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Police disperse sit-in at Dutch university
Footage shared online shows police starting to disperse the student sit-in in solidarity with Gaza at the University of Amsterdam. The footage shows students forming a human barrier and raising pictures of children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza as police enter the campus to disperse them.
Last week, police arrested about 140 activists as they broke up a similar pro-Palestinian encampment at the university.
Union for California graduate workers calls strike over treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters
Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which represents 48,000 graduate workers throughout the California university system, has organised a series of strikes to protest the treatment of demonstrators calling for ceasefire in Gaza.
The union called on graduate workers at the University of California (UC) at Santa Cruz to walk off the job on Monday, saying others in the system should stand ready for more strikes to be announced.
“For many months, workers across California have protested the death, destruction and human suffering in Gaza,” Rafael Jaime, president of UAW 4811, said in a video message.
“Over the last two weeks, UC has allowed appalling violence and intimidation against members of our academic community who exercised their right to protest,” said Douglas Grion Filho, another union representative.
International students risk immigration status to engage in Gaza protests
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/international-students-risk-immigration-status-to-engage-in-gaza-protests
New York City – Mahmoud Khalil faced a dilemma common to international students: He was in the United States on an F-1 student visa. His ability to stay in the country hinged on his continued enrollment as a full-time student.
But participating in a protest – including the encampment that cropped up on Columbia’s lawn last month supporting an end to the Gaza war – meant risking suspension and other punishments that could endanger his enrollment status.
The misogyny of the anti-protest
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/17/the-misogyny-of-the-anti-protest
“Fat”, “ugly”, and “bitch” are just a few of the invectives hurled at female antiwar demonstrators by “counter-protesters” – a name the press has given to pro-Israel activists.
This is more than good old-fashioned sexism rearing in the heat of the moment. The female antiwar protesters have broken the unwritten rules of being a woman in the United States. They are neither on display for men nor acting like men.
Law enforcement officers arrest a protester at the University of California, Los Angeles, during a pro-Palestine protest
