PNN – The New York Times wrote today in a report about the protests of American students against the Zionist regime’s war against the people of Gaza: The chaos created in university campuses across America has caused internal divisions in the Democratic Party and brings political risks for this party in the election year.
The New York Times wrote: Almost seven months after the start of Israel’s war against Hamas, university protests across America have caused new tensions in the Democratic Party over how to strike a balance between supporting freedom of speech and the people of Gaza, on the one hand, and the concerns of some American Jews on the other.
This media closes to the Democrats added: From New York and Los Angeles to Atlanta and Austin, the increase in protest sit-ins and other student demonstrations has been met with severe police repression, and it seems that sometimes the disturbances outside the university environment are related to this. Actions are attracted. The protests have also been the latest point of contention in the Democrats’ intra-party debate over the ongoing war in Gaza.
Most Democrats claim that while supporting freedom of speech, they also condemn anti-Semitism and consider criticism of the Israeli government justified. But dealing with an intractable conflict and distinguishing between legitimate criticism of Tel Aviv and anti-Semitic rhetoric has inflamed universities.
Some lawmakers who have visited the sit-ins and even participated in demonstrations see the students as part of a long tradition of campus activism whose right to free speech is at stake. They claim that some cases of anti-Semitism are not representative of the broader current movement, which has attracted many young left-leaning Jews.
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But some other Democrats claim that the reported cases of intimidation and harassment of some Jewish students are a major feature of the current campus movement.
Senior Democratic officials such as Joe Biden, the President of the United States, heads of Congress and other prominent figures have condemned the anti-Semitism surrounding the Columbia University protests.
Even some Democrats, like Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz, have publicly expressed their solidarity with Jewish students who have felt unsafe because of recent events.
At the same time, the Washington Post newspaper wrote that with the increase in the volume and intensity of the protests, the management of American universities suppressed the protesting students in unprecedented ways. Many students and faculty members have been arrested in these protests.
The statistics of this publication show that so far at least 900 people have been arrested in the protests of American students and academics. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said Stein was arrested Sunday at a pro-Palestinian gathering at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
The pro-Palestinian student movement took off after the Columbia University student sit-in in New York. Students sit in support of Palestine and against Israel’s military action in Gaza and demand not to cooperate with companies that “profit from Israeli apartheid.”
But the administration of this university demanded the intervention of the police and the dismantling of the protesters’ tents. This repressive action not only did not silence the protesters, but caused the protests to spread to many other universities.