PNN – With the start of the new academic year this fall in America, it seems that young students in this country are preparing to continue protesting against the Zionist regime’s war in Gaza despite the repressions and strict measures in the last academic semester.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, The American newspaper USA Today mentioned the involvement of the police in the protests at the beginning of the last semester at George Washington University and the clearing of student camps by using pepper spray to disperse the students and wrote:
Mo’taz Salim, a student who says he lost 160 of his relatives in the Gaza war, was among dozens of people arrested that day in May. After this attack, Salim decided to focus more on his activities.
He spent the entire summer talking to members of Congress and participating in protests, the latest of which was at the Democratic Party gathering in Chicago, as well as protesting the controversial visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington.
Although he and others are facing disciplinary hearings for participating in student camps in support of Gaza, he said it is clear that students will not stop protesting when classes resume.
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USA TODAY wrote: With the arrival of the new academic season, many university presidents in America are starting a new round of protests in universities. The previous student semester ended with continued protests, disruption of the graduation ceremony and jeopardy of students’ positions.
According to this report, many universities have not changed their policies on cutting ties with the Zionist regime, which was the main demand of the protesters. International negotiations on a possible cease-fire agreement in Gaza have failed, and some members of Congress are using it as a political opportunity to intervene in discussions about how to suppress the protests.
As young student activists prepare to pursue protests again, tougher rules await them on some campuses.
According to a medical student who participated in the protests at Indiana University, although students consider the new strict and restrictive university regulations a threat, they still want their voices to be heard.
Graeme Blair, associate professor of political science and a faculty member at the University of California, said that the university has taken one of the “toughest measures possible” against professors and students arrested during the protests, including members of the Justice for Palestine group.
The university’s Daily Bruin newspaper reported that more than 200 people were arrested in early May, a day after a group of protesters attacked a peaceful pro-Palestinian camp. In June, dozens more were arrested as students tried to rebuild the camp.
George Boggs, the former president of a community college in California, recalled the protests of the 1990s and said: Although these protests took place in a different period of time in American history, they contained a valuable lesson, and that is: students should be taken seriously.