The Pro-Palestinans support demostartions are spreading across American college campus’s….
(Columbia, Yale and now NYU)
The Israeli/Hamas conflict has touched base in America….
The plight of the people in Gaza has people going to the streets , even to get arrested …
It could be the 1960’s again?
The police made arrests at a third university late Monday, moving to quell a demonstration at New York University after school officials warned that hundreds of protesters would face consequences if they did not leave a campus plaza. The action followed arrests Monday morning at Yale and last week at Columbia.
Officers at N.Y.U. moved into the crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters at around 8:30 p.m., after university leaders said the group had breached school barricades and behaved in a “disorderly, disruptive and antagonizing” manner. It was not immediately clear how many people had been taken into custody.
Officers, some dressed in riot gear, grabbed protesters who refused to move, before cuffing their wrists with zip ties and loading them onto transport vans. Within about half an hour, the encampment had been cleared and the crowd had largely dispersed.
The escalating tension in Manhattan came as turmoil gripped some of America’s most influential universities. Administrators tried to defuse campus protests while balancing the free speech rights of protesters and the fears of many Jewish students, who said some of the demonstrations against the war in Gaza had veered into antisemitism.
As if that were not hard enough, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were watching intently, and people who appeared to be unaffiliated with the universities amped up the conflict, often with virulent antisemitic chants. President Biden said on Monday that he condemned “the antisemitic protests” on campuses, as well as “those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
Here’s more on what is happening:
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At Yale, the police arrested at least 60 people, including 47 students, who defied orders to leave Beinecke Plaza, according to a tally from the university. Later in the day, protesters halted traffic at a major intersection in New Haven, Conn., flanked by university buildings. Here’s what we know about the arrests.
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There were reports of encampments at universities in the Boston area, including at Tufts, Emerson and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in some other parts of the country, including at the University of Michigan and University of California, Berkeley. Here’s what we’re seeing across the country.
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At Columbia, where more than 100 people were arrested last week, classes were held remotely on Monday and officials encouraged students to stay away from campus. More than 100 Columbia professors rallied to criticize the university’s crackdown, while others demanded more protection for Jewish students. Republican lawmakers called for the resignation of Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, who could soon face a censure resolution from the university’s faculty.
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Many Jewish students are away from campuses for the start of Passover on Monday evening, but Jewish groups are pressing university leaders to do more, and quickly, to protect against antisemitism. Several schools, including Columbia, have increased campus patrols. Here’s how Jewish students at the university are feeling….
image….Adam Gray for NY Times
It is unbelievable that this could be compared to the “the 1960s.” This is more like the 1930s in Germany than that.
This is Charlottesville without the tiki torches and with much larger and more threatening crowds.
Large portions of these demonstrators are actively seeking out, threatening, and harassing Jews and making their lives in the United States very unsafe. We would not stand for it, nor should we, if the targets were African-Americans or the LGBT community.
Many of these people do not care about Gaza. They care about harming and terrorizing Jews. Somehow that is getting lost in translation to those who are willfully ignorant.
In the 1960s, people on college campuses called for an end to a war. Today, people on college campuses are calling for “a thousand October 7ths”, the bombing of Tel Aviv, and the destruction of Israel by force. They are actively chanting slogans praising Hamas and Hezbollah.
There is very little “peace, love, and understanding” at play in these demonstrations.
Good to hear from ya CG
I mentioned 60’s in relation to college protests
Ur right
No peace and love
Just support for hurt and starving people battered from ALL sides
And there ARE STILL hostages
Neither side seems to care about them…