They arise at the speed at which they are dismantled. On Thursday the Police dismantled the pro-Palestinian camps on the campuses of Portland State University (for the second time), the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and two more at The State University of New York in New Paltz and Purchase, but others had already emerged at the Universities Washington, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Bristol, Trinity College Dublin, University College London and Sciences Po in Paris, to name a few of those that have joined the student protests that began after the police charge on April 18 in Columbia ( NY).
In the United States alone, the Associated Press count of detainees passed 2,200 on Thursday night, and that had to be included, at the beginning of the day this Friday, the 56 detainees next to The New School, on New York’s Fifth Avenue , and 13 others at New York University (NYU). The previous afternoon hundreds of students danced with drums shouting “Long live Palestine!”, but the presence on the other side of the street of pro-Israel protesters, who from time to time crossed the sidewalk to confront the pro-Palestinians, threatened to unleash the riot. violence.
If the war between Israelis and Palestinians is already reproduced in every corner of New York, the city in the world with the largest concentration of Jews, above Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, blood was about to spill in Tuesday’s police operation in Columbia. The office of prosecutor Alvin Bragg, the same one who plays Donald Trump for accounting fraud, is investigating the case of a police officer who that night fired his weapon during the eviction of the Hamilton Hall building, taken over the night before by students, by “mistaking it for the flashlight,” declared the agent, who has not been identified. No one was injured.
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In Los Angeles, where the Police violently dismantled a camp at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the early hours of Thursday, at least five people were admitted to the emergency room after being shot in the head with rubber balls. According to the ‘Los Angeles Times’, police captain Kelly Muniz denied what his journalists saw with their own eyes and videos posted on social networks.
Only the universities that had chosen to negotiate with the students to meet their demands halfway had achieved calm. The gap in dialogue was opened at the beginning of the week by Northwest University in Evanston (Illinois), which accepted the creation of an advisory committee with students to decide their investments, as well as the provision of scholarships for five displaced Palestinians and the hiring of two teachers of that origin for two years.
The next day protesters from the same university on the Chicago campus took down their tents following the example of their peers. The same thing happened later at Brown University and Providence (Rhode Island), where its president promised to put her proposals to cut ties with companies connected to Israel in the bombings of Gaza to a vote of the board of directors in October.
John Hopkins Universities in Baltimore; Minnesota; and Rutgers, in New Jersey, had signed agreements on these lines this Friday that include cutting ties with sister universities such as Tel Aviv or renouncing donations from companies such as Boeing, which manufactures war machinery for Israel. Jewish organizations such as The American Jewish Committee, dedicated to “opening new doors to Israel and the advancement of Jewish values,” have criticized the agreements they consider “capitulating to the mob.”
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