American students protest genocide: Police arrest protesters at UT Austin / Columbia, NYU, Yale on the boil over Israel’s war on Gaza / Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for mass arrests

More than 20 people were arrested Wednesday during a pro-Palestinian protest on UT Austin campus, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. The protest, organized by the Palestine Solidarity Committee in Austin, was the latest in a wave of demonstrations sweeping college campuses across the U.S.

DPS said state troopers were on campus at the request of the university and Gov. Greg Abbott to “prevent any unlawful assembly and support UT Police in maintaining the peace by arresting anyone engaging in any sort of criminal activity, including trespass.”

Crowds began to gather on campus shortly before noon Wednesday. Protesters, many wearing masks and Palestinian scarves, chanted, “Free, free Palestine. Killing children is a crime.”…

UT faculty plan second protest

On Wednesday evening, UT faculty released a statement condemning the police presence on campus and announcing another protest Thursday. The letter tells people to gather on the lawn in front of the UT Tower — the same location as Wednesday’s demonstration — at 12:15 p.m. “Instead of allowing our students to go ahead with their peaceful planned action, our leaders turned our campus into a militarized zone,” the letter reads. “No business as usual tomorrow. No classes. No grading. No work. No assignments.”… Source: Texas Standard

Columbia, NYU, Yale on the boil over Israel’s war on Gaza

Top United States university campuses, including those of Yale, New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, are on edge amid arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Monday and mounting tension between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters over the war in Gaza. On Sunday, a prominent rabbi linked to New York’s Columbia University and its affiliated Barnard College, Elie Buechler, urged Jewish students at the institution to stay home due to “extreme anti-Semitism” on the campus….

Earlier, on April 18, New York police arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia on charges of trespassing. Several students were also suspended from Columbia and Barnard – which sits across Broadway from Columbia’s main campus in Morningside Heights – including Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Ilhan Omar, a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives….

A range of student groups are behind the protests. At Columbia, the so-called “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” has been organised by the student-led coalition, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

The protesters are calling for Columbia to divest from corporations that profit from Israel’s war on Gaza. The CUAD website lists additional demands, calling for more financial transparency about Columbia’s investments, and the severing of academic ties and collaborations with Israeli universities and programmes. The groups are also calling for a complete ceasefire in Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/22/columbia-university-on-edge-over-gaza-whats-going-on

Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for mass arrests and suspensions

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