High tension on New York campuses, where new pro-Palestinian protests erupt

Tension is high this Thursday on the campuses of New Yorkwhere new sources of student protest emerged in solidarity with Palestinelike in New York University (CUNY, public) and even at the Fashion Institute, which now has its own camps imitating that of Colombia.

This afternoon, the police intervened in the camp of CUNY with the apparent intention of arresting the detained students, but without the intention of charging, and in fact abandoned their purpose in the face of determined opposition from the students and after a struggle, as EFE was able to verify.

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CUNY students, perfectly organized, have medical services, food and coffee, as well as musical groups, and during the day they dedicate themselves to making banners with pro-Palestinian slogans (many of them in Spanish) and raising Palestinian flags, one of them of enormous size hanging just below the American who presides over the campus.

Meanwhile, there is uncertainty about what will happen in Colombiaepicenter of all protests, where the deadline given to students to dismantle their camp expires the following night, but now they do not recognize the deadline.

The president of Colombia, Nemat Shafikmet on Thursday with the mayor of New York, Eric Adamsand they discussed “current issues on campus“, said a university spokesperson, without giving further details, in what some consider to be preparations for a police intervention.

The university said that for days a small group “has been in dialogue with student organizers to discuss the basis for dismantling the camps”.

“There is a formal process underway. As Shafik said: “We are very hopeful that these debates will be successful. If not, we will have to consider options for restoring the Columbia campus.’“said the university spokesperson at a press conference, Ben Chang.

For their part, the students stated in a press conference that they will remain “in this field until we meet all our demands. And this is our position with the university, which understands very well”.

Next to him, small Israeli flags appeared on a lawn along with some US flags, as well as photos of people kidnapped in the past. October 7thafter an attack of Hamas for Israel that triggered the war in Link.

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The protest against the war in Gaza that began in Colombia last week quickly spread to New York University and across the country: California, New Mexico, Connecticut, Chicago, Massachusetts, Texas, Minnesota, Ohio, washington It is Rhodes Islandwhere hundreds of arrests were made.

These are the most massive and widespread university protests since the Vietnam Warand can create serious political problems for the president Joe Biden in an election year.

donald trump He is already taking political advantage of the matter and this Thursday, upon leaving the court, he said: “Look at what’s happening out there, that thing about Palestine and Israel, these protests and this hate, they send a horrible message. Biden doesn’t know how to deal, he doesn’t know how to speak, he doesn’t even know how to put two sentences together, he doesn’t know what to do and we have protests everywhere“, he said.

Source: Elcomercio

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