WASHINGTON, (PIC)
Thousands of students continued their protests in dozens of US universities, rejecting the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, and demanding an end to the war and the US support for it.
Protests have popped up in about 44 US universities and colleges despite police arrest campaigns against students and organizers who support them.
The American students movement in support of the Palestinian people is expanding from Los Angeles to New York, passing through Austin, Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta, where demonstrations and protests were organized at a number of world prestigious universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton.
The students were able to set up more tent encampments in many universities to deliver their message to local communities and decision-makers in Washington about the need for immediate intervention to stop the war and support Palestinian rights.
The students are seeking to put pressure on the US administration to withdraw investments from Israel and the companies supporting it. They are calling as well for boycotting Israeli universities complicit in the genocide against the Palestinian people.
On Thursday, professors as well as students were arrested by the police from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, during a demonstration in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, amid assaults, rubber bullets, and tear gas.
Video clips showed the police arresting and assaulting the head of the Philosophy Department, Noelle McAfee, and Professor of Economics, Carolyn Fohlin, at Emory University, after they participated in a protest demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the US support for Israel.
The scenes show the police treating Fohlin violently at the university, throwing her to the ground before arresting her, while she was telling them that she was a professor at the university.
Local platforms also published scenes showing Atlanta police trying to disperse students at Emory University with rubber bullets after they had demonstrated in support of Palestine and in condemnation of the genocide in Gaza.
US media reported that police officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesting students and faculty at Emory University.
Since April 18, the student movement in support for Palestine and condemnation of the continued US support for Israel has been on the rise in the United States after Columbia University President Nemat Shafiq called the police on students, who set up a tent encampment on the university campus to protest the continuation of the war in Gaza, arresting about 100 of them.
The pro-Gaza protests began last week at Columbia University in New York State, when a group of students decided to organize an open sit-in inside a tent encampment in the university courtyard, denouncing the aggression against the Palestinian people.
