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“Burn Tel Aviv to the ground”: Pro-Palestinian protest continues at major US university

"Burn Tel Aviv to the ground": Pro-Palestinian protest continues at major US university

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Apr 22, 2024 12:36 GMT

Last week more than 100 people were arrested in New York for protesting against Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Calls for violence against Israel in protest that has been taking place since last week on the campus of Columbia University in New York continued to spread on social networks on Sunday.

In the images Protesters can be seen chanting slogans in support of the Palestinian Hamas movement and urging decisive action against Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

“We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!“You can hear it in the chants.”[Las Brigadas] al Qassam make us proud. Eliminate another soldier [israelí]” and “Hamas, we love you. We also support their rockets,” are some of the exclamations.

Likewise, in the networks circulate recordings in which protesters address Israelis in an insulting manner. “Go back to Europe”, “they have no culture”, “the only thing they do is colonize”, “stop killing children”“go back to Poland”, shout the pro-Palestinian activists.

Last Thursday, during the protests 108 people were arrested and accused of trespassing. The students who participated in the demonstration will be suspended, advertisement the president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik.

For his part, US President Joe Biden criticized the “alarming” anti-Semitism in American universities. “This blatant anti-Semitism is reprehensible and dangerousand has absolutely no place on college campuses or anywhere in our country,” said it's a statement. “We must denounce the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in our schools, communities and online. Silence is complicity,” he added.

Meanwhile, numerous universities in the US and other countries have expressed your solidarity with the Columbia protesters. Among them are Yale and Harvard universities, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the University of Melbourne (Australia), Bard College in Berlin (Germany) and other institutions.



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