Palestinian tents in the heart of American universities; What do students want?
The widespread protest of American students has peaked in the United States while this country is busy with the 2024 presidential election.
Despite the violent reactions of university officials and the American military against students, after weeks, student protests are still at the top of the most important events in this country. Protests that have led to the arrest of more than 2,900 students in 57 colleges and universities of this country.
According to international media reports, while more than 35,000 Palestinians, most of whom were children and women, have lost their lives since the beginning of the war in Gaza last October, public opinion in the world reacted to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in the past seven months. It has changed and American students have organized the biggest university protests since the 1960s in support of the people of Gaza and Palestine.
Reaction to student protests
Instead of addressing the demands of the students, which were raised in a completely calm and well-intentioned way, the university presidents allowed the police to enter the university campuses with anti-riot equipment. The police forces in different American states have also used this permission in a completely violent process to tear down the tents and attack the students and arrest hundreds of them and completely suppress this movement.
Of course, in some universities, including New York University (NYU), on April 22, university faculty members defended themselves by forming a chain around the protesting students’ tents while declaring solidarity with them against police attacks, which were met with police beatings and arrests. . After that, the faculty members of several departments of this university wrote letters to the university president and condemned the police intervention in the affairs of the university and called it a “disgrace”.