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SvennoJ on 26 April 2024
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Pro-Palestine protests in Germany, Yemen, Jordan, France


A protester sitting on the ground waves a Palestinian flag as police officers try to dismantle a pro-Palestine protest camp in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, April 26


Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, gather around a Palestinian flag during a rally to show support to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Sanaa, Yemen on April 26


Demonstrators carry flags and banners during a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza in Amman, Jordan, April 26


Young people take part in the occupation of a building of Sciences Po university in Paris and block the entry in support of Palestinians in Gaza


More universities in New York build encampments for Gaza

Not only across the country have other schools followed the example of Columbia University and continue to, but here in New York City as well.

At least four college campuses now have encampments or demonstrations of some sort. There’s NYU [New York University] and Columbia, but now the Fashion Institute of Technology in downtown Manhattan saw a large group of students storm one of their main buildings and set up an encampment there, which is ongoing this morning.

The City University of New York as well, a very different school than Columbia. Columbia is considered an elite Ivy League institution with a lot of history, but City University has a lot of students who maybe wouldn’t have been able to afford a private university.


With eyes on US college campuses, students stress: ‘Gaza is why we’re here’

Global attention has turned to universities across the United States, where students have erected encampments to demand action to end Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. The growing protests have taken root on the campuses of some of the country’s top academic institutions, including Columbia and Harvard.

And over the past weeks, they have spurred heated debates around freedom of speech, Palestinian solidarity activism in the US, and the use of force to disperse student protesters, among other issues.

But the students at the heart of the movement say the reason they began their demonstrations – the pressing need to end Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza – risks being lost amid a cacophony of voices and distractions.

“Gaza is why we’re here. Gaza is why we’re doing this,” said Rue, a student at The New School in New York City who asked to only be identified by her first name due to a fear of reprisals.



GW University administrators’ claim of protest ‘disruption’ rings hollow

Here at the protest at George Washington University, there is a great deal of outrage, not just at what is happening in Gaza, but at the reaction from university authorities.

We’ve just got another note from George Washington University, which says that the individuals who remain in the university yard in any attempt to protest are trespassing on private property – that GW will pursue disciplinary actions against students involved in these unauthorised demonstrations that continue to disrupt university operations.

But there’s no real disruption going on. This is a very clearly demarcated area away from the main thoroughfare. Everyone’s walking around. Traffic is moving freely. And yet this is how it’s being characterised by the management.

 

300 Yale faculty call on administration to drop protest charges

The letter to university administration comes after 48 protesters were arrested earlier this week. That came after administrators called in the local police.

In the letter, the faculty said the decision “contradicts the institution’s commitment to uphold free assembly, speech and expression”. They also noted that protests on other subjects have been tolerated in the past.

“We demand that the University administration call to drop all charges against the 48 protesters, that no further disciplinary action be taken against those who were arrested, and implore Yale to never again facilitate the arrest of protesters for acts of peaceable speech and assembly on campus,” they wrote.