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Round up of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses​

Reuters news agency reports that around 550 arrests have been made in the last week across major US universities as police crackdown on peaceful protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Here’s what we know:
Columbia University
Police arrested more than 100 protesters when they tried to clear a Gaza solidarity encampment last week.
University of Southern California
More than 90 people were arrested on Wednesday night for alleged trespassing.
University of Texas at Austin
The campus was calmer on Thursday, a day after police arrested dozens of students.
George Washington University
About 50 students set up a tent encampment on Thursday.
Harvard University
The university locked most gates into its famous Harvard Yard this week but a camp with still set up.
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
The university said protesters continue to occupy two buildings on campus.
Emerson College
Boston police said on Thursday that 108 people were arrested at an encampment.
New York University
Police said 133 protesters had been taken into custody on Wednesday.
Emory University
Police dismantled a camp on Thursday morning. The Associated Press news agency counted at least 17 people detained.
Northwestern University
Administrators changed the student code of conduct on Thursday to bar tents on its campus as student activists set up an encampment. No arrests have been reported yet. [Interesting that the Code of Conduct should be fluid - like something out of Harry Potter]
Yale University
Protests continued Thursday after Monday’s arrest of 48 people.
Fashion Institute of Technology
Protesters set up tents and occupied a building on Thursday at the institute, part of the State University of New York system.
City College of New York
Police and campus security confronted protesters but failed to clear their encampment on Thursday.
Indiana University Bloomington
Police made a number of arrests on Thursday afternoon.
Michigan State University East Lansing Campus
Nearly 30 tents were set up on Thursday afternoon.

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gavreid said:

Round up of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses​

Reuters news agency reports that around 550 arrests have been made in the last week across major US universities as police crackdown on peaceful protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Here’s what we know:
Columbia University
Police arrested more than 100 protesters when they tried to clear a Gaza solidarity encampment last week.
University of Southern California
More than 90 people were arrested on Wednesday night for alleged trespassing.
University of Texas at Austin
The campus was calmer on Thursday, a day after police arrested dozens of students.
George Washington University
About 50 students set up a tent encampment on Thursday.
Harvard University
The university locked most gates into its famous Harvard Yard this week but a camp with still set up.
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
The university said protesters continue to occupy two buildings on campus.
Emerson College
Boston police said on Thursday that 108 people were arrested at an encampment.
New York University
Police said 133 protesters had been taken into custody on Wednesday.
Emory University
Police dismantled a camp on Thursday morning. The Associated Press news agency counted at least 17 people detained.
Northwestern University
Administrators changed the student code of conduct on Thursday to bar tents on its campus as student activists set up an encampment. No arrests have been reported yet. [Interesting that the Code of conduct should fluid like something out of Harry Potter]
Yale University
Protests continued Thursday after Monday’s arrest of 48 people.
Fashion Institute of Technology
Protesters set up tents and occupied a building on Thursday at the institute, part of the State University of New York system.
City College of New York
Police and campus security confronted protesters but failed to clear their encampment on Thursday.
Indiana University Bloomington
Police made a number of arrests on Thursday afternoon.
Michigan State University East Lansing Campus
Nearly 30 tents were set up on Thursday afternoon.

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Makes the Moscow City Police look work shy.
 
It's a real "masks off" moment in the US isn't it?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1783684235938894086

A respected academic getting the treatment routinely meted out to blacks and lefties, just for stepping one-inch out of line.

Defence of a far-right genocidal state in the Middle East requires brutal oppression at home.

Much talk of voting Biden to save US democracy, but what is there left to save, at this point?
 
That is Brutal. American law enforcement is always shoot fist. If this is the reaction to a student protest then there is no hope. And as for calling the professor a fascist !!!. Democracy in the US is dead.
 
droodzilla said:
It's a real "masks off" moment in the US isn't it?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1783684235938894086

A respected academic getting the treatment routinely meted out to blacks and lefties, just for stepping one-inch out of line.

Defence of a far-right genocidal state in the Middle East requires brutal oppression at home.

Much talk of voting Biden to save US democracy, but what is there left to save, at this point?
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Absolutely f*cking outrageous.
 
droodzilla said:
It's a real "masks off" moment in the US isn't it?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1783684235938894086

A respected academic getting the treatment routinely meted out to blacks and lefties, just for stepping one-inch out of line.

Defence of a far-right genocidal state in the Middle East requires brutal oppression at home.

Much talk of voting Biden to save US democracy, but what is there left to save, at this point?
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Holy shit. Land of the free eh?
 
Former top judge Lord Sumption and ex-national security advisor Lord Ricketts call for the suspension of UK arms exports to Israel. The pair spoke this week to parliament's business and trade committee. Other witnesses included Colonel Richard Kemp, a former British soldier who supports the IDF

 
droodzilla said:
It's a real "masks off" moment in the US isn't it?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1783684235938894086

A respected academic getting the treatment routinely meted out to blacks and lefties, just for stepping one-inch out of line.

Defence of a far-right genocidal state in the Middle East requires brutal oppression at home.

Much talk of voting Biden to save US democracy, but what is there left to save, at this point?
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Bad enough but let's not forget what US law enforcement is capable off when it comes to suppression of student protest.
 
PaulMB said:
In Netanyahu's vision of things you are perfectly right. But I'll give an example of how anti-Israeli feeling has become anti-semitic:

Today was a national holiday in Italy, "Giornata della Liberazione." This celebrates April 25, 1945, when Italy was liberated from German occupation and its Italian Fascist allies. By tradition, it is also the annual holiday that celebrates "anti-Fascism" as the basis of Italy's subsequent democracy. There are rallies and speeches all over the country, programmes on TV, and so on.
Among those that always take part are the Partisan's Association (by now with very few surviving actual partisans), the trades unions, the political party representatives, and a delegation that commemorates the role of the Jewish Brigade in the liberation of Italy.
Today, the Jewish Brigade contingent was jostled and verbally abused by people with Palestinian flags, and would have been physically attacked but for the police.
Now, the Jewish Brigade fought in north Africa and Italy, before the State of Israel even existed.
The "free Palestine" group should therefore have no bone to pick with them. Also, what does "free-Palestine" have to do with the liberation of Italy in 1945? They came specifically to attack the Jewish Brigade, because it is called "Jewish."
Is this not anti-semitism?
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The Jewish Brigade was disbanded in 1946, that puts the youngest surviving veterans/around 96 years of age.....perhaps people objected to the zionist flag?
 
Similar repression on display in Germany...

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Police remove activists of a pro-Palestinian protest camp near the German chancellery in Berlin [Annegret Hilse/Reuters]

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UN official: it could take 14 years to clear Gaza Strip of rubble and unexploded bombs​

The vast amount of rubble including unexploded ordnance left by Israel’s devastating war in the Gaza Strip could take about 14 years to remove, a United Nations official said on Friday.

Reuters reports Pehr Lodhammar, senior officer at the UN mine action service (Unmas), told a briefing in Geneva that the war had left an estimated 37 million tons of debris in the widely urbanised, densely populated territory.

He said that although it was impossible to determine the exact number of unexploded ordnance found in Gaza, it was projected that it could take 14 years under certain conditions to clear debris, including rubble from destroyed buildings.

“We know that typically there’s a failure rate of at least 10% of land service ammunition that is being fired and fails to function,” he said. “We’re talking about 14 years of work with 100 trucks.”

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War has left estimated 37m tons of debris in area, requiring years of work with ‘100 trucks’, says Pehr Lodhammar
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The arrest and interrogation of a leading Palestinian legal scholar based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem marks a new threat to civil liberties in Israel, her legal team and employer have said.

Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was detained by police on the afternoon of 17 April over comments made on a podcast more than a month earlier and held overnight in conditions her lawyers described as “terrible” and designed to humiliate.

“This case is unique,” said Hassan Jabareen, her lawyer and the director of the human rights organisation Adalah. “This is not only about one professor, it could be a [precedent] for any academic who goes against the consensus in wartime.”

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Middle East crisis live: it could take 14 years to clear Gaza Strip of rubble and unexploded bombs, says UN official

War has left estimated 37m tons of debris in area, requiring years of work with ‘100 trucks’, says Pehr Lodhammar
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A group of people protesting against the war in Gaza have set up a camp outside the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh. They accused the UK and Scottish governments of “complicity” in what they called the “ongoing genocide” in the territory.

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Middle East crisis live: it could take 14 years to clear Gaza Strip of rubble and unexploded bombs, says UN official

War has left estimated 37m tons of debris in area, requiring years of work with ‘100 trucks’, says Pehr Lodhammar
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