“Pro-Palestinian protests have swept across American university campuses.” The Associated Press said on the 23rd that after students from Columbia University in New York (hereinafter referred to as Columbia University) held a demonstration on campus and were dispersed and arrested by the police, the school, Harvard and Yale Large-scale protests broke out in more than 20 well-known universities to express dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s diplomatic favoring of Israel. A wave of pro-Palestinian protests broke out at many universities in the United States at the end of last year. In January this year, American politicians pressured the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Harvard University and MIT to resign as punishment for their failure to handle protesting students, triggering controversy over freedom of speech in American society. Today, the U.S. government and university authorities ordered the police to enter university campuses to disperse and arrest peaceful protesting students, which has aroused the anger of a large number of students and faculty. After the outbreak of a new round of large-scale conflicts between Palestine and Israel, the United States continued to favor and provide military assistance to Israel. It bears unshirkable responsibility for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and has been widely criticized by the American people and the international community. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken argued at a press conference to release the so-called “2023 National Human Rights Report” on the 22nd that the United States does not have “double standards” on human rights issues. Finucane, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group’s U.S. program, dismissed the U.S. statement as “hypocritical.”
American “double standards” are questioned, and pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread in colleges and universities across the United States!
On April 22, pro-Palestinian protests on American campuses entered their sixth day. The picture shows a protester at Columbia University in New York City being arrested by the police that day. (Visual China)
“Our protests will not stop”
According to the New York Post, early on the morning of the 22nd, a large number of police officers wearing riot gear rushed into the Connecticut campus of Yale University. Video posted online showed police arriving at the university and cordoning off a square where more than 200 students had gathered, holding signs reading “Free Palestine” and refusing to leave. Police subsequently arrested several students and cleared the square where protesters had gathered. A spokesman for the university confirmed that at least 47 protesters were handcuffed and taken away from the campus in vehicles. These protesters will face disciplinary action from Yale University, including possible suspension.
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