Student protests in support of the Palestinian people are escalating at American universities

Protests in support of the Palestinian people and in rejection of Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip continued at American universities amid a large-scale arrest campaign by U.S. police, which hit hundreds of student protesters.

AFP reported that the movement of American students in support of the Palestinian people has expanded from Los Angeles to New York through Austin, Boston, Chicago and Atlanta, with protests held at a number of globally prestigious universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton.

In different parts of the United States, students are setting up tents at their universities to denounce the military support provided by Washington to the Israeli entity, and to protest at the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza. Riot police often forcibly evict students at the request of the university administration.

In the same context, the police yesterday morning expelled students from Emory University in Atlanta in the southern United States, and the Atlanta police acknowledged in a statement that they used irritating chemicals to disperse protesters.

Despite this, the University movement is expanding, and a new camp was set up early yesterday on the campus of George Washington University in the capital, where a demonstration is planned to be held there.

Videos on social media showed a statue of George Washington, the first American president, wrapped with the Palestinian flag around his forehead, and at the bottom of the statue, demonstrators set up about ten tents.

“Millions of Palestinians in Gaza sleep in the cold every night without food or shelter,” one protester in New York said.

As for the University of” UCS ” in Los Angeles, where 39 people were arrested yesterday, the university announced that it officially canceled the main graduation ceremony this year, under the pretext of new security measures.

Former Republican President Donald Trump’s adviser Jason Miller seized on the announcement to address students on the X-platform by saying that “under Joe Biden, your graduation ceremony will not be guaranteed.”

Amal Farhat