2024-05-02 21:35:01
In the McGill University of Montreal, Canada This weekend he experienced the first protest by propalestinoswhere protesters set up a camp, after tensions in more than 60 university centers in the United States, as well as a school in Paris, France.
The educational center stated that the camps were not permitted, as they “increase the potential for escalation and confrontation,” while in the Sciences Po Parisnearly 200 pro-Palestinian students blocked the prestigious university center, to demand a political reaction and academic in the face of Israeli military operations against Gazawhich they describe as “genocide.”
Yesterday, the White House insisted that the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that shook US universities in recent weeks, both public and private, must be peaceful, after the Police arrested some 275 people on four campuses over the weekend.
“We certainly respect the right to peaceful protests,” said the spokesperson for the National Security Council John Kirby.
But “we absolutely condemn the language of anti-Semitism that we have heard lately and we certainly condemn all the hate speech and threats of violence that are out there.”
The wave of demonstrations began in Columbia University, New Yorkbut it spread quickly.
Although peaceful protests prevail, the number of pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested for the Police, sometimes with tear gas and taser guns, it increased day by day.
University leaders are trying to find a better response, but they are caught between respect for freedom of expression and the need to contain violent slogans.
The activists, not all of them students, are calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza and they want universities to break ties with Israel.
Last October 7, Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing about 1,170 people, according to a tally of official Israeli figures. They also took about 250 people hostage. An estimated 129 remain in Gaza.
In retaliation, Israel launched an offensive that already numbers at least 34,454 people, mostly women and children, according to the Strip Ministry of Healthand maintained a siege that caused a humanitarian crisis.
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