school, but in general, students will: ▲ Stop doing business with companies that supply arms to Israel ▲ Stop accepting donations from fund managers who receiving money from Israeli companies ▲ More transparent disclosure of money received from Israel ▲ They demand a pardon for students and faculty and staff who were disciplined or fired for protests.
A group of Harvard students and faculty called Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine said in a statement that Harvard would break with Israel and “reinvest resources into academic initiatives, communities, and culture in Palestine.” He said he hoped to do so.
It is known that pro-Palestinian protests are organized by student groups such as the Student Coalition for Justice in Palestine, on many campuses, and that students and faculty from various backgrounds, including Islam and Judaism, participate.
Protest organizers have denied violence, but some Jewish students have said they feel unsafe on campus and have been made uneasy by the protesters’ anti-Semitic chants.
US media reported that every school facing protests is increasing its reliance on public power ahead of graduation ceremonies, the biggest event of the year.
Most major universities in the United States hold graduation ceremonies in May.
The school’s position is that it is not possible to hold a graduation ceremony with protest tents filling the middle of the school.
The Associated Press reported, “As graduation ceremonies approach, all universities are quickly calling the police to quickly end the protests.”
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