American universities have been the subject of protests since the very meeting of the wolves in Gaza last June. In recent days, however, tensions have risen after the leadership of Columbia University called the police on their students who fought in the middle of the campus in Manhattan. Similar protest groups began to appear all over the country, and according to copper, the actions also attract activists from outside, who are stirring up the day.
The students of the New York campus refused to leave it for ten days and continued their protests even on Friday night, when the original ultimatum given by the university to clear the space had passed. However, students with protest banners dispersed at night, when about a dozen policemen arrived in the city, the AP agency reported.
Negotiations have progressed and are proceeding as expected, university officials said on Friday, according to AFP.
The pro-Palestinian American organization Palestine Legal has filed a federal lawsuit against Columbia University over its decision to call the police on protesters, Reuters reported. The organization demands that the Ministry of Culture approves the ban, which, according to them, discriminates against Palestine. Columbia University has yet to come out.
Demonstrations at universities reflected the strong disapproval of young Americans with the way Israel fought the Hamas terrorist movement in Gaza. The protesting students demand that the councils suspend business ties and investments that are in any way connected to Israel, and call for an end to the killing of Palestinian civilians. According to critics, the protests are characterized by expressions of anti-Semitism and harassment of Jewish students.
Trump: The protests for me were nothing compared to this
Former US President Donald Trump criticized pro-Palestinian demonstrations at American universities. He claims, among other things, that the infamous far-right mass in Charlottesville in 2017 was nothing compared to the level of hatred in the current events.
In August 2017, hundreds of right-wing extremists and extremists gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Among the women at that time were prominent Holocaust survivors, anti-Semites and supporters of the Ku Klux Klan. Some people wore Nazi symbols and many had Confederate flags, which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) considers a hateful symbol.
Blot extremist in Charlottesville (August 12, 2017).
The protestors met the renegades of the far-right crowd, and the images from Charlottesville sent the American public. One of the radicals drove a car into the peaceful retreat of the crowd. He killed a young woman and nearly injured two people. The driver of the car, who declared himself to be an admirer of Adolf Hitler, is now serving a life sentence for murder and hate crimes.
The situation at the time was said to have escalated when then-President Trump declared that there were people on both sides of the dispute and criticized the violence on both sides, which led to the revelation of Trump as a member of the extreme right.
Trump has been criticizing the student movement for several days. He claimed that radicals want to break up universities, the AFP agency recalled, adding that people like President Joe Biden, who will be Trump’s opponent in the November elections, used the images from the violence in Charlottesville as an ironic comment on the Trump years.
The AP agency has now announced Trump’s release as another attempt to downplay the racist incident in Charlottesville, which was one of the most criticized moments during Trump’s campaign in the US. She also assumed that Trump would try to hide anti-Semitic excesses during the protest against Biden, but Trump’s complaint about Charlottesville again reminded the politician of extreme extremism, some of whom, like the Proud Boys, took part in the flow to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Biden administration was quick to condemn Trump’s actions. The minimization of anti-Semitism and the venom of bigotry, as demonstrated in Charlottesville, is repulsive and polarizing, said House Speaker Andrew Bates.
