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[VIDEOS] US and European universities erupt with Pro-Palestinian protests, but will this last?

HalBass9 said:
There is no hypocrisy in standing up against Genocide by American students.
There was no hypocrisy in protesting against segragation by American students.
There was no hypocrisy in protesting against Vietnam war by American students.
There was no Hypocrisy in protesting against Iraq war by American students.

Historically universities tried their best to dismantle and discredit protest with narrative and force but as documented historical fact, they were wrong to go against it and they've always failed.

Hypocrite are those who are trying to justify force against peaceful protest that was guaranteed by the first amendment of the US constitution.

Let's not try Anti-semite this and that, because that narrative isn't being bought anymore.

Happy to see that American, including vast majority of Jews and from all background are protesting against the killing of innocent and stringing few words to displaying their own hypocrisy.
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They have right to protest but they don’t have right to occupy campus and setup tents.

Camping laws are definitely going to be implemented in some states.

Irrespective this has always been part of American discourse and hopefully students once again will be on right side of history.
 
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Mockingbird said:
Huh, how does this make me anti-semetic and also that makes me wonder if you really understand anti-semitism? In fact I am saying that most people I work/live in my town support Israel’s stance openly or passively and they consider these pro-Palestine protests as anti-Semitic (which is also the stance most US universities are taking). There is a difference between freedom of speech & violent protests, which is what happened in Google office or now at Columbia University or even at my Alma-mater Stern. And coming back to your data, Jews supporting a political candidate is separate from taking a pro-Israel stand in the conflict. I could be pro-Congress and still back Article 370 or UCC implementation repeal in India. Not sure what you are going on about.
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I am not aware of your background but if I'll have to guess it then it would be Indian origin, a wild guess, I could be wrong.

Nelson Mandela who successfully fought against apartheid would disagree with you and whoever hold similar opinion.

It is understandable that it is your opinion but most would, particularly those who aren't from Indian background, would rather listen to Mandela then someone who named themselves after a bird.

There is nothing violent about student protesting against divestment.

I have quoted "Rishwat" by mistake.
 
JaDed said:
They have right to protest but they don’t have right to occupy campus and setup tents.

Camping laws are definitely going to be implemented in some states.

Irrespective this has always been part of American discourse and hopefully students once again will be on right side of history.
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Probably the same was said about previous protests.

Protests has to be disruptive when Genocide are taking place. Let's not pretend to be inconvenient by it when most of us are probably not even attending those universities.
 
HalBass9 said:
Probably the same was said about previous protests.

Protests has to be disruptive when Genocide are taking place. Let's not pretend to be inconvenient by it when most of us are probably not even attending those universities.
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True as well, previous protests though were directly related to American social discourse but again I doubt if they would had gotten any major publicity if they didn’t set up tents, similar to occupy wall street.

Hopefully America stops sending tax dollars to a country with free healthcare.
 
HalBass9 said:
There is no hypocrisy in standing up against Genocide by American students.
There was no hypocrisy in protesting against segragation by American students.
There was no hypocrisy in protesting against Vietnam war by American students.
There was no Hypocrisy in protesting against Iraq war by American students.

Historically universities tried their best to dismantle and discredit protest with narrative and force but as documented historical fact, they were wrong to go against it and they've always failed.

Hypocrite are those who are trying to justify force against peaceful protest that was guaranteed by the first amendment of the US constitution.

Let's not try Anti-semite this and that, because that narrative isn't being bought anymore.

Happy to see that American, including vast majority of Jews and from all background are protesting against the killing of innocent and stringing few words to displaying their own hypocrisy.
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In USA public schools get funded by tax money so it is my business to know if my money is not wasted on these things that I don’t really have a stake in.

For private institutions I have no problem or stake in what happens on campus. However I would assume a private organization has its own rules of decorum. Anyone with a sense of ownership of a business and meaningful responsibility would know that.

There is zilch these protestors will accomplish apart from a meaningless pat on the back from SM accounts or the really smart and intense ones may score a media or a political gig. For the rest this is a valuable waste of time and money and public nuisance . That’s how it works.
 
Local.Dada said:
In USA public schools get funded by tax money so it is my business to know if my money is not wasted on these things that I don’t really have a stake in.

For private institutions I have no problem or stake in what happens on campus. However I would assume a private organization has its own rules of decorum. Anyone with a sense of ownership of a business and meaningful responsibility would know that.

There is zilch these protestors will accomplish apart from a meaningless pat on the back from SM accounts or the really smart and intense ones may score a media or a political gig. For the rest this is a valuable waste of time and money and public nuisance . That’s how it works.
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Probably the same was said during previous protests by students in similar institutions but as history was recorded those protest did change things for the better, few war ended and apartheid ended.

You will pay IRS regardless of who protest. Protest is the fundamental right that is engraved in the constitution of the US, everyone has a right to protest whatever they wish to in USA. As a citizen of the US, my sense of ownership of the US bestowed upon me by the constitution of the US as first amendment supersede anything that you have attempted to rebuttal with your comment.

Probably one of the weakest argument, as weak as making this protest to appear as anti-semite by the main stream media in the US, that student should not protest in universities.

If you cared that much about tax dollars than you should be leading the protest as your tax dollars is paying for the free health care for someone one in the Middle east :)
 
Out of curiosity to those who have attempted to ridicule student protesting against Genocide with some of the most hypocrite and elementary comments, when was the last time massive student protests turned out be on the wrong side of the history, and the state using police violence against them turned out to be right?

I am perplexed why any non-Zionist immigrant would go against such protest and defend the institution that would suppressed protests that are against killing of innocent kids.
 
What do student protesters at US universities want?

Dozens of college campuses across the US have been taken over by students protesting against the war in Gaza.

More than a thousand demonstrators have been arrested as the universities struggle to deal with the encampments on college grounds just days before graduation ceremonies.

Why are students protesting over the war in Gaza?

Since the 7 October attack by Hamas and Israel's retaliatory assault, students have launched rallies, sit-ins, hunger strikes and, most recently, encampments against the war.

They are demanding that their schools, many with massive endowments, financially divest from Israel.

Divestment means to sell off stock in Israeli companies or otherwise to drop financial ties.

Student activists say that companies doing business in Israel or with Israeli organisations are complicit in its ongoing war on Gaza. And so are the colleges that invest in those companies.

University endowments fund everything from research labs to scholarship funds, mostly using returns from millions - and billions - of dollars in investments.

What happened at Columbia University?

Earlier this month, as Columbia president Minouche Shafik testified before Congress about antisemitism on campus, hundreds of students pitched tents at the New York City campus.

They demanded a ceasefire in Gaza and called on university leaders to divest from Israel.

The university said the protest violated school policies and the city's police department was called in to break up and clear the protest. More than 100 students were arrested for trespassing.

The student activists regrouped and this week the protest escalated as students took over a university building, Hamilton Hall.

The following evening, police cleared the building and the encampment, arresting about 100 people.

Where else are students protesting?

The escalating crisis at Columbia inspired similar encampments across the country, including:

  • Northeast region: George Washington; Brown; Yale; Harvard; Emerson; NYU; Georgetown; American; University of Maryland; Johns Hopkins; Tufts; Cornell; University of Pennsylvania; Princeton; Temple; Northeastern; MIT; The New School; University of Rochester; University of Pittsburgh
  • West Coast: California State Polytechnic, Humboldt; University of Southern California; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley; University of Washington
  • Midwest region: Northwestern; Washington University in St Louis; Indiana University; University of Michigan; Ohio State; University of Minnesota; Miami University; University of Ohio; Columbia College Chicago; University of Chicago
  • The South: Emory; Vanderbilt; University of North Carolina, Charlotte; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kennesaw State; Florida State; Virginia Tech; University of Georgia, Athens
  • Southwest: University of Texas at Austin; Rice; Arizona State
Pro-Palestinian protesters have also gathered over the past week on university campuses in Australia, Canada, France, Italy and the UK.

How have universities handled the protests?

Some are negotiating with student activists while others are issuing ultimatums that have led to police being called in.

The latest round of arrests on Monday were made in Texas, Utah and Virginia.

But agreement was reached in Boston between Northwestern University and protesters which limits the size of the encampment.

National politicians have called on colleges to do more, highlighting reports of antisemitism at some of these protests.

Jewish students at several campuses have told the BBC about incidents that made them feel uncomfortable or fearful.

These ranged from chants and signs supporting Hamas, a proscribed terror group, to physical altercations and perceived threats.

Has protesting worked?

Pro-Palestinian campus groups have for years called on their institutions to support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, as a means of pushing back against Israel.

No US university has ever committed to the BDS framework, although some have cut specific financial ties in the past.

While divestment would have a negligible impact, if any, on the war in Gaza, protesters say it would shed light on those who profit from war and help build awareness of their issue.

Why are students recalling protests over Vietnam war?

Activists at Columbia and elsewhere have highlighted the protests at the end of the 1960s against US involvement in the Vietnam War.

Thousands were arrested and there were violent clashes with police.

Four students in Ohio were killed in 1970 when the National Guard opened fire.

Their deaths triggered a nationwide student strike and hundreds of universities closed.

BBC
 
Local.Dada said:
Depends on what your definition is. A company owned by a powerful Jewish person or family or a company that caters to a certain demographic like maybe selling religious items, books etc related to Jewish religion/ culture. I am giving this answer on common sense and if I want to find out examples i would use Google. Common sense and Google could have avoided that question and potentially a few more I see repeated again and again just to get a reaction.
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Sorry but this is as equally as anti-semitic
 
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Tear gas used at UCLA, says campus reporter​

A campus newspaper reporter was "tear-gassed" while covering the clashes at UCLA, according to Dylan Winward, who works for the Daily Bruin paper himself.

Pro-Israel counter-protesters, who showed up from around 22:00 local time (05:00 GMT), threw objects including "fireworks, a scooter, water bottles, and tear gas", Winward told BBC News a short time ago.

LA police have confirmed their officers have been deployed to campus after university administrators earlier declared an "unlawful assembly".

Winward said the police presence had been requested hours before, but had only just arrived.

Meanwhile, a university-appointed security team has withdrawn, Winward says, because they believed they could no longer "safely hold" the buffer zone.

It is not clear what caused Tuesday night's outbreak in violence, but there are reports that the counter-protesters knocked over a barrier that formed a "buffer zone" between the two groups.

BBC
 

Attacks on pro-Palestinian encampment 'relentless', says student​


After clashes between pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA and a rival group supporting Israel, one activist described the attacks faced by the former group as "relentless".

"Tonight they escalated to a whole new level, they started inciting violence," she told BBC News earlier.

The student, who spoke anonymously, said her cohort had faced "Zionist aggression every single night".

She said she was "thankfully physically safe", but "a lot of my peers are not physically safe".

UCLA's vice-chancellor earlier said there had been "horrific" acts of violence, and the police had been called in.

BBC
 
Protesters had renamed the historic building "Hind's Hall" in honor of a slain 6-year-old girl from Gaza. The police action against the protesters happened on the 56th anniversary of a similar move to quash an occupation of Hamilton Hall by students protesting the Vietnam War.

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Biden Government is in a dilemma. They are walking a tight rope to keep both Jews and Far left happy.
Jews are big time funders for Dem party and Far left is a sure shot vote bank for the upcoming elections. He cannot make either of them angry.
These protests are very similar to the BLM protests during George Floyd episode. People wearing face masks to hide their identity. For them it is not about the issue on hand. Their primary purpose is about Hate for America, White man and Capitalism. They take every opportunity to hurt American interests and cause chaos in the country. Biden Government knows who is doing this. But they will not take any action as they are also his vote bank for the upcoming elections.

These protests are not flash protests. They are properly planned and need funding to mobilize so many people who are going to sit at one place all day to protest. Thousands and millions of dollars are needed to continue protests for days along. The funding comes from Billionaires like George Soros, CCP and other socialist and communist far left sympathizers.

The Universities humanities departments are infested with socialist and communist Woke professors. They teach students to hate America and what it stands for. Democrat Government knows this, but does nothing. These people are useful idiots.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Biden Government is in a dilemma. They are walking a tight rope to keep both Jews and Far left happy.
Jews are big time funders for Dem party and Far left is a sure shot vote bank for the upcoming elections. He cannot make either of them angry.
These protests are very similar to the BLM protests during George Floyd episode. People wearing face masks to hide their identity. For them it is not about the issue on hand. Their primary purpose is about Hate for America, White man and Capitalism. They take every opportunity to hurt American interests and cause chaos in the country. Biden Government knows who is doing this. But they will not take any action as they are also his vote bank for the upcoming elections.

These protests are not flash protests. They are properly planned and need funding to mobilize so many people who are going to sit at one place all day to protest. Thousands and millions of dollars are needed to continue protests for days along. The funding comes from Billionaires like George Soros, CCP and other socialist and communist far left sympathizers.

The Universities humanities departments are infested with socialist and communist Woke professors. They teach students to hate America and what it stands for. Democrat Government knows this, but does nothing. These people are useful idiots.
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Open your door and step out the may be you will understand but let's not try to discredit some of the smartest students in some of the most prestigious universities with immature talking points.

In the past, students from the same institution had forced their government to end war and apartheid.
 
NYC Mayor Adams: ‘Outside agitators’ were part of campus protests

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in an appearance on on “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday that police had identified organizations and individuals who weren’t university students, but professional agitators.

“Once I became aware of the outside agitators who were part of this operation, as Columbia mentioned in their letter and their request with the New York City Police Department, it was clear we had to take appropriate actions when our intelligence division identified those who were professionals, well trained,” Adams said.

Adams and the NYPD made similar claims before the arrests that the protest had been co-opted by outside agitators, though did not provide specific evidence to back up that contention. While people involved in the Columbia demonstrations acknowledge that some people not part of the college community have participated, they forcefully dispute the idea that outsiders were driving or unduly influencing the protests.

Adams pointed to protesters breaking into Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, saying some of the tactics and methods have been used across the globe.

“And we understood how really dangerous this situation had become,” Adams said, noting they made sure that a minimum amount of force was used to “eradicate the problem” at City University of New York and Columbia.

When there’s an analysis of those arrested, Adams said a substantial number of them won’t be City University of New York or Columbia students.

Adams said he understands the power of protests, but they have to make sure they don’t turn violent. Breaking into Hamilton Hall was not protesting, “that was committing a crime,” he said.

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NYC Mayor Adams: 'Outside agitators' were part of campus protests

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in an appearance on on “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday that police had identified organizations and individuals who weren’t university students, but professional agitators.
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HalBass9 said:
Open your door and step out the may be you will understand but let's not try to discredit some of the smartest students in some of the most prestigious universities with immature talking points.

In the past, students from the same institution had forced their government to end war and apartheid.
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Majority cannot even point where Israel and Gaza are on the map. Smart for sure.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Biden Government is in a dilemma. They are walking a tight rope to keep both Jews and Far left happy.
Jews are big time funders for Dem party and Far left is a sure shot vote bank for the upcoming elections. He cannot make either of them angry.
These protests are very similar to the BLM protests during George Floyd episode. People wearing face masks to hide their identity. For them it is not about the issue on hand. Their primary purpose is about Hate for America, White man and Capitalism. They take every opportunity to hurt American interests and cause chaos in the country. Biden Government knows who is doing this. But they will not take any action as they are also his vote bank for the upcoming elections.

These protests are not flash protests. They are properly planned and need funding to mobilize so many people who are going to sit at one place all day to protest. Thousands and millions of dollars are needed to continue protests for days along. The funding comes from Billionaires like George Soros, CCP and other socialist and communist far left sympathizers.

The Universities humanities departments are infested with socialist and communist Woke professors. They teach students to hate America and what it stands for. Democrat Government knows this, but does nothing. These people are useful idiots.
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These same criticisms were levelled at Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s. They're all communists, they hate America, they hate the white man etc. Infact MLK had a disapproval rating of 75% in the months prior to his assassination. Americans now speak like there was never any opposition to civil rights protests.

Protests are often unpopular and disruptive, but it's their constitutional right to protest the killings in Gaza or against racism as much as it's the right of people to wave the Israeli flag should they wish.

Instead of insulting them, why not constructively engage with them on the issues they raise ?
 
Markhor said:
These same criticisms were levelled at Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s. They're all communists, they hate America, they hate the white man etc. Infact MLK had a disapproval rating of 75% in the months prior to his assassination. Americans now speak like there was never any opposition to civil rights protests.

Protests are often unpopular and disruptive, but it's their constitutional right to protest the killings in Gaza or against racism as much as it's the right of people to wave the Israeli flag should they wish.

Instead of insulting them, why not constructively engage with them on the issues they raise ?
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Protesting is one of fundamental rights. But it should not cross the limits which disrupts public life for days on. There is a limit to everything.

We can now see that the protests have become violent too. Who is going to pay for the damages and the time lost by all the students who do not want anything to do with these protests?

The Pink haired, nose ring people just need an issue to protest. They are professional protestors.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Majority cannot even point where Israel and Gaza are on the map. Smart for sure.
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HUh? any evidence regarding that claim?

Even what you suggest is true then why is it relevant in order to stand up against the killing of innocent kids, unless and of course you believe those kids will grow up to be terrorist?
 
Local.Dada said:
Do you know what that word means?
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Saying that Jewish businessmen wield influence and control things is a sick anti Semitic trope straight out of the nazi playbook.

Very large numbers of the protestors were Jewish too.
 
The US will never be able to point to protests across the world in the same way again.

Every time they mention Tianamen square etc all of the world will mention how they beat up kids simply asking for killing to stop.

They have lost all moral standing in the world after their crazy defence of Israel.
 
HalBass9 said:
HUh? any evidence regarding that claim?

Even what you suggest is true then why is it relevant in order to stand up against the killing of innocent kids, unless and of course you believe those kids will grow up to be terrorist?
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It is relevant because they are professional protestors. Many organizations that are very unpopular among Muslims like BLM, LGBTQ+ are part of these protests. Without Woke left fueling these protests, they would never go on for this long.

Universities like Columbia, NYSU, UT Austin etc receive heavy funding from countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and even countries like Pakistan. Its all inter related.

"Between 2014 and 2019, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates donated at least US$4.4 billion to numerous US colleges. Together with donations from other Middle East nations, over the five years in question, more than US$5 billion was donated to American universities from authoritarian Middle Eastern nations."

www.universityworldnews.com

US universities’ foreign funders: How much do we know?

As the United States government probes allegations of antisemitism in some of the country’s top universities, the Network Contagion Research Institu...
www.universityworldnews.com
 
DeadlyVenom said:
The US will never be able to point to protests across the world in the same way again.

Every time they mention Tianamen square etc all of the world will mention how they beat up kids simply asking for killing to stop.

They have lost all moral standing in the world after their crazy defence of Israel.
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Police did not use force until the students have forcefully occupied buildings stopping education.

It is silly to compare Tianamen square with what is happening in US. Chinese military opened fire on students there killing hundreds. Here the snowflake protestors at US Universities were crying like they got shot just because Police were putting handcuffs on the protestors.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Police did not use force until the students have forcefully occupied buildings stopping education.

It is silly to compare Tianamen square with what is happening in US. Chinese military opened fire on students there killing hundreds. Here the snowflake protestors at US Universities were crying like they got shot just because Police were putting handcuffs on the protestors.
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It is a brutal suppression of protest.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Protesting is one of fundamental rights. But it should not cross the limits which disrupts public life for days on. There is a limit to everything.

We can now see that the protests have become violent too. Who is going to pay for the damages and the time lost by all the students who do not want anything to do with these protests?

The Pink haired, nose ring people just need an issue to protest. They are professional protestors.
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LOL, you are trying to hard to discredit a legit protest.

You have used main stream media both liberal and conservative talking points to discredit it.

For example: "BLM", "anti-semite", "who is going to pay", "have become violent', "hamas supporter", "rape supporter", "Israel child murderer".

All of them excuses have past their due dates. Vast majority of the population aren't buying it unless one is Colonial supporter or Indian origin.

Every and each time, students from these institution were right, and they managed to end apartheid and few wars.

"On April 30th, 1968, Universities Calls in 1,000 police to end Demonstration As nearly 700 are arrested and 100 Injured" - This was the headline of Columbia Spectator.

It was a legit protest back then and it is now. Protest aren't suppose to make one convenient, it has to be convenient, and these student understand it far better than the excuse you have provided in an failed attempt to discredit.
 
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DeadlyVenom said:
It is a brutal suppression of protest.
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So handcuffing and taking the protestors off the campus is brutal?:facepalm:

Brutal is when police resort to Lathi charge and shoot at sight irrespective of the situation. Using words like brutal does not make your argument legit.
 
HalBass9 said:
LOL, you are trying to hard to discredit a legit protest.

You have used main stream media both liberal and conservative talking points to discredit it.

For example: "BLM", "anti-semite", "who is going to pay", "have become violent', "hamas supporter", "rape supporter", "Israel child murderer".

All of them excuses have past their due dates. Vast majority of the population aren't buying it unless one is Colonial supporter or Indian origin.

Every and each time, students from these institution were right, and they managed to end apartheid and few wars.

"On April 30th, 1968, Universities Calls in 1,000 police to end Demonstration As nearly 700 are arrested and 100 Injured" - This was the headline of Columbia Spectator.

It was a legit protest back then and it is now. Protest aren't suppose to make one convenient, it has to be convenient, and these student understand it far better than the excuse you have provided in an failed attempt to discredit.
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You can protest all you want outside of the university. When you are in the University, you have to follow certain rules. Your right to protest should not encroach on someone's right to education. Police used extra force when the protestors resorted to vandalism. Breaking doors, glass windows etc.
 
Champ_Pal said:
It is relevant because they are professional protestors. Many organizations that are very unpopular among Muslims like BLM, LGBTQ+ are part of these protests. Without Woke left fueling these protests, they would never go on for this long.

Universities like Columbia, NYSU, UT Austin etc receive heavy funding from countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and even countries like Pakistan. Its all inter related.

"Between 2014 and 2019, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates donated at least US$4.4 billion to numerous US colleges. Together with donations from other Middle East nations, over the five years in question, more than US$5 billion was donated to American universities from authoritarian Middle Eastern nations."

www.universityworldnews.com

US universities’ foreign funders: How much do we know?

As the United States government probes allegations of antisemitism in some of the country’s top universities, the Network Contagion Research Institu...
www.universityworldnews.com
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Please highlight the correlation you are trying to derive from the posted article.

Thanks
 
Champ_Pal said:
You can protest all you want outside of the university. When you are in the University, you have to follow certain rules. Your right to protest should not encroach on someone's right to education. Police used extra force when the protestors resorted to vandalism. Breaking doors, glass windows etc.
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When my tax dollars and tuition is being sent for free healthcare and kill innocent kids then I will protest in front of anyone's yard, their backyard, sideyard, leftyard, rightyard or any where. That is what it took to end apartheid and wars.

Anyone who disagree can take their sensitivities and rules anywhere they feel sensitive and apply that rule.
 

UCLA professor detained during police crackdown: Student newspaper​


UCLA’s student newspaper, the Daily Bruin, has reported that at least one university professor was detained alongside students when police broke up the pro-Palestine encampment.

The paper cited another professor who was in the encampment as saying that students had also been “visibly injured” by law enforcement, who fired stun grenades and “violently dragged” some of them off of the site.

“Faculty are standing to bear witness to this unnecessary horror”, Graeme Blair, associate professor of political science, told the Daily Bruin via text message.

Al Jazeera
 

Israeli president smears US protesters as anti-Semitic​


Isaac Herzog has claimed US universities where pro-Palestine protests are taking place have been “contaminated by hatred and anti-Semitism”.

The Israeli president provided no evidence that such views are driving the protests, whose leaders, moved by the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, say they are calling for a ceasefire in the war-battered territory and divestment from Israel.

Over the last week, police have arrested hundreds of peaceful protesters at the demonstrations, now spanning dozens of US universities, most recently at UCLA as we have been reporting.

Al Jazeera
 
DeadlyVenom said:
The US will never be able to point to protests across the world in the same way again.

Every time they mention Tianamen square etc all of the world will mention how they beat up kids simply asking for killing to stop.

They have lost all moral standing in the world after their crazy defence of Israel.
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Most know the Yanks are hypocrites but this confirms to those who weren’t sure .

America is owned by Zionism , they fund most of these clowns parading as politicians, they have compromised many others too ie Epstein.

Now the US is attacking the ICC against any arrest warrants against Israelis lol

Good news is this nation is on the brink of irreversible decline . The irony is Israel is actively pursuing this as they believe they are the chosen ones.
 

Turkey’s Erdogan criticizes US crackdown on pro-Palestinian college protests​


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waded into the debate over US college campus protests on Thursday, saying authorities were displaying “cruelty” in clamping down on pro-Palestinian students and academics.

Demonstrations have spread on campuses across the United States over Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, prompting police crackdowns and arrests at some venues such as Columbia University in New York.

“Conscientious students and academics including anti-Zionist Jews at some prestigious American universities are protesting the massacre (in Gaza),” Erdogan told an event in Ankara.

“These people are being subjected to violence, cruelty, suffering, and even torture for saying the massacre has to stop,” he said, adding that university staff were being “sacked and lynched” for supporting the Palestinians.

Turkey, a NATO ally of the United States, has sharply criticized Israel’s assault on Gaza and what it calls the unconditional support it receives from Western countries.

The US is a top supplier of military aid to Israel and has shielded the country from critical United Nations votes.

“The limits of Western democracy are drawn by Israel’s interests,” Erdogan said. “Whatever infringes on Israel’s interests is anti-democratic, antisemitic for them.”

More than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza during Israel’s nearly seven-month military offensive, Palestinian health officials say, after Hamas militants killed some 1,200 people and took 253 hostages during an October 7 assault on southern Israel, according to Israeli tallies.

 
Every country will have a field day pointing out US and Canada’s hypocrisy on protests.
 

1,900 arrests at school protests nationwide​


So far, there have been 1,900 arrests at college protests across the country, according to an NBC News tally.

The arrests came from at least 60 colleges and institutions participating in protests and encampments in solidarity with the Palestinian cause and calling for their schools to divest from Israel.

Some of the latest numbers include:

  • Twelve arrested at the University of New Hampshire last night — 10 of them students and two not affiliated with the university, all charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing.
  • Four arrested at Yale last night — two students and two non-students, charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
  • Twenty-nine arrested at Stony Brook University shortly after midnight — 22 students, two faculty members and five others for "violating various laws"
NBC News
 

Biden: 'There’s the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos.'​


Biden addressed the protests that have roiled U.S. college campuses in recent weeks, saying: "Let me be clear: peaceful protest in America. Violent protest is not protected — peaceful protest is. It's against the law when violence occurs."

"There's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos," the president added.

He noted that destroying property, vandalism, breaking windows, shutting down campuses and forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation are not peaceful protests.

"Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law," he said. "Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education," he continued.

"There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students. There’s no place for hate speech or violence of any kind whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans," Biden said. "It’s simply wrong. There’s no place for racism in America."

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Riot police dismantle peaceful pro-Palestinian protest at UCLA​

After a tense stand-off at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), hundreds of police in riot gear launched a pre-dawn raid on an encampment filled with about 400 peaceful protesters demonstrating against Israel’s war on Gaza, forcing them to disperse with flash-bangs and batons.

The operation to clear the encampment advanced after police issued a second order to disperse or face arrest just before 1am local time on Thursday. California Highway Patrol officers gained partial entry to the encampment of tents, which was protected by a barricade of plywood palettes, but they were forced to beat a temporary retreat after protesters resisted arrest.

The police numbers were bolstered with busloads of reinforcements arriving near Royce Hall, an auditorium located outside the encampment.

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UCLA: Police clear out pro-Palestinian encampment and detain protesters

Hundreds of police officers in riot gear have cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Police moved in before dawn on Thursday after ordering more than 1,000 protesters to leave the area.

The officers tore down makeshift barriers and set off flash bangs and flares as they dismantled the site, which was erected on campus a week ago.

More than 100 demonstrators were reportedly detained in the raid.

Student-organised pro-Palestinian rallies and encampments, which began at Columbia University in New York City on 17 April, have spread to more than two dozen states and at least six other countries.

Police assistance has been requested in many instances, and violence has erupted on some campuses. Total arrests across the country over the past fortnight now exceed 1,000.


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Biden says 'order must prevail' after UCLA Gaza protest camp cleared

US President Joe Biden has urged pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses to uphold the rule of law.

"We are a civil society, and order must prevail," Mr Biden said from the White House, in his first direct remarks about a wave of student unrest.

Police have detained more than 2,000 people nationwide in the past fortnight at college rallies and protest camps.

That includes 209 arrests early on Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Hundreds of officers in riot gear moved on to UCLA's main campus before dawn and cleared its pro-Palestinian camp.

They set off flash bangs and flares, loaded demonstrators on to police buses, and tore down the makeshift barriers and tents that had been erected on campus a week ago.

In a statement, UCLA called the camp "both unlawful and a breach of policy. It led to unsafe conditions on our campus and it damaged our ability to carry out our mission."

"Demonstrators directly interfered with instruction by blocking students' pathways to classrooms," it added, while their clashes with pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators "put too many [students] in harm's way".

Addressing the nationwide protests hours later, Mr Biden said: "We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent. But neither are we a lawless country.

"There's the right to protest but not the right to cause chaos. People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked."

The Uncommitted National Movement, a group of Arab-American voters opposed to Mr Biden's re-election campaign this year, accused him of "smearing" anti-war protesters.

"It's clear Biden isn't listening to young people nationwide, or to the over half a million uncommitted voters asking him to change course. We hope he hears us before it's too late," leader Abbas Alawieh said.

The campus protests in support of Gaza have now spread to nearly 140 colleges in at least 45 states, according to a BBC tally, and at least six other countries.

Demonstrators, who have been calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza war, are also demanding academic institutions financially divest from Israel and companies who stand to make money from the conflict.

But many colleges have called in the police, with violence erupting on some campuses, as well as rising reports of antisemitic harassment against Jewish students.

The tensions at UCLA's main Westwood campus erupted on Tuesday night when a masked pro-Israeli group breached the tent camp on Dickson Plaza and attacked campers with bats, tear gas and other items.

Police appeared to move slowly and were criticised by students, observers and some political leaders for their response.

After regaining control of the area on Wednesday, law enforcement created a tight security cordon.

Administrators had already declared "an unlawful assembly" and, early on Thursday morning, officers moved in.

As police breached the perimeter, some demonstrators could be seen locking arms and using their plywood barriers as makeshift shields, while others donned hard hats and seemed to arm themselves with umbrellas.

Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, said she had been at an "incident command post" alongside law enforcement leaders at the campus throughout the operation.

"Harassment, vandalism and violence have no place at UCLA or anywhere in our city," she wrote in a statement.

Kenza, a UCLA student involved with the protests (she did not provide her last name), told the BBC the encampment had been "completely peaceful".

"It's absolutely ridiculous that we would be deemed as a threat to civil society when the reality is we have been harassed for the past week," she said.

Campus operations will be limited on Thursday and Friday, with all classes moving to remote instruction, UCLA said.

A handful of institutions - including Northwestern, Brown, the University of Minnesota and the University of Vermont - have reached agreements with protesters over divestment matters.

But arrests have been made in the past 24 hours at Yale, Dartmouth, Stony Brook, Portland State, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Biden administration sends letter to colleges on protests after delayed response​


The Biden administration is ramping up its direct response to the college protests over the Israel-Hamas war, with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona sending a letter Friday to college and university presidents condemning “abhorrent” incidents of antisemitism on campus and highlighting available resources.

Cardona’s letter, sent via email, comes one day after President Joe Biden addressed the issue head-on Thursday, offering law-and-order-centric remarks at the White House stressing the need to peacefully protest without causing chaos.

In recent days, he wrote, there has been a “sharp rise in reports of antisemitism targeting Jewish students on some college campuses.”

He cited reports from Jewish students of being physically assaulted or harassed while walking on campus, antisemitic statements, including that Jewish students should “go back to Poland,” verbal abuse, and swastikas found on dorm room doors.

Cardona told the higher education leaders that his department is “eager to provide further resources, training, technical assistance,” linking to a list of strategies and other federal campus safety resources, including guides from the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the Department of Justice.

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Paris police clear Sciences Po University of protesters​


French police have cleared the main hall of Sciences Po University in Paris of pro-Palestinian protesters.

The evacuation was carried out calmly by riot police with protestors shouting “shame!” and “free Palestine!”

Dozens of students had began a sit-in inside the university late Thursday. The university closed its campus Friday, a school spokesman said.

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Florida universities prepare for commencement

Universities across Florida are preparing for weekend commencement celebrations, which kick off Friday, after the State University System of Florida's chancellor commended school presidents on their handling of a "difficult academic year to ensure the safety of our Jewish students and faculty."

"While we are witnessing a descent into chaos all over the country, under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida has maintained law and order," Ray Rodrigues, Chancellor of the State University System of Florida wrote in a letter to State University System Presidents.

"As the academic year concludes, we must protect the integrity of our commencement ceremonies and ensure the safety of our students. No commencement ceremony should be canceled, or substantively modified, as a result of unruly demonstrators."

Florida State University will hold six ceremonies across two days, with the University of Florida holding its on Friday night.

"You are authorized to take any steps necessary to ensure the safety of all attendees during the ceremony," Rodrigues said. "Please promptly inform faculty, staff, students, and guests that protests, discrimination or harassment at commencement ceremonies will not be tolerated."

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I hope Democrats realized that it is impossible to overstate how dangerous Biden has become for whatever remaining freedom left in the US. He is setting authoritarian precedents that have Trump and the GOP salivating. Biden has opened the fascist floodgates.
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Problem is Trump also

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Iran slams US for cracking down on pro-Palestine student protests

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has condemned US authorities for violently suppressing the protests of pro-Palestinian students across the country, Al Jazeera reports.

He wrote on X: “The move of the US government authorities to distort the truth and describe genuine student and academic anger and protests as anti-semitism, in order to justify and use of violent suppression tools to silence the peaceful protests and gatherings of pro-Palestine students, does not diminish the ugliness of their actions.

“A significant number of Jewish people, including Jewish students, have declared their disgust with the hateful crimes of the Zionist regime and the US government’s shameful support for the regime.”

He added that the “mask of hypocrisy” has been removed “from the faces of the false defenders of freedom of speech and human rights”.

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A police officer accidentally fired his gun on the Columbia University campus while clearing pro-Palestinian protesters from a building on Tuesday, the New York Police Department said.

No one was injured, and the bullet was found in a nearby wall.

The matter is being investigated, city officials said.

Police arrested 112 protesters this week after college leaders sought help clearing the Manhattan campus - a move that fractured the school community.

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Problem is Trump also

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True, but most want to punish Biden and ready to accept and tolerate Trump for next 4 years.

Things will only change in Palestine when Liberal Democrats has majority within the Democrat Party in 20 to 25 years.
 
Universities brace for disruption at graduations by Gaza war protesters

The next chapter of campus protests may soon begin, with universities across the US preparing for possible disruptions at graduation ceremonies.

Four universities rocked by pro-Palestinian protests will hold graduations this weekend.

Many others, including Columbia University, have scheduled ceremonies throughout the month and in June.

Universities are working to enhance security while protesters contemplate walkouts and other possible actions.

Protesters set up camps and staged campus demonstrations to call on their universities to cut ties with Israel over the war in Gaza.

Many colleges responded by calling police, leading to thousands of arrests.

There have been demonstrations at nearly 140 institutions across 45 states and Washington DC since the protests started at Columbia University last month, according to a BBC tally.

Student protesters have so far, for the most part, been quiet about plans for disruptions at graduations, which are known as commencements in the US.

At Indiana University, however, IU Divest and the Palestine Solidarity Committee - whose camp at Indiana University was cleared by police twice in recent weeks - have called for a walk-out at graduation events.

"Make your pro-Palestine stance clear at the 'Liberated Zone' instead," reads a post on Instagram, referencing a protest area at the university's campus in Bloomington. "Join us in wearing your keffiyeh along with your cap and gown."

The walk-out will be timed to happen when Pamela Whitten, the university president, begins to speak.

Ms Whitten faced a no-confidence vote earlier in April from faculty members concerned about academic freedom after the cancellation of a Palestinian artist's exhibition and the suspension of a faculty member who served as a sponsor for a pro-Palestinian student group.

Faculty members have also discussed holding "a silent protest" outside the commencement to make their displeasure known without interfering with the event, according to two sources who asked to remain anonymous.

The University of Michigan, Ohio State University and the University of Connecticut - all of which have experienced demonstrations over the last two weeks - have graduations on 4 and 5 May.

University of Michigan officials have announced plans for designated protest areas, where banners and flags will be prohibited and protesters will be subject to security screenings.

The commencement will be watched over by volunteers who will "respond to disruptions, beginning with warnings", according to the university's website.

Alifa Chowdhury, of the Tahrir Coalition protest group, declined to comment on whether any disruptions were planned. She said the university had "completely ignored" offers to negotiate.

"It makes sense that they have been implementing strategies and training staff to make sure protests aren't happening," she said.

Nearly 200 miles (320km) to the south, Ohio State University President Ted Carter has vowed to protect students' right to free speech while at the same time enforcing rules that bar "intentional disruptions of university events, classes, exams or programming, including commencement".

Heba Latif, a Palestinian-American student and co-president of the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), would not say whether any protests were planned for the 5 May commencement ceremony.

Graduation is scheduled for 15 May at Columbia. Police entered the campus earlier this week to clear a student occupation and are due to remain on campus throughout the commencement season.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian international student at Columbia, told the BBC that the protest movement would continue regardless.

"Students have been protesting since October," said Mr Khalil.

"They've received disciplinary notices from the university, and suspensions, probation, and that has not stopped anyone.

"I don't see how bringing in the police will stop this movement."

Protesters at Columbia did not reply when asked repeatedly if any disruptions were planned.

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Pro-Palestinian protests in New York after university encampment shut down

Up to a thousand pro-Palestinian protestors have marched through New York following the shut down of one of the last student protest encampments at New York University.

Earlier in the day, officials had asked for the police’s assistance to disperse the encampments, with some students arrested.

Protesters returned to the same spot, and marched to Washington Square Park to join hundreds of Jewish people who were marking Shabbat and advocating for a ceasefire.

The BBC's Nomia Iqbal is in New York and has been following developments.

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Houthis offer education to students suspended in US protest crackdown​


Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israeli protests.

Students have rallied or set up tents at dozens of campuses in the United States in recent days to protest against Israel's war in Gaza, now in its seventh month.

Demonstrators have called on President Joe Biden, who has supported Israel's right to defend itself, to do more to stop the bloodshed in Gaza and demanded schools divest from companies that support Israel's government.

Many of the schools, including Ivy League Columbia University in New York City, have called in police to quell the protests.

"We are serious about welcoming students that have been suspended from U.S. universities for supporting Palestinians," an official at Sanaa University, which is run by the Houthis, told Reuters. "We are fighting this battle with Palestine in every way we can."

Sanaa University had issued a statement applauding the "humanitarian" position of the students in the United States and said they could continue their studies in Yemen.

"The board of the university condemns what academics and students of U.S. and European universities are being subjected to, suppression of freedom of expression," the board of the university said in a statement, which included an email address for any students wanting to take up their offer.

The U.S. and Britain returned the Houthi militia to a list of terrorist groups this year as their attacks on vessels in and around the Red Sea hurt global economies.

The Houthi's offer of an education for U.S. students sparked a wave of sarcasm by ordinary Yemenis on social media. One social media user posted a photograph of two Westerners chewing Yemen's widely-used narcotic leaf Qat. He described the scene as American students during their fifth year at Sanaa University.

 
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Biden Government is in a dilemma. They are walking a tight rope to keep both Jews and Far left happy.
Jews are big time funders for Dem party and Far left is a sure shot vote bank for the upcoming elections. He cannot make either of them angry.
These protests are very similar to the BLM protests during George Floyd episode. People wearing face masks to hide their identity. For them it is not about the issue on hand. Their primary purpose is about Hate for America, White man and Capitalism. They take every opportunity to hurt American interests and cause chaos in the country. Biden Government knows who is doing this. But they will not take any action as they are also his vote bank for the upcoming elections.

These protests are not flash protests. They are properly planned and need funding to mobilize so many people who are going to sit at one place all day to protest. Thousands and millions of dollars are needed to continue protests for days along. The funding comes from Billionaires like George Soros, CCP and other socialist and communist far left sympathizers.

The Universities humanities departments are infested with socialist and communist Woke professors. They teach students to hate America and what it stands for. Democrat Government knows this, but does nothing. These people are useful idiots.
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So some of the smartest students in the world are protesting for a valid cause, yet a nobody lecturing them . Lol
 

Universities brace for disruption at graduations by Gaza war protesters​


The next chapter of campus protests may soon begin, with universities across the US preparing for possible disruptions at graduation ceremonies.

Four universities rocked by pro-Palestinian protests will hold graduations this weekend.

Many others, including Columbia University, have scheduled ceremonies throughout the month and in June.

Universities are working to enhance security while protesters contemplate walkouts and other possible actions.

Protesters set up camps and staged campus demonstrations to call on their universities to cut ties with Israel over the war in Gaza.

Many colleges responded by calling police, leading to thousands of arrests.

There have been demonstrations at nearly 140 institutions across 45 states and Washington DC since the protests started at Columbia University last month, according to a BBC tally.

Student protesters have so far, for the most part, been quiet about plans for disruptions at graduations, which are known as commencements in the US.

At Indiana University, however, IU Divest and the Palestine Solidarity Committee - whose camp at Indiana University was cleared by police twice in recent weeks - have called for a walk-out at graduation events.

"Make your pro-Palestine stance clear at the 'Liberated Zone' instead," reads a post on Instagram, referencing a protest area at the university's campus in Bloomington. "Join us in wearing your keffiyeh along with your cap and gown."

The walk-out will be timed to happen when Pamela Whitten, the university president, begins to speak.

Ms Whitten faced a no-confidence vote earlier in April from faculty members concerned about academic freedom after the cancellation of a Palestinian artist's exhibition and the suspension of a faculty member who served as a sponsor for a pro-Palestinian student group.

Faculty members have also discussed holding "a silent protest" outside the commencement to make their displeasure known without interfering with the event, according to two sources who asked to remain anonymous.

The University of Michigan, Ohio State University and the University of Connecticut - all of which have experienced demonstrations over the last two weeks - have graduations on 4 and 5 May.

University of Michigan officials have announced plans for designated protest areas, where banners and flags will be prohibited and protesters will be subject to security screenings.

The commencement will be watched over by volunteers who will "respond to disruptions, beginning with warnings", according to the university's website.

Alifa Chowdhury, of the Tahrir Coalition protest group, declined to comment on whether any disruptions were planned. She said the university had "completely ignored" offers to negotiate.

"It makes sense that they have been implementing strategies and training staff to make sure protests aren't happening," she said.

Nearly 200 miles (320km) to the south, Ohio State University President Ted Carter has vowed to protect students' right to free speech while at the same time enforcing rules that bar "intentional disruptions of university events, classes, exams or programming, including commencement".

Heba Latif, a Palestinian-American student and co-president of the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), would not say whether any protests were planned for the 5 May commencement ceremony.

Graduation is scheduled for 15 May at Columbia. Police entered the campus earlier this week to clear a student occupation and are due to remain on campus throughout the commencement season.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian international student at Columbia, told the BBC that the protest movement would continue regardless.

"Students have been protesting since October," said Mr Khalil.

"They've received disciplinary notices from the university, and suspensions, probation, and that has not stopped anyone.

"I don't see how bringing in the police will stop this movement."

Protesters at Columbia did not reply when asked repeatedly if any disruptions were planned.

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‘We won’t stop’: How Columbia’s students etched a new Gaza protest legacy​

New York, United States — At about 10pm on Monday, April 29, I thought I would call it a night.

My student journalist colleagues and I had stayed late into the night on Columbia University’s campus the previous couple of days, reporting on a story that had grabbed the world’s attention: the pro-Palestine protests and encampment that had inspired similar campaigns in schools across the United States and globally.

As I slung my camera bag on my back and began to leave campus, walking by the camp, I got a tip from a passing protester: “I would stick around till about midnight,” they said. “Maybe go home first, though.”

Got it. I went home to charge backup camera batteries and grab spare memory cards before leaving for campus again.

Back at Columbia, it appeared that more than one of us had gotten the tip. Crowds of student journalists, all of us with matching paper badges and blue tape on our clothes, waited next to the encampment for whatever was to come. Our journalism faculty stood by our side, as they had been doing throughout.

Protesters grouped into “platoons”, and while we didn’t know what to expect, we kept eyes on different corners.

We split up to make sure different spots were covered; a few of us stuck by Pulitzer Hall, the home of Columbia Journalism School, where a small number of protesters had convened, while some others stood ready with cameras and recorders by the encampment.

That is when it all began. Campers began walking their tents off the lawn. One group began chanting. Another at the opposite end of the lawn sang protest hymns. I was with a small cohort of journalists who followed the tents to another small lawn, a clever decoy – whether intended or not – that meant many of us missed the moment, at the opposite end of campus, when protesters entered Hamilton Hall.

By the time we had run over, tens of student protesters had gathered to link arms outside the building, which their predecessors had taken over in 1968 to protest against the Vietnam War, and in 1985 to demand that Columbia divest from firms tied to apartheid South Africa.

Two of my colleagues were in the middle of the scrum, up against the doors watching two counter-protesters attempt to stop the occupation before being pushed out. Protesters rushed metal picnic tables, wooden chairs, trash cans, and planters to the doors where they were zip-tied together, effectively forming a barricade.

Two masked individuals appeared from a second-floor balcony to cheers and applause. They unfurled a hand-painted sign, “Hind’s Hall”, a reference to the six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed with her family in their car in January as they tried to escape Israel’s military assault in Gaza.

That night, I fell asleep on the floor of a sixth-storey classroom in Pulitzer Hall to the echoes of song, one lone voice amplified through a megaphone, coming from Hamilton Hall: “This joy that I have, the world didn’t give it to me … the world can’t take it away.”

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Inside a movement that took over a university building and lost its encampment within 24 hours – yet refuses to die.
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Students in other countries are putting their careers on life for Gaza and in Pakistan, musical concerts are being arranged. This shows the mentality here that they don't really care about them.

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Students in Ireland and Switzerland join Gaza protest wave

Students at Trinity College Dublin and Lausanne University in Switzerland have staged occupations to protest against Israel's war in Gaza, joining a wave of demonstrations sweeping U.S. campuses.

In Dublin, students built an encampment on Friday that forced the university to restrict campus access on Saturday and close the Book of Kells exhibition, one of Ireland's top tourist attractions.

The camp was set up after the students' union said it had been fined 214,000 euros ($230,000) by the university for losses caused by protests in recent months, not exclusively over Gaza. The protesters were demanding that Trinity cut academic ties with Israel and divest from companies with ties to Israel.

Students' union president Laszlo Molnarfia posted a photograph of benches piled up at the entrance to the building housing the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks in about 800 AD.

Trinity College said it had restricted access to students, staff and residents to ensure safety, and that the exhibition would be closed on Saturday.

More than 34,600 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s seven-month-old assault on the Gaza Strip, say health officials in the Hamas-ruled enclave. The war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and abducting 252 others, of whom 133 are believed to remain in captivity in Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

Pro-Palestinian protests have also been held at universities in Australia and Canada.

In Lausanne, around 100 students occupied a building to back demands including an end to scientific cooperation with Israel.

"Palestinians have been dying for over 200 days, but we're not being heard," one protester told Swiss television on Saturday.

"Now there's a global movement to get governments to take action, but it's not happening. That's why we want to get universities involved now."

The university said the occupation could continue until Monday provided it did not disrupt work on campus.

"We universities are not called upon to take political stands," the university's rector, Frederic Herman, told RTS radio. Last week, the head of Trinity College, Linda Doyle, said it was reviewing  its investments but that it was for individual academics to decide whether to work with Israeli institutions.

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Mayor Eric Adams defends NYPD response to campus protests​


New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday defended the police crackdown on campus protests there, which have become the epicenter of demonstrations seen around the country.

"When those protests reach the point of violence," Adams told ABC News "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl, "we have to ensure that we use a minimum amount of force to terminate what is perceived to be a threat."

Adams added that the police intervention resulted from days of communication between the police and school officials.

"We knew we had to get permission unless there's imminent threat to life, or severe threat to property," he said, adding, "We were not going to overstep our legal authority."

Pressed by Karl about criticism, including from some other Democrats, that the response to protesters was disproportionate given that they were largely nonviolent, Adams said, "One has the right to have his or her opinion, and I respect that. ... And I have an obligation and responsibility to ensure the city is safe."

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Pro-Palestinian encampments set up at universities of Oxford and Cambridge​


Pro-Palestinian encampments have been set up at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England, as students there call on leadership to sever ties to Israel. Photos posted on social media show several tents erected outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, a tourist attraction located on the campus.

Campaign group, Oxford Action for Palestine, said they set up the encampment at 4 a.m. on Monday (11 p.m. ET Sunday) and had deliberately chosen the museum, which they said symbolizes the "relationship that Oxford has to colonial projects." At the entrance to the encampment, a banner shows the list of demands from student protesters which include: the disclosure of university finances, the divestment from Israeli businesses, an overhaul of the university's investment policy and support towards Palestinian-led rebuilding of educational facilities in Gaza.

In the statement, the group said they "stand in solidarity" with students across the globe "from CUNY to UCLA, Trinity College to Sciences Po."

Students at Cambridge also set up an encampment on Monday on the lawn outside the university’s King’s College in the center of the city. The encampment is being organized by the group "Cambridge for Palestine" which is demanding the university “discloses and divests from its financial and professional support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

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Columbia cancels universitywide commencement ceremony after weeks of protests on campus​


Columbia will replace its universitywide commencement ceremony on May 15 with "smaller-scale, school-based celebrations," university officials announced Monday, after weeks of pro-Palestinian and counterprotests on campus.

The Ivy League school said the decision was made after discussions with student leaders. Security concerns were a main reason behind the decision, a university official told NBC News.

"Our students emphasized that these smaller-scale, school-based celebrations are most meaningful to them and their families," the university said Monday. "They are eager to cross the stage to applause and family pride and hear from their school’s invited guest speakers. As a result, we will focus our resources on those school ceremonies and on keeping them safe, respectful, and running smoothly."

Pro-Palestinian protests sprouted on campus April 17 when students pitched about 50 tents while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza and insisting the university divest from companies that they say could be profiting from the war.

On the evening of April 30, New York City police officers clad in riot gear arrived on campus at the request of university administrators and forced their way into the barricaded Hamilton Hall, which protesters had taken over and renamed Hind’s Hall, after a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in Gaza. The encampment was cleared and more than 100 people were arrested.

The arrests have shaken confidence in the university’s president Minouche Shafik among some students and faculty at Columbia. In a letter to the New York Police Department asking for its assistance to clear Hamilton Hall, the university president said the occupation there “left us no choice.”

In its request for police assistance, Columbia asked the NYPD to stay on campus until at least May 17, two days after commencement.

A source at the university previously said Columbia was rethinking its commencement ceremony. After a meeting with top university leaders Friday, two members of student government said administrators indicated they are not sure they can hold a commencement ceremony on the main Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan because of security concerns.

Protests similar to the one seen in Columbia quickly appeared at college campuses across the country, concerning administrations about their commencement ceremonies as well.

On Saturday, students waved Palestinian flags during the University of Michigan's commencement. Banners in the sky displayed messages such as “DIVEST FROM ISRAEL NOW! FREE PALESTINE!” and “WE STAND WITH ISRAEL JEWISH LIVES MATTER.”

In a statement issued following commencement, University of Michigan assistant vice president for public affairs Colleen Mastony said approximately 75 protesters staged a demonstration at the beginning of the program by walking up to the main aisle and chanting. They were escorted by public safety personnel to the rear of the stadium, where they stayed until commencement ended. There were no arrests, Mastony said in a statement following commencement.

Last month, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles said it was canceling its main commencement ceremony, scheduled for May 10, that was set to include a keynote address from alumnus Jon M. Chu, the director of “Crazy Rich Asians,” and a presentation of honorary degrees to tennis star Billie Jean King and others.

The university previously canceled a commencement speech by a Muslim valedictorian following controversy over her social media posts about Israel’s war in Gaza. But USC said it would still host individual school commencement ceremonies and other related events.

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Pro-Palestinian student protesters break through police fencing at MIT

Pro-Palestinian protesters who had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there, as Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests.

Sam Ihns, a graduate student at MIT studying mechanical engineering and a member of MIT Jews for a Ceasefire, said the group had been at the encampment for the past two weeks and that they were calling for an end to the killing of thousands of people in Gaza.

“Specifically, our encampment is protesting MIT’s direct research ties to the Israeli Ministry of Defense,” he said.

Protesters also sat in the middle of Massachusetts Avenue, blocking the street during rush hour in the Boston area.

The demonstrations at Columbia have roiled its campus and officials said on Monday that while it would not hold its main ceremony, students would be able to celebrate at a series of smaller, school-based ceremonies this week and next.

The decision comes as universities around the country wrangle with how to handle commencements for students whose high school graduations were derailed by Covid-19 in 2020. Another campus shaken by protests, Emory University, announced on Monday that it would move its commencement from its Atlanta campus to a suburban arena. Others, including the University of Michigan, Indiana University and Northeastern University, have pulled off ceremonies with few disruptions.



Columbia’s decision to cancel its main ceremony, scheduled for 15 May, saves its president, Minouche Shafik, from having to deliver a commencement address in the same part of campus where police dismantled a protest encampment last week. The Ivy League school in upper Manhattan said it had made the decision after discussions with students.

“Our students emphasized that these smaller-scale, school-based celebrations are most meaningful to them and their families,” officials said.

Most of the ceremonies that had been scheduled for the south lawn of the main campus, where encampments were taken down last week, will take place about five miles north at Columbia’s sports complex, officials said.

Speakers at some of Columbia’s still-scheduled graduation ceremonies include the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames and Dr Monica Bertagnolli, director of the National Institutes of Health.

Columbia had already canceled in-person classes. More than 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia’s green or occupied an academic building were arrested in recent weeks.

Similar encampments sprouted up elsewhere as universities struggled with where to draw the line between allowing free expression while maintaining safe and inclusive campuses.

On Monday evening, a group of students at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence used tables and chairs to barricade the entrance to the second floor of a building on campus, preventing police from getting in, according to a report from the Brown Daily Herald, a student publication at nearby Brown University.

The protest was organized by Risd Students for Justice in Palestine, who said they would not leave the building until president Crystal Williams met their demands for fiscal transparency around investments, “holistic” divestment from groups involved with “sustaining Israel apartheid”, establishing a student oversight committee for investments and publicly condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide.

The University of Southern California earlier canceled its main graduation ceremony. Students abandoned their camp at USC on Sunday after being surrounded by police and threatened with arrest.

Other universities have held graduation ceremonies with beefed-up security. The University of Michigan’s ceremony was interrupted by chanting a few times on Saturday. In Boston on Sunday, some students waved small Palestinian or Israeli flags at Northeastern University’s commencement in Fenway Park.

At the University of California, San Diego, police cleared an encampment and arrested more than 64 people, including 40 students, on Monday.

The University of California, Los Angeles, moved all classes online for the entire week due to continuing disruptions following the dismantling of an encampment last week. The university police force reported 44 arrests on Monday but there were no specific details, the UCLA spokesperson Eddie North-Hager said in an email to the Associated Press.

Schools are trying various tactics from appeasement to threats of disciplinary action to get protesters to take down encampments or move to campus areas where demonstrations would be less intrusive.

A group of faculty and staff members at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill asked the administration for amnesty for any students who were arrested and suspended during recent protests. UNC Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine said in a media advisory that it would deliver a letter on behalf of more than 500 faculty who support the student activists.

Other universities took a different approach.

Harvard University’s interim president, Alan Garber, warned students that those participating in a pro-Palestinian encampment in Harvard Yard could face “involuntary leave”. That means they would not be allowed on campus, could lose their student housing and might not be able to take exams, Garber said.

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Protests against Israel's war in Gaza rattle colleges across the US​

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday it’s “unfortunate” that Columbia University students will experience a scaled-back commencement after demonstrators occupied a campus building that resulted in several people arrested.

“It is unfortunate that a small group of people went too far and cost their classmates this important event," she said.

Quoting remarks from President Joe Biden last week, Jean-Pierre told reporters during the White House press briefing, “destroying property is not a peaceful protest — it's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes, and graduations — none of this is a peaceful protest.”

Earlier Monday, CNN reported Columbia planned to cancel the university-wide commencement ceremony planned for next week and will be holding smaller events instead due in part to security concerns, per a university official. The university official told CNN that security concerns were one of the main reasons for the decision not to hold a large commencement ceremony.

Jean-Pierre told reporters that President Joe Biden, who’s scheduled to deliver the commencement addresses at Morehouse College and at West Point later this month, “understands that this is a moment of joy, a moment of celebration — and we feel for them.”

“We feel for each of the graduates, and we're going to continue to reiterate the President's comments and statements and what we've said from this podium — to call for protests peacefully, and that's what we're going to continue to do, but we do feel for them," she said. "These are graduates who are going to miss out on an incredibly important day of commencement.”
Jean Pierre declined to say if plans are being made in the event protesters disrupt either of Biden’s scheduled commencement addresses, instead referring questions to the US Secret Service.

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Belgian and Dutch students protest against Israel’s war on Gaza

Students in Belgium and the Netherlands have joined the wave of protests around the world against Israel’s war on Gaza.

The protesters occupied parts of the universities of Ghent and Amsterdam on Monday, joining international student demonstrations that started on US campuses.

At the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the centre of the city, hundreds of students set up a camp, pitching tents, playing in drum circles, and barricading access with wooden pallets.

The students want UvA and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) to end their partnerships with Israeli institutions.

A UvA spokesperson said that while it condoned the protest during the day, it will not tolerate students staying the night.

“If students decide to spend the night, we will report it to the police”, he said.

In neighbouring Belgium, some 100 students occupied part of Ghent University (UGent).

Footage shared on social media shows students surrounded by tents chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has to go” in one university building.

Several UGent employees and professors have signed an open letter supporting the protest and condemning the university’s decision to continue research collaboration with Israel.

“UGent never gives permission to occupy buildings, but if this happens, a general framework of agreements applies,” rector Rik Van de Walle said in a statement. He added that UGent subjects universities with which it collaborates to a human rights investigation.

The Ghent University students said the protest would last until Wednesday, May 8.



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Belgian and Dutch students protest against Israel’s war on Gaza

Students in Belgium and the Netherlands have joined the wave of protests around the world against Israel’s war on Gaza.

The protesters occupied parts of the universities of Ghent and Amsterdam on Monday, joining international student demonstrations that started on US campuses.

At the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the centre of the city, hundreds of students set up a camp, pitching tents, playing in drum circles, and barricading access with wooden pallets.

The students want UvA and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) to end their partnerships with Israeli institutions.

A UvA spokesperson said that while it condoned the protest during the day, it will not tolerate students staying the night.

“If students decide to spend the night, we will report it to the police”, he said.

In neighbouring Belgium, some 100 students occupied part of Ghent University (UGent).

Footage shared on social media shows students surrounded by tents chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has to go” in one university building.

Several UGent employees and professors have signed an open letter supporting the protest and condemning the university’s decision to continue research collaboration with Israel.

“UGent never gives permission to occupy buildings, but if this happens, a general framework of agreements applies,” rector Rik Van de Walle said in a statement. He added that UGent subjects universities with which it collaborates to a human rights investigation.

The Ghent University students said the protest would last until Wednesday, May 8.



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AMSTERDAM, May 7 (Reuters) - Police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters as thousands marched in the Dutch capital on Tuesday, a day after riot police violently broke up an encampment at Amsterdam University.

Police were seen using batons against protesters to prevent them from marching past the nearby Holocaust Monument on their way to Amsterdam city centre.

When protesters arrived at a central Amsterdam University location, protesters barricaded the narrow canal-facing road in front of the university buildings.

Earlier in the day a crowd of several hundred had gathered, chanting slogans against the war in Gaza and denouncing Israel’s ongoing military operations.

"Free, Free Palestine!", protesters shouted. "The people united will never be defeated."

Student protests over the war and academic ties with Israel have begun to spread across Europe but have remained much smaller in scale than those seen in the United States.

Amsterdam police used a bulldozer to knock down barricades early on Tuesday and detained 169 people in sometimes violent clashes, statements and videos of the protest showed.

Teachers and university employees angered by the police response called for another protest on Tuesday afternoon.

"Students and staff describe the use of pepper spray, police batons, police dogs and bulldozers to forcefully remove them. People were injured because of this excessive violence," a group calling itself Dutch Scholars for Palestine said in a statement.

 
Scores protest against Gaza war outside university

More than 100 people have protested against the war in Gaza in one of the UK's most famous student cities.

A demonstration took place in Cambridge alongside the setting up of a protest camp outside King's College.

One student said pro-Palestinian protesters wanted Cambridge University to "disclose" links to companies and institutions "complicit in Israel's genocide".

The university said it would not tolerate "any form of discrimination, intimidation, incitement, bullying or harassment".

One demonstrator said she was "part of a global collective which is a struggle for Palestinian liberation"

One protester, who declined to give the PA Media news agency her name, described herself as "part of a global collective which is a struggle for Palestinian liberation".

She said protesters were demanding that the university "disclose all of its research collaborations and financial ties with companies and institutions complicit in Israel's genocide and then to divest from these".

Another protester told the BBC that demonstrators needed to say something about "Israel’s occupation of Palestine".

"The university was not listening to us, was not hearing our demands," he said.

“It was not disclosing any of its financial ties which we know it has.

"And so we are taking a stand; we are escalating the situation.”

Police said no arrests had been made at the protest.

The Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Campaign has urged people to write to the university to express support for the encampment and "their demands".

A Cambridge University spokesman said the university and King's College, on whose lawn the tents were set up, were operating normally.

"The university is fully committed to academic freedom and freedom of speech within the law and we acknowledge the right to protest," it said in a statement.

"We ask everyone in our community to treat each other with understanding and empathy. Our priority is the safety of all staff and students.

"We will not tolerate antisemitism, Islamophobia and any other form of racial or religious hatred."

The university has issued "protest guidance" which said: "All members of our community should feel safe and we will never tolerate any form of discrimination, intimidation, incitement, bullying or harassment."

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Jewish groups protest visit of Iran’s Ahmadinejad to university in Hungary​


Hungarian Jewish organizations and the Israeli embassy condemn a public university for inviting Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to an event this week.

The Budapest-based Ludovika University of Public Service invited the politician — who has said Israel is doomed to be “wiped off the map” and that the Holocaust was a “myth” — to an academic meeting.

Two Hungarian Jewish congregations, together with a Jewish advocacy group, are the latest to protest the visit of “openly antisemitic” Ahmadinejad in a joint statement today. They urge the university “to consider whether it wishes to give Ahmadinejad the opportunity to spread his dangerous and poisonous ideas within the walls of the institution.”

Ludovika University does not respond to AFP’s request for comment. Hungary’s Foreign Ministry says the government “does not interfere in university programs.”

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Amsterdam pro-Palestinian student protest broken up by police

Dutch riot police clashed with protesters at the University of Amsterdam on Wednesday, while scores of demonstrators at U.S. colleges were arrested overnight as the student-led protests against Israel's war in Gaza roiled more campuses on both sides of the Atlantic.

In Amsterdam, protesters atop makeshift barriers of desks, bricks and wooden pallets used fire extinguishers to push back police, local television showed. Reuters video showed officers in riot gear struck protesters on the head with batons and knocked down the barricades, dragging many young students away as hundreds of others shouted "Shame on you!"

The confrontation underscored mounting tensions at European campuses, after weeks of unrest at dozens of U.S. universities as students call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

At George Washington University in Washington, D.C., police took down tents, deployed pepper spray and cleared demonstrators from campus and the surrounding streets, a few blocks away from the White House.

Thirty-three people were arrested, police said. Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a news conference that authorities had seen "an escalation in the volatility of the protests" in recent days, prompting police and the university to make the decision to remove the encampment.

Smith and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had been scheduled to testify to Congress later on Wednesday about why they had previously declined to clear the encampment, but the hearing was cancelled after the raid.

At the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, police arrested more than 130 people and removed an encampment after the school's chancellor, Javier Reyes, said he had summoned police "as a last resort."

"This is not the outcome we had hoped for," he added.

The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union criticized the move, faulting the school for "calling heavily armed police on student political expression." The school's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group posted video showing protesters thrown to the ground and faculty members among those arrested.

In New York, police arrested dozens of demonstrators at the Fashion Institute of Technology, according to video posted on social media.

Some faculty members at The New School in Manhattan set up a new encampment on Wednesday, according to an Instagram post from the school's SJP chapter, days after the city police department cleared a tent city there and arrested more than 40 people.

DIVESTMENT DEMANDS

Israel's retaliatory campaign in Gaza has killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gazan authorities, and triggered a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and famine threatening the enclave's 2.5 million residents.

The war began when the militant group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostage, according to Israeli tallies.

Students in both the U.S. and Europe have been holding mostly peaceful demonstrations calling for an immediate permanent ceasefire and for schools to cut financial ties with companies they say are profiting from the oppression of Palestinians.

In Amsterdam, UvA management said on Monday it had exchange programmes with three universities in Israel, which are halted because of security concerns, and was cooperating with Israeli scientists or companies in eight different European research projects.

It said none of those partnerships were in support of military goals; the statement did not mention the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

Hundreds of protesters also gathered on Wednesday afternoon outside the university of Utrecht, about 45 kilometres (28 miles) southeast of Amsterdam.

On Tuesday, police dispersed protests at the Swiss University of Zurich and at the courtyard of the Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Last week, police took similar action at the Sorbonne University in Paris, while on Wednesday the Brussels University said it would file a police complaint against students who were allegedly involved in a violent protest, including an assault on the Jewish students union leader.

Not all campus protests have ended in confrontation. Ireland's Trinity College Dublin announced on Wednesday that an encampment and blockade on campus would end peacefully after students and administrators negotiated a settlement.

Among other commitments, the school said it would divest from Israeli companies the United Nations has linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and would "endeavour" to divest from other Israeli companies.

Students had camped out since May 3, forcing the university to restrict campus access and to close an exhibition of the 1,200-year-old Book of Kells, one of Ireland's top tourist attractions.

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PM to meet university leaders over campus protests

Campus protests against the Israel-Gaza war "cannot be targeted at individuals" or disrupt learning, the education secretary has said.

Gillian Keegan told BBC News the government defended the right to free speech but "it has to be done in a respectful way".

She is joining the prime minister and university leaders to discuss tackling antisemitism.

Universities say they take anitsemitism on campuses "very seriously".

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned protests are disrupting learning on university campuses and, in some cases, "propagating outright harassment and antisemitic abuse".

He will call on vice-chancellors to ensure Jewish students are protected.

Ms Keegan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the meeting was to support vice-chancellors to defend free speech but also protect students.

"It’s not an easy thing to do - we do understand that," she said, adding some vice-chancellors had taken "firm steps".

"We need to show leadership, we need to de-escalate and we need to share the best practice which we’ve seen from some vice-chancellors."

'Toxic atmosphere'

The encampments appearing on a minority of UK university campuses in recent days and weeks are much smaller than those in the US.

But the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) has warned they are creating a “hostile and toxic atmosphere for Jewish students.”

Protesters, meanwhile, have told BBC News they are "completely peaceful".

Universities UK, which represents more than 140 universities, published guidance for universities on tackling antisemitism, in 2021.

A representative said there had been a rise in antisemitism on campuses since 7 October, adding universities took it "very seriously and are working hard to ensure the safety of Jewish staff and students".

"In line with the sector’s clear commitment to freedom of speech, it is important that universities allow and support students and staff to debate and discuss this crisis, and the challenging issues it raises, but within the law and with respect and tolerance," they added.

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