2024-04-29 00:13:50
The IS White House to insist on Sunday that the exhibition to shake the universities of United States of America In recent weeks they should have been peaceful, after the police arrested approximately 275 people on four campuses over the weekend.
“We certainly respect the right to peaceful protests”he told the ABC program “This Week”, spokesperson of the National Security Council John Kirby, but added the “absolute” criticisml” the language of anti-Semitism that we have heard recently and we certainly condemn the hate speech and threats of violence that are out there.
University protests against the war in Gaza raise tensions in the United States
The wave of demonstrations began at the National University of Ireland Colombia, in New York, but it has spread quickly across the country. Although peaceful protest prevails, the number of pro-Palestine demonstrators detained by the police, sometimes with tear gas and tasers, increases.
Total captures 100 at University Northeast, in Boston; 80 at the university of washington, in St. Louis; 72 in Arizona State Universityand 23 in Indiana.
University officials are trying to find a better answer, but are caught between respect for freedom of speech and the need for the protesters’ inflammatory and sometimes violent anti-Semitic slogans.
The activists behind the university protests, it is not clear to them students, ask to ceasefire in Gaza and they want universities to sever ties with Israel.
Con final exams in the following weeks, some universities have closed campuses and the work will continue and online classes.
Rectorate of Colombia, the core of the New York movement, revealed that after the resignation of the New York Police Department (NYPD) the evacuation of camp installed on his campus to “not inflame even more” the situation.
However, for one of the leaders, James Khymani, He was banned from entering the university campus. In a video released in January, James said that “Zionists do not deserve to live”. The young man later apologized.
“The chants, signs, taunts and posts on social media from our own students to They threaten to ‘kill’ Jews is completely unacceptable, and Columbia students involved in such incidents will be held accountable,” the university said.
In California, Humboldt Polytechnic University announced that it would close its headquarters until the end of the semesterand that the Work would continue remotely after several attempts this week to “break into different buildings.”
In University of Pennsylvania, students remain in the camp despite its rector ordering it to be disbanded after saying that “credible reports of harassing and intimidating behaviour.
Canada this saturday lasted for us the first protest for Palestine in the McGill University of Montreal, where protesters set up camp. The education center said the camping was not allowed, as it “increases the potential for escalation and confrontation.”
On October 7, militants of Hamas attacked Israel, and about 1,170 people were killed, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures. They also took about 250 people hostage. Israel estimates that 129 remain in Gaza, including 34 who have died.
In response, Israel launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip that has already killed at least 34,454 peoplemostly women and children, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian territory.
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