2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses

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April 2024 Israel–Hamas war protests on United States university campuses
Part of Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
Clockwise from top:
DateApril 17, 2024 – present
(3 weeks and 5 days)
Location
United States
Europe
Australia
Caused by
MethodsProtests, civil disobedience, picketing
Casualties
Injuries20+ protesters
At least 1 journalist
4 police officers
Arrested880+ protesters
Map
Universities in the United States with Israel–Hamas war protests in April 2024. Columbia University is marked in red. Other colleges that had encampments are marked in green, and non-encampment protests are marked in blue.

On April 17, 2024, a series of pro-Palestinian Israel–Hamas war protests began in the United States. They emerged in response to the New York City Police Department entering the Columbia University students' encampment to conduct mass arrests during a pro-Palestinian campus occupation, where protesters sought for the university to divest from Israel.

Demonstrations spread on April 22, when students at several universities on the East Coast—including New York University, Yale University, Emerson College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University—began occupying campuses. Protests began emerging throughout the United States in the following days, with protest camps established on over 40 campuses,[2] as well as student protests in Europe, Australia and Canada. The varying demands from the different protests include severing financial ties with Israel and it's affiliated entities, transparency over financial ties,[3] as well as amnesty for protesters.[4]

In response to the protests, police departments have detained students, university administrators have suspended students—and in Atlanta—several professors were detained at Emory University.[5] Over seven hundred students have been arrested,[6] after a crackdown on April 27 led to approximately a further two hundred arrests, at Northeastern, Arizona State and Indiana University.[7] The occupations have resulted in the closure of Columbia University and the Cal Poly Humboldt for the remainder of the semester;[8][9] criticism from President Joe Biden,[4] U.S. governors Ron DeSantis,[10] Greg Abbott,[11] and Josh Shapiro;[12] as well as condemnation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[13] The police response to the protests has also faced criticism from U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democrats,[14][15] with the protests otherwise supported by Jewish senator Bernie Sanders.[16]

Background

Further information: Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States § Universities

Protests, including rallies, demonstrations, campaigns, and vigils, relating to the Israel–Hamas war have occurred nationwide across the United States since the start of the conflict on October 7, 2023, occurring alongside other Israel–Hamas war protests around the world. Pro-Palestinian protestors criticized US military and diplomatic support to Israel and Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip and its war conduct, which some called a genocide.[17][18]

Some of the protests are organized by groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace, founded in 1996 as a progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization, IfNotNow founded during the 2014 Gaza War, and Students for Justice in Palestine, which has over 200 chapters across North America.[19]

Content

Many of the protests are based around students demanding that their schools sever financial ties to Israel and companies involved in the conflict, as well as an end for the US military support to Israel,[20][11] as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[3] Some protests have also demanded that the universities sever academic ties with Israel, support a ceasefire in Gaza and disclose investments.[21] Demands from students have also varied among the different occupations, including for universities to stop accepting research money from Israel that supports the military, and the end to college endowments being invested with managers who profit from Israeli entities.[3]

After several mass arrests, the demands have also included amnesty for students and faculty members that were disciplined or fired for protesting. The protests on many of the campuses are created by coalitions of student groups, and largely are independent, but some have claimed that they were inspired by other campus protests, and all have disavowed violence.[22][4]

Participants are students and faculty of various backgrounds with both Jews and Muslims participating in the protests, which have hosted teach-ins, interfaith prayer and musical performances.[4] Some protests invited individuals to tour or speak at the protests such as Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza who was invited and visited the Columbia protests.[23][24] Some who have participated have also raised concerns about treatment on campus for Palestinian students, with one anonymous student at University of Pennsylvania, claiming that their administration had created a hostile environment for Palestinian students while attempting to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students.[25]

The protests have been compared to the protests of 1968 amid opposition to the Vietnam War due to the scale of the protests as well as the tactics.[26] The Guardian described the protests as "perhaps the most significant student movement since the anti-Vietnam campus protests of the late 1960s".[27] According to The Independent, protesters studied the historical movement, while an undergrad student from Columbia commented that student organisers learnt from the experiences of older generations, describing the movement as "completely built" on the legacy of the 1968 protests.[28]

Protests

In Arizona

On April 25, dozens gathered to protest on the Old Main lawn at Arizona State University in Tempe. Campus police announced several people were arrested "for setting up unauthorized encampment, in violation of university policy and the ABOR Student Code of Conduct."[29] The same day, a protest was held at the University of Arizona in Tucson.[30]

On April 27, the Arizona State University Police Department arrested 69 protesters after the unauthorised encampment was established on campus.[31][7]

Encampment at UC Berkley on April 25, 2024.

In California

Signs at the Stanford University encampment

The Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Northern California was shut down by officials on April 22 after students occupied a university building and barricaded its entrance.[32] On April 26, the university closed the campus for the remainder of the semester with classes conducted remotely due to the occupation.[33][9]

Student protesters put up more than a dozen tents on Sproul Plaza at University of California, Berkeley, stating they would remain until the university divested from companies involved with the war. University officials pledged to remove protesters who put up tents or "disrupted academic activity" by force.[34] Also on April 25 an encampment was set up at Stanford University.[35]

On April 25, after the mass arrest of protestors at USC the day before, the University of California, Los Angeles chapter of SJP set up a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" between Powell Library and Royce Hall. Social media posts announcing the encampment directly referenced the arrests at USC, and aerial footage showed about 20 tents and a few hundred protestors.[36]

On April 25, hundreds of people occupied an administration building at UC Santa Barbara. Tents were set up inside the building but no occupation was planned, according to an organizer. No police were present.[37]

Also on April 25, a protest march was held at the University of California, Irvine.[38]

On April 26, tents went up at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park for an encampment organized by Students for Justice in Palestine.[39]

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC) canceled a pro-Palestinian student's valedictorian speech citing a need to "maintain campus safety and security" after pro-Israel groups accused her of antisemitism.[40][41] This was followed by protests.[42] Some student organizations, including the editorial team of USC's student newspaper, criticized the choice to cancel Asna's speech.[43][44]

During April 24, students attempted to establish an encampment.[45] About 93 people were arrested during the night of April 24 including one arrest for assault with a deadly weapon, with no reports of injuries.[46][45] USC later canceled many of its speakers for commencement before canceling the commencement altogether, citing safety concerns.[47]

In Connecticut

On April 12, at Yale University, ahead of the university's Bulldog Days, when admitted freshmen would be visiting, a group of graduate students conducted a hunger strike to call attention to the university's investment in weapons manufacturers profiting off of the war in Gaza.[48] Students supporting those striking grew daily until reaching critical mass[clarification needed] after the events at Columbia University. Students at Yale University set up an encampment where sixty pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on April 22 on charges of trespassing.[49][50][51] Yale administrators claimed that arrests were because students failed to leave after a warning that the protest posed "a safety violation".[52][53]

On April 25, an encampment was launched at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. One person was arrested.[54]

In Florida

On April 24, a protest organized by the "UF Divestment Coalition" took place at the Plaza of the Americas at the University of Florida in Gainesville.[55]

A planned encampment on Landis Green at Florida State University lasted only a few minutes on April 25 before being disbanded by sprinklers and university police.[56]

In Georgia

Students at the Georgia Institute of Technology held a pro-Palestine rally on April 24. The next day, students at Kennesaw State University participated in a walkout.[57]

On the morning of April 25, police arrested demonstrators at an encampment at Emory University.[58] Students had established the encampment that morning in solidarity with the people of Gaza as well as in protest of Cop City.[59] Georgia State Patrol, Atlanta Police and University Police began clearing the encampment within three hours of its establishment. Tasers on restrained students and tear gas were used to arrest at least 20 students.[60][61][62][63] Caroline Fohlin, the chair of Emory's philosophy department, was one of the arrested.[64] A video of police using a taser on a restrained protester at Emory went viral, however the vice president from public safety Cheryl Elliott claimed that the individual did not appear to be associated with Emory. Elliot also sent an email to the Emory community, claiming that "chemical irritants" were necessary for crowd control due to reported direct assault of officers.[15]

In Illinois

On April 22, students at Loyola University in Chicago held a protest. According to an organizer: “Essentially we’re following in the footsteps of students at Columbia and all over the U.S..”[65]

Hundreds of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students rallied on April 24 to demand the university divest from BlackRock.[66] On April 26, the University announced that the group had 30 minutes to remove their tents. After 45 minutes, one person who was not a student was arrested for interfering with University staff's attempt to take the tents down.[67][68]

On April 25, students at Northwestern University established an encampment on the south campus of the school's Evanston campus.[69] Several dozen students started the encampment; and the crowd grew to over a thousand by Thursday evening.[70] In response to the protests, the university declared an interim addendum to the student code of conduct prohibiting tents from being erected on campus.[71]

On April 26, students at the University of Chicago held a protest march and called for the universities to cut ties with Israel.[72]

In Indiana

On April 19 demonstrators at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis marched on Monument Circle in response to the government's response to the war. [73]

On April 25, US Senator Todd Young was being interviewed by Purdue University president Mung Chiang on campus when the event was interrupted by demonstrators. Organizers with Students for Justice in Palestine and Young Democratic Socialists of America quickly set up an encampment. The chief of the Purdue Police claimed the students were not allowed to have tents, but later, a University spokesman claimed that students were allowed to have tents.[74]

At Indiana University, police arrested 33 protesters after an encampment was set up at the Dunn Meadow.[75] The "IU Divestment Coalition" made demands including the resignation of the President of the University, the Provost and the Vice-Provost. The University must stop collaborating with Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in Bloomington. The University must adhere to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.[76] The latter would be in violation of a state law blacklisting companies that adhere to BDS.[77][78]

In Louisiana

A walkout took place at Tulane and Loyola University in New Orleans on April 26. St. Charles Avenue was closed due to the march. Students demanded that both Universities divest from companies profiting from Israel's war.[79] A pro-Palestinian protest was held outside of the Louisiana State University student union on the same day.[80]

In Maryland

A sit-in organized by Students for Justice in Palestine took place at University of Maryland in College Park on April 23.[81] The group planted Palestinian flags in Hornbake Plaza.[82]

Students rallied and marched through campus at Johns Hopkins University on April 24.[83]

In Massachusetts

On April 19, students at Boston University protested in solidarity with Columbia students.[84]

On April 24, 2024, students set up an encampment at Harvard University on Harvard Yard.[85]

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology protested for the university to cut research ties with the IDF.[86] A solidarity encampment with at least a dozen tents also appeared at Tufts University.[87][88]

On the evening of April 21, 2024, students at Emerson College set up an encampment in the Boylston Place alleyway in solidarity with those arrested in similar protests.[89] The students called for Emerson to divest from any associations with Zionist ties.[90] During the night of April 24, about 108 people were arrested at the protest with video showing officers forcefully moving through the crowd and throwing protestors on the ground, who had linked arms and used umbrella's to resist. Four officers were reportedly injured with non-life threatening injuries. School administrators stated that the protestors had been warned to leave before hand as the alleyway was not solely owned by the school and that city authorities had threatened to become involved.[46]

On April 25, Northeastern University students circled their encampment on the school's Centennial Commons and chanted as police approached. Police left the scene shortly afterward.[91]

Demonstrators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst protested the inauguration of UMass Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes, calling on him to cut ties with military groups and drop charges against people who had been charged during previous protests at UMass Amherst.[92] The same day, a protest was held at Boston College. During the protest, an organizer read a letter written by a BC student who had been arrested at Emerson and banned from the BC campus.[93]

On April 27, more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Northeastern University in Boston. School officials alleged the student demonstration was infiltrated by outsiders.[94]

In Michigan

About 25 tents were spotted near the Hatcher Graduate Library at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.[95] Counter protests were seen with students handing out small Israeli flags near the encampment to show support for Israel.[20]

On April 25, students at Michigan State University in East Lansing set up a solidarity encampment in the same "People's Park" area that hosted an anti-Vietnam War encampment in 1970.[96]

In Minnesota

Nine University of Minnesota students were arrested on April 23 while attempting to set up an encampment on the Minneapolis campus.[97] Protests resumed the following day.[98]

On April 26, a group of student protesters at Hamline University held a sit-in protest at the university president's office building. After 29 hours the protesters moved to an encampment on the lawn in front of the building.[99]

In New Hampshire

Around 200 people demonstrated at Dartmouth College's campus on April 25.[100] Another protest was held at the University of New Hampshire on the same day, where demonstrators called for UNH to divest from companies based in Israel.[101]

In New York

Columbia University

Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University on April 23, 2024
Signs displayed along side of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University on April 22, 2024
This section is an excerpt from 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation.[edit]

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Gaza Solidarity Encampment:

  • NYPD raids campus on April 18 and April 30 and maintains officers on campus until May 17
  • Student participants suspended
  • Columbia University maintains financial ties with Israel

Other faculties

Police broke down tents and arrested at least a dozen students near the Stern School of Business at New York University on April 22.[102] 133 protesters were arrested.[97] Helga Tawil-Souri, a professor at NYU, stated, "They brought in the police – hundreds of policemen in riot gear".[103]

On the left, a mural in solidarity with Gaza at Cornell University. On the right, "People's University for Palestine" encampment at Cornell University on April 25, 2024.

Authorities at NYU have alleged that some participants involved in the protests were without links to the university, and the head of Columbia alleged that tensions on campus were being exploited and increased by individuals not affiliated with the university had joined the protests.[104]

On April 22, 2024, Cornell University undergraduates supported, by a 2–1 margin, a referendum calling for a permanent ceasefire and for divestment from weapons manufacturers supporting Israel.[105] On April 25, 2024, students at Cornell erected an encampment, calling for the university to divest from companies involved with the "ongoing genocide" in Gaza.[106] Cornell University suspended four student protesters on April 27, 2024.[107]

A group called "The New School's Students for Justice in Palestine" established a solidarity encampment inside the University Center building on their Greenwich Village encampment on April 21.[108]

More than a dozen tents were spotted at a solidarity encampment at University of Rochester's River Campus on April 23.[109] On April 24, the University's faculty Senate stated its intention to investigate its ties to Israel.[110]

A student-built encampment was established at the West Harlem campus of the City College of New York on April 25. The encampment was joined by a number of Hasidic Jews.[111]

Students at the Fashion Institute of Technology occupied the school's Shirley Goodman Resource Center building on April 25.[112]

A peaceful protest was held at the University at Buffalo's North campus on April 24.[113]

In North Carolina

A solidarity encampment zone at University of North Carolina at Charlotte was set up on April 22. They were told by security to disembark but they decided to remain until at least April 25 when the Board of Trustees meets again.[114]

Another encampment was set up at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 26. After negotiations, the organizers agreed to take the tents down in exchange for being allowed to stay at the site.[115]

A pro-Palestinian rally was held at Duke University on April 26.[116]

In Ohio

On April 19, SJP organizers at Miami University staged a walkout with about 15 students in support of protestors that had been arrested at Columbia. The University of Cincinnati SJP chapter promoted the Ohio State University encampments.[20] The same day, students at Case Western Reserve University held a die-in during Admitted Students Day.[117]

After a gathering at a campus amphitheater and a protest outside of a board meeting, two students at Ohio State University (OSU) were arrested for criminal trespass on April 23.[22] Two days later, a third student was arrested outside of the Ohio Union during a Gaza encampment around 10 am, with campus police demanding that the protestors vacate the space since they had not reserved it.[118] Police posted snipers on Ohio Union's roof.[119]

On April 25, the OSU student newspaper The Lantern initially reported "University Confirms There Are No Snipers on the Ohio Union's Roof." But deleted the article because it was later determined that the law enforcement officers in the social media posts were carrying long range firearms.[120]

In Pennsylvania

Students at Swarthmore College built a solidarity encampment on campus. At University of Pennsylvania, college leaders announced they would be holding a "listening session" but students expressed disinterest.[121] UPenn students created their own encampment on April 25, with several dozen faculty members also present. A small counter protest was held near the encampment, with one student claiming the encampment was "disgraceful" leading him to want to show support for Israel and Jewish people.[25][122]

Students at University of Pittsburgh declared a "Liberation Zone" on the lawn outside the Cathedral of Learning and made demands that the University declare and divest from investing in Israel.[123][124] City police and campus police asked the group to move off-campus to nearby Schenley Plaza and the group agreed.[125]

On April 24, hundreds of demonstrators marched through Philadelphia, stopping at Drexel University, Temple University, City Hall and finally setting up a solidarity encampment at University of Pennsylvania.[126][127]

Protests were also held at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania State University in State College,[128][129] Millersville University in Millersville,[130] and Dickinson College in Carlisle.[131]

In Texas

Around 100 University of Texas at Dallas students participated in an April 23 occupation of a campus building, holding a sit-in in a hallway near the university president's office.[132][133] That same day, the Texas A&M University chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America held a march through the Texas A&M campus.[134] Two days later, a protest was held at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.[135] A protest was also held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.[136]

The San Antonio chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the University of Texas at San Antonio chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine organized an April 24 rally on the UTSA campus.[137] At Rice University in Houston, protesters established a "liberated zone" on a campus green space. Elsewhere in Houston, students at the University of Houston held a peaceful protest outside the student center.[138][139]

On April 24, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee student group at the University of Texas at Austin initiated a walkout and sit-in on the South Mall of the campus.[140][141] According to The Dallas Morning News, students were arrested when Texas state troopers were deployed to disperse protesters.[142] At least 50 troops in riot gear descended upon the encampment.[143] The scene was later described by AP News as hundreds of local and state police, including some on horse back and holding batons, aggressively bulldozing into the protestors and arresting 57. One student called the protest peaceful, until the police presence and called the police and their action an "overreaction."[46]

A photographer with local television station Fox 7 Austin was arrested after reportedly being caught in a scuffle between law enforcement and students on April 24, with the station reposting the viral footage to Twitter, stating their employee was pushed by an officer into another before being thrown to the ground and arrested.[144][11] Another Texas journalist was knocked down and seen bleeding before being handed off to emergency medical staff by police. The officers ended up leaving after a few hours and about 300 demonstrators moved back to sit and chant near the clock tower.[46]

On April 25, charges were dismissed against 46 of those arrested at the UT Austin protest.[145] A university statement said that almost half of the people who were arrested during the protest were not students or staff affiliated with the university and were part of "outside groups”[146][147] That day, a previously planned demonstration by a local Texas State Employees Union chapter, initially intended to protest the anti-DEI legislation SB 17, incorporated additional pro-Palestine protest activity.[148]

In Virginia

Protesters at the University of Virginia held a die-in on April 19.[149]

On April 26, students at Virginia Tech set up an encampment outside the Graduate Life Center.[150][151]

In Washington, D.C.

A walkout occurred at American University in Washington, DC on April 23, 2024.[81]

On April 25, students from Georgetown University and George Washington University established a joint encampment[152] in response to the International Court of Justice's ruling that Israel has violated the Genocide Convention. At 5:30 am, about 70 students set up 25 tents at University Yard. The campus police arrived at 6 am and informed them that they were only allowed to be on campus between 7 am and 7 pm. Around noon, 200 students took part in a rally. At 1 pm, 150 more marchers arrived at the encampment. At 2:30 pm, counter-protesters arrived.[153]

Other U.S. universities

Protesters from the University of Colorado Denver and Metropolitan State University set up an encampment at the Trivoli Quad in the Auraria Campus, an educational facility used by both colleges. Police detained several protesters.[154][155]

At 6 am on April 24, about 80 students set up tents on the Main Green at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Their demands were to drop charges against 41 students who took part in a sit-in last December and that the University divest from "companies enabling and profiting from Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian territory."[156]

Following protests at Portland State University, university president Ann Cudd announced on April 26 that the school would pause all ties to Boeing. While the university does not currently invest in the company, it had previously accepted philanthropic gifts from Boeing.[157]

On April 22, faculty and staff at Princeton issued a pledge to withhold labor from Columbia University until it meets their demands to reinstate students who were wrongly suspended for protesting, remove the NYPD from Columbia campus and reverse the suspension of two pro-Palestinian student groups.[158] On April 24, plans for a "Princeton Gaza Solidarity Encampment" were intercepted by the conservative leaning National Review.[159] On April 15, about 100 students started an encampment in McCosh Courtyard, declaring "We’re gonna be here until the University divests." Two people were arrested before 10 am.[160]

An encampment was set up outside the Biden School for Public Policy at the University of Delaware on April 24.[161]

A pro-Palestinian protest was held at the University of Nevada, Reno on April 26.[162]

On April 24, a solidarity encampment set up near the duck pond at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Protesters demanded that the university divest from Israel and arms manufacturers that are known to use research from UNM faculty and students.[163][164]

Several protests were held at the University of South Carolina. Two people were arrested after one protest, which was held in a dining hall.[165][166]

About 30 people attended a rally organized by "Maine Students for Palestine" at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.[167]

With the longest-running of the student encampments, Vanderbilt University expelled three students following a 24-hour sit-in by the entrance of the administrative building.[168]

About 50 protesters from the university and the community gathered at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. An alumnus of the school who is a current student at Columbia University spoke at the event. Police from Richmond County, St. Louis Metro and the University were called to disburse the small crowd.[169] On April 27, more than 80 protesters were arrested,[31] including Green Party U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein and her campaign managers, according to the campaign's communications director.[170]

Around forty people protested outside of the Wichita State University student center, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.[171]

International

"Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in the University of Sydney

A "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" was spotted on the campus of University of Sydney.[172]

On April 27, an encampment of around 20 tents was set up on the grounds of McGill University in Montreal, calling on the institution to cut financial ties with Israel.[173][174] Students of nearby Concordia University also participated. Police officers of the SPVM monitored the protest. In a statement, McGill said encampments were not permitted on campus but did not say whether they would be forcibly removed.[174]

Students at the American University of Cairo held a protest on April 22, calling for the university to divest from Hewlett Packard and Axa.[175]

At Sciences Po an encampment of about 60 students was broken up by the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité on April 24.[176] A group of students decided to stay before the police withdrew.[177][178] On April 26, protesters then occupied a campus building and barricaded themselves inside the university.[179][180] On April 25, students at Sorbonne University protested in support of Palestine.[181]

Student protests occurred at La Sapienza, Roma[182] and Politecnico di Napoli (Naples).[183]

In England, students from the University of Warwick occupied the campus piazza on the evening of April 19.[184] On April 22, students from the University of Leicester Palestine Society held a protest.[185] On April 26, a rally was held by students of University College London on campus.[184]

Responses

Domestic

Faculty and staff

Rebecca Karl, a professor at NYU, stated that historically, "there have been a number of confrontations that have been dealt with by universities in ways that stress that we are not a violent institution... I’m personally very concerned".[186] Wadie Said, a professor at the University of Colorado, stated, "The First Amendment is the hallmark of freedom.. You see that being curtailed based on viewpoint discrimination, which is something not supposed to be allowed under the First Amendment".[187]

Law enforcement

Police departments have employed a range of tactics against protesters including dispersing crowds using horses and police in riot gear, deploying pepper balls,[5] the use of tasers,[31] mass arrests, [188] and the clearing of unauthorized encampments.[31] According to The Lantern, roof top snipers were deployed at Ohio State University,[189] however fact-checking website Snopes have been unable to confirm the claim.[120]

Organizations

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) executive director Afaf Nasher criticized the use of police force to break up the protests, stating it undermined academic freedom. Civil rights advocates such as the ACLU have raised free speech concerns over the mass arrests that were seen during the protests.[190]

Political

On April 22, President Joe Biden criticized and condemned the protests calling them antisemitic and "those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."[4] Former President Donald Trump, stated that the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was "peanuts" comparative to the ongoing protests.[191] House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke at Columbia on April 24 stating that he was committed "that Congress will not be silent as Jewish students are expected to run for their lives and stay home from their classes hiding in fear."[12]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described the situation at Columbia and other campuses as "inmates run[ning] the asylum."[10] Texas Governor Greg Abbott, stated that the protestors "belonged in jail" and continued claiming that the protests were "hate-filled, antisemitic protests" and anyone engaging in them should be expelled.[11] After the mass arrests seen at UT on April 24, many voiced their disapproval over Abbott's handling of the decision and the police tactics. Texas state Democrats claimed that Abbotts Department of Public Safety had "more courage to arrest peaceful student protestors then when an active shooter entered an elementary school in Uvalde."[15] U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also criticised the deployment of police against the Columbia University protest, describing the decision as "escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act".[14]

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro raised criticism to the colleges and universities that did not do enough to protect its students, which could lead to antisemitic incidents.[12]

Public and students

A Palestinian student at Columbia blamed the University for the protests, stating that they had not felt safe at the University since the start of the war as a "direct result of Columbia's one-sided statements and inaction." While a Jewish Columbia student stated the protests were a result of the Israeli destruction of universities and education in Gaza so they had reclaimed Columbia for Palestine.[190] A doctorial student at UT claimed that Abbott used the protest and resulting police actions, to further his political agenda, on right wing ideals.[15]

International

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the protests were "horrific," anti-Semitic and must be quelled.[13] Jewish U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders responded vehemently to the PM's claim that universities were experiencing antisemitism, accusing Netanyahu of distracting the American people from the Israel–Hamas war,[2] as well as expressing support for the pro-Palestinian protests. [192]

Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza spoke about the protests after being invited to visit the Columbia protest, saying his experience was great and he appreciated students wanting to know more and educate themselves, and that it was an honor to raise awareness about the Gaza Strip.[23]

In response to the protests at Columbia, the spokesperson for India's Ministry of External Affairs stated, "In every democracy, there has to be the right balance between freedom of expression, sense of responsibility and public safety and order... After all, we are all judged by what we do at home and not what we say abroad."[193]

See also

References

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