PNN – After more than 600 people were arrested at four American universities, the White House insisted on Sunday that the pro-Palestinian protests that have affected American universities in recent weeks must remain peaceful.
According to Pakistan News Network’s report from “ABC” report, John Kirby, the spokesman of the American National Security Council, claimed to this network: “We definitely respect the right to peaceful protests.”
But, he added, “we absolutely condemn the anti-Semitic language we’ve heard recently, and we certainly condemn all hate speech and threats of violence.”
Following the solidarity movement with the people of Gaza and protests in American universities, which started at Columbia University in New York and is spreading to other universities in this country and the world, about 600 people have been arrested in at least 15 universities in more than a week.
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The American website Axios reported that about 600 people have been arrested in pro-Palestinian protests in at least 15 universities across the United States in more than a week.
With the increase in the volume and intensity of protests, university administrations have suppressed student demonstrators in unprecedented ways. Most of the arrests have taken place in camps and sit-ins.
This American media added: Dozens of smaller-scale demonstrations in the university have not witnessed clashes between demonstrators and the police.
On April 17, students set up a camp on the campus of Columbia University after the testimony of Columbia University President Minooche Nemat Shafiq in front of Congress. He was more aligned with lawmakers critical of the student protests than his counterparts at Harvard and Penn during similar earlier testimony.
On April 18, Shafiq asked the New York Police Department to dismantle the student encampment. Since then, solidarity encampments and sit-ins have been held on campuses across America. Student demonstrations against the war in Gaza have been taking place across the United States for more than six months, but these demonstrations intensified with the events of last week.