New York police evict pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University | Middle East, eternal conflict

New York police on Tuesday evening cleared pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a building at Columbia University from the night before, as petition troops intervened at the heart of pro-Palestinian mobilization on American campuses.

A spokesperson for the New York Police Department announced The New York Times Results of surgery on Tuesday evening: No one was in the building And the camp is empty.

About two hours later, an AFP journalist found the camp cleaned up, with all the tents removed by university staff and the remaining items thrown into large black garbage bags.

For their part, US media reported that all demonstrators had been evacuated from the campus.

Dozens, if not hundreds, of police officers entered the Columbia campus on Tuesday evening with the help of a ladder-equipped intervention vehicle, while American student anger has spread to universities across the country for two weeks. Protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s.

Helmeted officers climbed a ladder and entered the occupied building through a window.

Dozens of people, some wearing keffiyehs, were arrested and handcuffed before being placed in police buses, AFP noted. The crowd roared outside the campus Free Palestine!.

Last night's events on campus left us with no choiceMinuch Shafiq, the president of the university, wrote in a public letter asking the New York Police to intervene in the perimeter of this private institution in Manhattan.

For two weeks, he and several university presidents across the country have faced protesters, sometimes a few dozen in number, occupying their campuses to protest Israel's war in Gaza against Hamas.

In a letter to the New York Police, Ms. Shafiq is asking law enforcement to To maintain order, ensure that no camps are established and maintain presence in the campus till at least May 17. The graduation ceremony will be held on May 15.

During the night from Monday to Tuesday, a few dozen protesters barricaded themselves in a building renamed Hamilton Hall. Hind Hall By Palestine Support Group Columbia University Apartheid DissociationIn tribute to the six-year-old girl killed in Gaza.

On its Instagram account, the group condemned a Invasion of campus.

Colombia's presidency began on Monday to suspend Students who refuse to withdraw administratively Village Tents.

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Six months before presidential elections in the polarized country, the student movement has sparked a strong reaction from the political world.

Joe Biden Something must be done Against these Paid protestersRepublican nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday evening on Fox News. We need to put an end to the religious bigotry that prevails in our country todayhe added.

As Columbia University descends into chaos, Joe Biden is absent because he is afraid to deal with the matter., Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson wrote in the evening X. It has long called for the departure of its leader, Minuch Shafiq.

Occupying the university building by force is a wrong approach And no representation Not an example of peaceful protestJohn Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council for Democratic President Joe Biden, stormed off before police intervened.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are demanding that their universities sever ties with sponsors or institutions associated with Israel.

Colombia refuses.

But another elite Northeastern campus, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, announced a deal with students: A possible campus elimination in exchange for a university vote in October. Divestment from “corporations that profit from the execution of genocide in Gaza.”.

Across the United States, images of law enforcement brutally intervening to control riots on campuses have gone viral around the world. Since last weekend, hundreds of students, faculty and activists from around two dozen universities have been arrested, some arrested or detained.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a group of students took it upon themselves to raise a Palestinian flag in the center of campus before police put up American colors again, according to press reports.

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These new pro-Palestinian protests in the United States have reignited an electric debate since October between free speech and accusations of anti-Semitism.

Israel is the country with the largest Jewish population in the world and millions of Arab-Muslim Americans.

The war in the Gaza Strip was sparked by an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israeli soil, which led to the massacre of 1,170 people, mainly civilians, according to an AFP report based on official data.

In response, Israel vowed to destroy the Palestinian Islamist movement and its broad military operation in Gaza killed 34,535 people, mostly civilians, according to Hamas.