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Police use tasers, pepper spray at Emory University pro-Palestine demonstration
Video footage, verified by Al Jazeera, shows police using pepper spray and Tasers against students at a demonstration in support of Palestine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Activists on the ground say tear gas was also employed.
Police detain pro-Palestinian student demonstrators in Atlanta, US
Authorities detain protesters on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Thursday, April 25
Georgia State Patrol officers detain a demonstrator on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Thursday, April 25
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Georgia State Patrol officers detain a protester on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration Thursday, April 25, 2024
Authorities detain a protester on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Thursday, April 25
Columbia University is facing pressure from students and donors amid protests
It’s a big day here at Columbia. Of course, this is where this protest movement started. It’s been an epicentre of the American student protest movement since the Vietnam War protests back in 1968 when the same thing happened: A bunch of students were cleared out.
But what’s happening now is that these students are negotiating with the management of this private university. They have a midnight deadline tonight, which is about 4am GMT, to clear out of this central space in the school where they camped out, and they put up tents.
The talks continued while they asked for a number of things; they want the university to disclose its investments and then to divest any investments in Israel or in any investments that continue to help the war efforts, such as arms makers, and they want amnesty for all the students who have been protesting.
So they’re protesting against the Gaza war, but they’re also protesting against against their own institutions.
They’re trying to put pressure on the university, but other people are also putting pressure on those universities. Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots [American] football team, has decided to stop donating to Columbia University. He’s a billionaire, and that’s putting pressure on the university from another side.
So, the university president here is trying to thread the needle between those two groups and satisfy the students while also satisfying other people who are concerned about what they’re describing as anti-Semitism.
Pro-Palestine student demonstrators in Washington, DC say they are ‘facing repression’ from their universities
Students from several universities in the Washington Metropolitan Area have joined forces to demand their schools cut ties to Israel and for an end to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Yasmine, a student leading the protests that have grown into an encampment, says they are calling for their universities to “divest from any companies that sell weapons or technology” to Israel. They are also calling on their universities to drop all charges against students “who spoke up or students who are pro-Palestine”, Yasmine told Al Jazeera.
“Many of us are … facing repression and charges and hearings from our universities for simply protesting,” she said. Many of the protesters, she added, wear masks because of the “heavy targeting and the heavy doxing … against us”.
Students do expect the police to intervene later today in a bid to break up the gathering, according to Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane, reporting from Washington, DC.
