Students protest at US universities against Israel's military operation in Gaza The protests escalated as many students were arrested Protesters have been charged with anti-Semitism
Protesters have been gathering on the main square of Columbia University's Manhattan campus in America for the past few days. There they pitched tents on the green land and protested against Israel's military operations in Gaza, Palestine.
In this situation, Columbia University President Nemat Minoche Shafiq called the New York Police to the campus last Thursday (April 18). Riot police arrested more than a hundred students The university authorities expelled the arrested students
“I took this special action because special circumstances arose,” Shafiq wrote in an email message circulated on campus Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Columbia University faculty also staged a walk-out in solidarity with the students on Monday following the students' arrest. They criticized the leadership of the university
The university authorities first announced on Monday that the classes will be taken online It was later said that classes will be held in hybrid model for the rest of the academic year
On October 7 last year, the pro-independence organization Hamas attacked Israel 1,200 people died in their attack and 240 others were captured In response, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a military operation in Gaza
More than 34,000 people have died since then, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza As a result of the operation, the lack of food, water and medicine has created a humanitarian disaster situation in Gaza, according to international organizations
“We want our protest against the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza to be heard,” Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a platform of pro-Palestinian student organizations at Columbia University, wrote about the protest on Instagram.
This protest in Columbia has spread to other universities in the United States Students protested at New York University, Yale University and several other universities
Source: Deutsche Welle
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