2024-04-27 20:47:00
Boston, United States of America. About a hundred pro-Palestinian protesters were detained on Saturday morning on a campus in Boston, and another 69 in the state of Arizona, in the latest incident of a student movement that is spreading in the United States.
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Starting last week at Columbia University in New York, these new protests in support of the Palestinians and against Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip have taken hold on several American campuses, from California (west) to New England ( north-east), passing through the south of the country.
In Boston, “police arrested about 100 people,” according to Northeastern University authorities on the social network to prove their connection was arrested,” the establishment clarified.
He later said that the area of the campus where the protests took place was “completely secured” by 11:30 local time (3:30 pm GMT), “and all campus operations are back to normal.”
At Arizona State University (ASU), in the south, law enforcement “arrested 69 people after setting up an unauthorized camp,” the educational center said in a statement indicating that the “majority” were not ASU students. or members of staff.”
These people “will be charged with illegal interference,” he said.
In the past few days, the police have made mass arrests at universities, using tear gas and tasers to disperse protesters.
“Infusion”
“What started two days ago as a student protest has been infiltrated by professional organizers with no connection to Northeastern University,” criticized the university in Boston, a historic city in the northeastern United States that is also home to prestigious Harvard.
Students caught on campus will be subject to “disciplinary procedures” but “not legal action,” according to the newsletter.
For his part, the rector of Columbia, the heart of the New York movement, indicated that he had resigned from the police in New York (NYPD) evacuating the camp installed on his campus to “no more inflammation” make the case.
However, one of the leaders, Khymani James, was barred 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.
“Slang, signs, taunts, and social media posts by our own students threatening to ‘kill’ Jews are completely unacceptable, and Columbia students involved in such incidents will be held accountable, ” said the university.
Other campuses
In California, Humboldt Polytechnic University announced that it would close the campus until the end of the semester, and that work would continue remotely after several attempts this week to “break into multiple buildings.”
At the University of Pennsylvania, its president ordered a camp disbanded after saying there were “credible reports of harassing and intimidating behavior.”
Last October 7, Palestinian militants attacked Israel, killing about 1,170 people, 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 34,356 people, mostly women and children, according to the Palestinian territory’s Ministry of Health.
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