Pro-Palestine Protests: Police Continue Crackdown As New Chaos Unfurl In Universities Of US (X image@mesa_b_s)
Police continues the crackdown on the students of universities in US who were demonstrating pro-Palestine protest. Reportedly, the police have arrested over 2000 pro-Palestine protestors. The police forcibly removed scores of pro-Palestinians protestors from different colleges across the country. New forms of chaos unfurled after helmeted police swarmed the encampment set up at University of California in Los Angles in the pre-dawn of Thursday. The police used flash bangs and riot gear to push through the students who linked arms to prevent the police from entering.
The LA police said over 210 people were arrested from University of California and hundreds of others were arrested from other universities overnight, as reported by Reuters. While the police was taking away a student protestor, he told the cameras that he is a student and “please don”t fail us”. Hours later, he was back on the campus and vowed that he would not stop fighting. “We will be back. We will be disrupting. We will be demanding divestment”, he said.
It all started to go haywire after the Columbia University ordered to arrest and suspended several of the students who were protesting for the cause Palestine at the “free speech zone” of the university campus. After the arrest, the protest spread like wildfire across the universities in New York, as dozens of other university students pledge their solidarity with the Columbia university students and the Palestinians in Gaza.
The student protestors were asking the university authorities and President Joe Biden, who is keen supporter of Israel, to divest from funding Israel. Biden broke his violence on Thursday and remarked that Americans have the right to protest but not to unleash violence. While speaking at the White House, he said, “destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It”s against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancelling of classes and graduations – none of this is a peaceful protest”.
The violent crackdown at the California University came a day after the violent clash between the protestors and counter-protestors. On Tuesday, while the pro-Palestine protestors, including some Jewish students were protesting at the Columbia University, a group masked counter-protestors launched a surprise assault on the students. Several students were injured badly as the attackers reportedly used tools like iron rods to beat up the protesting students. As per the CBS News, police fired gun inside Hamilton Hall of Columbia University during the night operation they led on Tuesday, as the student protestor renamed the Hall as “Hind Hall”.
It is aid that the University blocked food from entering the encampment.
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The US exposes its hypocrisy by detaining students at Columbia University and blocking food deliveries, despite boasting about freedoms.#IsraeliNewNazism#شمال_غزة_يجوع#رفح_تستغيث@Gaza7o pic.twitter.com/PGmwPiERSp— زهر الياسمين (@rhabahmd8) May 3, 2024
Israel”s ambassador to UN, Gilad Erdan, said that Hamas is hiding in the “elite universities” like Harvard and Columbia.
Wait, so is Israel”s Ambassador to UN implying Israel is going to bomb “Harvard, Columbia and many elite universities” as well? https://t.co/3Unzw9SLEy
— (Outer) Lunar Wilderness 🚀🌌 (@J_Silence) May 3, 2024
