to report «iusnews»; The student movement in support of Palestine has intensified throughout the United States and has spread to several other countries, and so far hundreds of students have been arrested by the police.
Students in these countries have always been among the leading groups supporting Palestine, and the wave of protests among different student groups in universities across America and some European countries has intensified.
Anti-Israel protests have spread to which of the American universities?
Columbia University
The police attack on students and their arrests at Columbia University in the United States rekindled anti-Israel protests in the United States.
Columbia University is a private university in New York City, and the conflict between students and the police took place after some university officials asked the police to gather the students' protest camp against Israel.
Before these clashes, the students of this university asked the university authorities to cut off their relations with Israeli companies and institutions.
This group of students set up tents in one of the lawns of the university early last Wednesday.
As tensions continue to mount at Columbia and some students fear they will walk on campus and be arrested by police, university officials announced that the university will switch to blended learning by the end of the semester, meaning some classes will be online.
Yale University
Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. According to media reports, police in this city arrested 60 people, including 47 students, on Monday morning.
The student arrests came after a group of graduate students went on hunger strike to demand that one of its prestigious Ivy League colleges and schools stop working with Israeli-affiliated arms companies.
The student group of hunger strikers "Hunger for Palestine" sent a letter to the director of the university, accusing him of "complicity in the genocide" in Gaza and asking him to end the university's investment in arms companies affiliated with Israel.
New York University
The New York police announced in a report that 133 anti-Israel protesters were arrested late Monday after a demonstration at New York University in the square in front of the university's business school.
The spokesperson of New York University told the media that this demonstration was held without prior notice or permission from relevant authorities.
University of Massachusetts
The state of Massachusetts, in the eastern part of America, is famous for its academic and university institutions, but Boston, the center of this state, has witnessed the establishment of several protest camps against Israel's cruel war against Palestine in the last week.
Emerson College students set up tents near campus buildings in downtown Boston. A group of Tufts University students also set up a tent camp on the Medford campus in this city.
Both groups object that their colleges have financial ties to pro-Israel organizations and research projects linked to anti-Palestinian efforts.
Emory University
The student movement against Israel in America soon became a pandemic. The students of this university also demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the absence of the Tel Aviv war machine by Washington and the White House by setting up tents and protest gatherings.
But the media reported that the Georgia State Police used stun guns to suppress and use violence against these students and arrested the protesters on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Harvard University
A number of Harvard University students also set up a protest tent on the Harvard campus one day after the Palestinian Solidarity Committee was banned and a few days after the university's access to the lawn was restricted.
Brown University
Brown University is one of the oldest American universities in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, whose students have been active in the current movement and have set up more than a dozen protest camps or tents in the university campus park.
They asked the university authorities not to finance the companies that manufacture weapons for Israel and not to cooperate with them.
University of Michigan
The protesting students set up more than 30 tents in the central part of the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan, when the police dismantled a large number of these tents and arrested a group of students.
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota in the city of Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota, USA was also the field of police and protesting students. According to reports published on Tuesday, nine students and anti-war protesters at the University of Minnesota were arrested by the police after disrupting their protest camp.
University of Texas
In South America, a large group of students from the University of Texas in the city of Austin dedicated a part of the lawn area to set up a tent to protest Israel's war against Palestine.
The University of Texas at Dallas also witnessed similar actions by angry students two nights ago.
University of Berkeley
On the West Coast of the United States, students at the University of Berkeley in California pitched a tent and asked the university's officials to refrain from providing indirect financial aid to Israel, while at the same time establishing a Palestinian studies program at the university.
University of Southern California
At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, some protesters attempted to set up a Palestinian tent before being arrested by local police forces, around which a number of students gathered to support the move.
Humboldt Polytechnic University
Students of the California State Polytechnic University in Humboldt city were confronted by the police after occupying a building of the university on Monday night, after which it was announced that the campus was closed and some classes were changed from face-to-face to online.
Seattle University
Hundreds of high school students and college students in the city of Seattle, Washington demonstrated on Tuesday to protest the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Other American universities
A large number of other American universities are still joining the huge uprising of the students of this country against the crimes of Israel, according to the reports published by various media, until Friday morning, the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, as well as the George Washington University, saw protesting students camping.
The students of George Washington, by publishing pictures of their camping on the campus of this university, announced on virtual networks that they do not intend to gather the tents in support of Palestine any time soon.
