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They held homemade placards that called for a cease-fire and compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to the subjugation of Native Americans. These were only some of the most recent of hundreds of pro-Palestinian and anti-war protests across the United States since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Tensions here and abroad have only increased following a deadly rocket blast at a Gaza hospital Tuesday.
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Officers arrested multiple people, including at least one professor, according to local media reports. Brown University, another member of the Ivy League, reached an agreement Tuesday with protesters on its Rhode Island campus. Demonstrators said they would close their encampment in exchange for administrators taking a vote to consider divestment from Israel in October. The compromise appeared to mark the first time a U.S. college has agreed to vote on divestment in the wake of the protests.
University of Minnesota reaches agreement with protesters to end encampment
The debate reached a fever pitch during the presidency of Donald Trump, who labeled independent journalists the “enemy of the people,” but was neutralized in part when Trump and officials in his administration decided not to attend the event. "Everybody deserves health care," Biden said as the protesters yelled that hospitals in Gaza were being bombed and alleged that he was "complicit in genocide." He asked the audience to "be patient with them." Over the weekend, thousands of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators poured on to the campus, and several groups clashed on Sunday. When Meghna Nair, a second-year student at the University of California, Los Angeles, saw a masked group of people headed toward the pro-Palestine encampment on campus late on Tuesday evening, she expected trouble.
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In this case, these U.S. protests come as Congress deliberates over $14 billion in funding to Israel, including for military uses, in addition to the $3.8 billion in U.S. aid the country already receives annually. Demands for a cease-fire in the fighting over Gaza have become a rallying cry at the protests, as have as accusations of genocide against the Palestinian people and anger at the U.S. and President Joe Biden for their support of Israel, according to CCC’s tracking. Pro-Palestinian protesters at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina (UNC) are being detained Tuesday morning after the university sent them a demand to vacate their encampment. The university called in the Portland Police Bureau after campus police were unable to enter the library, she added. Pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses have entered their second week – just as many universities prepare for graduation ceremonies in the coming weeks.
“This is stuff that only happens in movies,” Harris said he thought at the time, describing the experienced of masked counter-protesters marching through campus as surreal. A large group of counter-protesters wearing black with white masks made their way to the encampment and began striking students with planks of wood and pepper spray, Daniel Harris told the Guardian. The Los Angeles police department did not respond to a request for comment on whether they had made any arrests after the attacks, referring all questions to UCLA’s campus police department, calling it “the lead agency” at the scene.
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She later deleted her post after outcry from the local Arab American and Muslim community. In New York City, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams condemned the protest held in Times Square as antisemitic. Protests can be important to understanding shifts in public opinion, or how willing members of the public are to mobilize for a cause.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams said this morning that preliminary numbers indicate that more than 40% of those arrested at student protests at Columbia and CUNY were "not from the school and they were outsiders." The arrests came from at least 60 colleges and institutions participating in protests and encampments in solidarity with the Palestinian cause and calling for their schools to divest from Israel. A video shared by IfNotNow shows protesters continuing to sing while handcuffed and sitting on the sidewalk among a group of police officers.
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"Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide," crowds chanted at one point. Trump did not attend Saturday's dinner and never attended the annual banquet as president. In 2011, he sat in the audience, and glowered through a roasting by then-President Barack Obama of Trump's reality-television celebrity status. Obama's sarcasm then was so scalding that many political watchers linked it to Trump's subsequent decision to run for president in 2016. "We have to take this serious — eight years ago we could have written it off as 'Trump talk' but not after January 6," Biden told the audience, referring to the supporters of Trump who stormed the Capitol after Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election.
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More than 23,800 people in Gaza — nearly two-thirds of whom are women and children — have been killed during Israel’s counterattack campaign, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some protesters hurled water bottles and the sticks broken off their Palestinian flags at the officers, while others tried to climb the fence. A swarm of Pro-Palestinian supporters shouted “f–k Joe Biden” slogans as they nearly ripped down a reinforced fence outside the White House during a charged protest Saturday night. The comments led to a tense exchange at a State Department press briefing on Thursday, where deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel deflected the notion that Netanyahu's words constituted meddling by a foreign leader in U.S. domestic affairs. Patel said he would not equate the Israeli leader's remarks to "interfering," and that "the prime minister is welcome to make whatever comments he'd like."
“I think all of us are in a state of shock,” said Noah, a UCLA law student who only felt comfortable using their first name. But his stance drew ire from Iran whose Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif canceled a trip to the country to meet his counterpart, the Austrian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. In France, thousands were in Paris in support of the Palestinians, despite the Ministry of Interior deeming the planned protest illegal Friday over fears of violence. "I see people who are no longer going to remain silent. People who are fed up, people who are responding to oppression and violence by standing up for themselves," Walla Abu-Eid told Reuters at the demonstration. Bongani Njalo, 33, a student from South Africa, also demonstrating in London, said that he took "some time away from my studies to be here, as I thought my silence would make me complicit in the violence."
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"Hamas' disapproval, after their acts of 'unadulterated evil'—which they've pledged to repeat "again and again"—is a testament to President Biden's moral clarity," he added. "President Biden has stood against Antisemitism his entire life. And he will never stop. That's why he is carrying out the first-ever national strategy to combat Antisemitism." "Hamas is a vicious terrorist organization that has spent decades murdering innocents," Bates told Newsweek. "Hamas perpetrated the deadliest massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, which makes them the least credible voice that exists on this subject."
Israel quickly cut off the flow of food, fuel and water to the Gaza Strip after the deadly surprise attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 people. It's estimated that more than 2,800 Palestinians have been killed in retaliatory attacks and another 1,200 are missing — buried under rubble dead or alive. He flew to the embattled country Tuesday to begin a series of talks with Israeli, Jordanian, Egyptian and Palestinian leaders.
The gathering is being branded as an effort to “shut down” the dinner, according to a social media post announcing the demonstration. According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. "Shame on you!" protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses holding clutch purses as guests hurried inside for the dinner.
He has previously written for International Business Times, the New York Post, the Daily Star (Lebanon) and Staten Island Advance. His works have been cited in more than 1,700 academic papers, government reports, books, news articles and other forms of research and media from across the globe. He has contributed analysis to a number of international outlets and has participated in Track II diplomacy related to the Middle East as well as in fellowships at The Korea Society and Foreign Press Center Japan. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also stated that "more needs to be done" to temper the swelling U.S. protest movement, through which he argued that "Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities" and "call for the annihilation of Israel."
This current wave of protests on behalf of Palestinians represents some of the largest on this issue in the United States, where, historically, most Palestinian solidarity activism has existed among some minority communities, university campuses and the political fringe. At Saturday's rally, protesters held a moment of silence for those killed in Israel's response offensive. More than 9,480 Palestinians have been killed by Israel's military attacks over the last four weeks, according to Gaza's health ministry. “It’s been absolute chaos and complete division,” said Logan Cyr, a UCLA law student.
As they met Wednesday, Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that intelligence from the Department of Defense showed it was not likely a strike by the Israeli military and that it "appears as though it was done by the other team, not you." "Let me be clear. If Hamas diverts or steals the assistance, they will have demonstrated once again that they have no concern for the welfare of the Palestinian people," Biden said. President Biden last month asked Congress for more than $14 billion in military aid for Israel. "I was raised to believe that the United States condemned atrocities, war crimes, heinous government acts wherever they saw them. Regardless of who committed them," he said.
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