Washington, April 22.- Groups of protesters gathered in front of the American University of Columbia in New York in support of the students of the center who maintain the Solidarity Camp with Gaza.
According to videos broadcast on social networks, the university students once again set up their tents in an outdoor area of ??the institution, despite the fact that the administration threatened to call the riot police again.
The tents will allow you to stay there on the grass in the rain and on cold nights, one of the messages said.
Also one of the texts published in X described it as another victory for the student movement for Palestine and the students do not move until their demands are met.
Columbia University lost its lawn for graduation preparation and has now announced virtual classes, they expressed amid written slogans such as The world supports Palestine! Students have the power! We will not stop, we will not rest!
This Sunday, students at The New School University in New York began to occupy the campus with a solidarity camp with Gaza, joining those from Columbia and Yale who protest the complicity of higher education in Israel's war, Break published Trough News on your X account.
On the same platform, images of student demonstrations at the University of Southern California (USC) were broadcast demanding that the best student in the course, Asna Tabassum, be allowed to speak at the graduation ceremony.
The rector of the USC revoked the speech of the young woman - distinguished as an exemplary student of the class of 2024 - because Zionist groups claimed that she was anti-Semitic due to her pro-Palestinian positions.
The university chose to bow to the growing wave of neo-McCarthyism that is sweeping universities across the United States, commented a Democracy Now article.
The intensity of emotions, exacerbated by both social media and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, has escalated to the point of creating substantial risks related to the security and normal development of the graduation ceremony, the rector explained in a statement. of the educational center, Andrew Guzman, when taking the measure.
Young people are opposing repressive tactics by university administrations used against students for their brave stand against Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation, The People's Forum stressed.
At least 108 people were arrested at Columbia University on Thursday by New York police for protesting from that camp against Israel's war in Gaza, the largest number of arrests on campus since 1968.
On that occasion, the police arrested more than 700 students who were protesting the university's links to the Vietnam War. (Text and photo: PL)
