Some one hundred pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested this Saturday morning when the camp set up on a Northeastern University campus in the city of Boston in the United States, was evacuated by the police, in the middle of a wave of protests against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
“As part of this evacuation, approximately 100 people were arrested by the police. Students who presented their Northeastern University ID were released (…) Those who refused to prove their affiliation were arrested,” the university clarified in the statement. social network X, adding that on Friday night they had uttered “violent anti-Semitic insults.”
Students from universities such as Harvard, MIT or Emerson, who have established camps in favor of Palestine, They have been demanding a ceasefire in Gaza for weeks.
Students from universities such as Harvard, MIT and Emerson have established pro-Palestinian camps demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
Last Thursday, riot police charged against Emerson College protesters – who had set up camp on a central Boston street – They dismantled the concentration and arrested 108 students some of the highest numbers of arrests on a campus of the many across the United States that have recorded mobilizations.
On Monday night, riot police at New York University (NYU) detained several pro-Palestinian protesters after university officials accused them of behaving in a “disorderly, disruptive and antagonistic” manner. .
Also at Yale University, in northern New York, there were 47 detainees on Monday morning.
The pro-Palestine camps have spread to different universities in Boston, such as Tuft University, and in Cambridge, such as the prestigious Harvard, where the administration has not taken action against the protesters, but has closed access to the campus to anyone without identification. the institution.
From camps at universities across the country, students are asking for a definitive ceasefire, for these institutions to stop accepting funds from donors from Israel, and for Washington to stop aid to the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.