Protests against Israel spread to Harvard, Yale and other elite varsities in United States
The pro-Palestinian students, a number of them Jews, are demanding that their schools condemn Israel’s assault on Gaza and divest from companies that sell weapons to Israel.
[The pro-Palestinian students, a number of them Jews, are demanding that their schools condemn Israel’s assault on Gaza and divest from companies that sell weapons to Israel.]
Washington/New York: The pro-Palestine and anti-war protest against the Israeli barbarism in Gaza Monday snowballed and spread to Harvard, Yale, MIT and other elite universities of the United States after use of force against students in Columbia University.
In-person classes in Columbia cancelled
According to Associated Press, Columbia cancelled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at Yale and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday April 22, 2024 as some of the most prestigious US universities sought to diffuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas.
In addition to the demonstrations at the Ivy League schools, pro-Palestinian encampments have sprouted up on other campuses, including the University of Michigan, Yale University, New York University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), news agency AP said.
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The pro-Palestinian students, a number of them Jews, are demanding that their schools condemn Israel’s assault on Gaza and divest from companies that sell weapons to Israel.
Apart from Columbia, as many as 45 students protesting against the Israeli war in Gaza were also arrested by the police at Yale University, according to Yale Daily News, the university’s paper.
The New York Police also arrested dozens of student and faculty protesters at New York University Monday night.
Meanwhile, a number of teaching faculty members Monday held a mass walkout against the Columbia University's decision to allow the police to arrest the students. The members of the teaching facility walked with the students, who were arrested and suspended last week, to show their support for these pro-Palestine protesters.
Faculty Members Join Protests
The teachers held solidarity protests as students again erected tents in the middle of campus on Monday April 22, 2024 after they were torn down days back when police arrested some 108 students of the Columbia University in New York.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden, who is being referred as “Genocide Joe” for his support to Israeli killing of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank instead of listening to the students’ legitimate demands called them “anti-semitic”.
Speaking about the pro-Palestine protests which have rocked elite university campuses, Joe Biden said:
"I condemn the anti-semitic protests. That's why I've set up a programme to deal with that. I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."
In a related development, Columbia University President Nemat Shafik called for a need for "a reset" in an open letter to the university community.
"Over the past days, there have been too many examples of intimidating and harassing behaviour on our campus," Shafik said.
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