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A helicopter hovered overhead throughout the morning while groups of security guards and law enforcement stood around the sectioned off encampment. Capitol Police, which tightened security in advance of the protests said an unspecified amount of demonstrators were arrested, including at least three on charges of assaulting a police officer. Live video images showed police in riot gear marching on the campus in upper Manhattan, the focal point of the nationwide student protests. Officers used an armoured vehicle with a bridging mechanism to gain entry to the second floor of the building.
Colleges Need to Make Own Decisions About Pro-Palestinian Protests: White House
"We, of course, support the right of anybody to peacefully protest, to demonstration, to make their voices heard, to express themselves in a peaceful and non-violent way," Patel said. "However, we also believe that harmful rhetoric, rhetoric be it rooted in antisemitism or Islamophobia, is incredibly problematic and needs to be condemned and called out against." They chanted "peaceful protest" and "shame on you, LAPD" as police officers moved into the encampment area.
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The discontent has not been limited to Democratic politicians – disagreements within left-wing organizations have also been played out in public. Others have defended the organization’s response and vowed to continue solidarity with Palestinians. A similar shift was seen in 2020, when the protests over George Floyd’s murder broadened the group mobilizing around police brutality against Black people, Ufelder said.
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Hamas' attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of over 1,400 Israelis, AP added, as well as roughly 155 people being taken hostage by the militant group. U.S. officials have said that at least 30 U.S. citizens were killed in the assault and another 13 remain unaccounted for. Daily Caller reporter Arjun Singh reported on X that protesters were arrested after having "rushed the gate of The White House." Newsweek has not been able to confirm which events led up to the detainment.
Biden's speech in North Carolina centered on his administration's work to preserve and expand health care, hinging on the 14th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's being signed into law. Biden, who was vice president when Congress passed the ACA, has made preserving access to health care a central part of his re-election bid. Biden, who has been pressed by many in his party to address humanitarian needs more forcefully, has increased political pressure on Israel's government to allow more aid in Gaza, though he has not called for cutting off U.S. weapon sales to Israel. President Joe Biden responded to pro-Palestinian protesters who interrupted his health care speech Tuesday, saying, "They have a point." Nearly 5,000 people on both sides of the bloody conflict have died, including 30 Americans, according to officials. Biden visited Israel earlier in the day Wednesday, affirming US support for the Jewish state and warning against becoming too consumed with rage over the deadly surprise Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Before officers arrived at Columbia, the White House condemned the standoffs there and at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, where protesters had occupied two buildings for more than a week until officers with batons intervened early Tuesday. Of those arrested, 13 are students, one is a faculty member and 18 are not students, the university said in a statement. After a couple of hours of scuffles between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators at UCLA, police wearing helmets and face shields formed lines and slowly separated the groups, quelling the violence.
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The protesters will criticize Biden for his support for Israel in its war in Gaza and the U.S. news media’s coverage of it, according to organizers. The Los Angeles police department referred questions about the attack to UCLA’s campus police, which a spokesperson said was the “lead agency” in the incident. UCLA’s chancellor said the university is “gathering information” about the attack and its investigation may lead to “arrests, expulsions and dismissals”.
Images or statements that come out of protests and travel across platforms can push the message beyond its original context, statements that might have been on the fringe of a protest become emblematic of the demonstration. “I would say that, until recently, pro-Palestine protests have definitely been confined to college campuses and Arab and Muslim communities. Most leftists I know, unless they were Jewish or Arab, tended to shy away from the issue, feeling like it was either too complicated or too controversial to take a public stand on. According to the latest CCC update on Nov. 28, there have been more than 1,869 Palestinian solidarity protests in the U.S. since Oct. 7, involving — by its count — hundreds of thousands of people.
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The gathering dwarfed a pro-Israel protest held in the same area several days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and abducting more than 200. The Palestinian solidarity protests have not been supported publicly by the vast majority of politicians, including from the Democratic Party, the CCC noted — writing that elected officials had only appeared at about 1 percent of Palestinian protests. The CCC said that about one in four pro-Israel demonstrations were attended by an elected official. Though larger than past Palestinian solidarity protests, they still do not necessarily reflect the views of most Americans on Israel.
Police in riot gear have begun moving in and pulling down boards that pro-Palestinian protesters had used to fortify their encampment on the UCLA campus. "We see prominent academic institutions, halls of history, culture, and education contaminated by hatred and antisemitism fueled by arrogance and ignorance, and driven by moral failings and disinformation," Herzog said in a video message. Protesters can be seen trying to stop officers from entering, as one shouts for them to get "back." A number of protesters can be seen detained on the nearby lawn, their hands in zip ties and some wearing pajamas. Police officers forcefully enter an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles this morning.
An order for protesters to leave the area or face arrest was repeated over a loudspeaker. UCLA told all students that classes today and tomorrow will be remote learning only, because of the "EMERGENCY ON-CAMPUS." Officers had spent at least 30 minutes in a tense standoff with a crowd that had turned up to support the encampment, which was blocking a main stairway into the Royce Quad where the encampment has been for days. At 3 a.m., those blocking the stairs were seen walking away with their hands raised. "I am an English major. Please don't fail us. Don't fail us," he says as he is taken away by officers. Police began an operation to clear Portland State University's Millar Library, which has been occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters since Monday.
What was once a mini village of tents, gazebos and signs protesting against Israel's war in Gaza was just a pile of rubble and debris — discarded tents and sleeping bags strewn across the school's Royce Quad, which had been protesters' home for more than a week. He made the comments on NPR's "Morning Edition" to host Michel Martin — the first time officials have shared a number following the mayor's claim yesterday that "outside agitators" were involved in the protests at Columbia. So far, there have been 1,900 arrests at college protests across the country, according to an NBC News tally. In another video posted by Los Angeles-based KNX News, correspondent Craig Fiegener said that the protest had blocked off the entrance that is typically utilized by members of the media to get into the White House complex.
Footage showed mostly male counter-demonstrators, many of them masked and some apparently older than the students. “I saw women as young as 18 and 19 punched in the face by 25- or 30-year-old men,” Aiden Doyle, a member of the student encampment, said at a student press conference on Wednesday. “The limited and delayed campus law enforcement response at UCLA last night was unacceptable – and it demands answers,” the office of the California governor, Gavin Newsom, said in a statement. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, police took down all but one tent at an encampment where officers with shields shoved protesters, resulting in a scrum and at least a dozen arrests. Four officers were injured, including a state trooper who was hit in the head with a skateboard, according to University of Wisconsin police spokesperson Marc Lovicott. The spokesperson also said the school's president "requested a detailed accounting from the campus about what transpired in the early morning hours today."
CBS Boston reports that Tufts University is now warning students to shut down their pro-Palestinian encampment or face consequences. Those who don't leave could be suspended or banned from graduation ceremonies, the school says. Security was tightened Tuesday at the campus after officials said there were "physical altercations" between factions of protesters. The clashes at UCLA took place around a tent encampment built by pro-Palestinian protesters, who erected barricades and plywood for protection — while counter-protesters tried to pull them down. People threw chairs and at one point a group piled on a person who lay on the ground, kicking and beating them with sticks until others pulled them out of the scrum. "The established encampment is unlawful and violates university policy," the university wrote in a statement Wednesday evening.
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