Several American university students started a strong movement in support of Palestine. The protest was led by students from Columbia, Yale, and New York universities.Students were barred from classes to quell the protests. Hundreds of student-agitators were arrested somewhere. Many teachers did not teach classes on multiple campuses in protest.
Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, the students of various American universities have been protesting against Israel and in support of Palestine. On this day, some students organized a ‘Solidarity Walkout’ from Harvard’s Memorial Church. Several teachers from the university also participated in the protest. Apart from this, many students protested and went on hunger strike at the New York University and Columbia University campuses. They were holding posters saying, ‘Revolution now’. When the police came to stop the protestors, slogans were raised: ‘We will not stop’. The students of Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley, were also not behind in the protest march.
Although initially warned, the police started arresting the protesting students. As of Monday night, more than 150 students from Yale and New York universities have been arrested. Classes at Columbia University have been suspended to prevent protests. The remaining few classes of the semester will be conducted online, the university said.
Action will also be taken against the students who are on hunger strike on the Yale campus, the authorities said. However, the teachers and students of the university claim that all protest marches were ‘peaceful’. Many pictures and videos of the protest have already spread on social media. It has been seen that the police overturned the tents of protesting students somewhere. Somewhere, the students got into a fight with the police.
This protest by Yale-Columbia University students reminds many of the protests of American students during the Vietnam War. The students took to the streets to talk about America’s role in the Vietnam War. Later, a large section of common people joined them. Condemning the Israeli army’s massacres and America’s role, the students’ walkout in support of Palestine brought back that image five decades later.
