Late on Tuesday evening the head of Columbia University sent in the New York Police Department to violently clear an occupation of university buildings where students were protesting US support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This is the latest twist in an unprecedented rise in student demonstrations across American universities in support of justice in Palestine and demanding an end to the Israeli occupation.
The wave of student protests is taking place in prestigious American universities including Columbia, Brown, Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, University of Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, and many others across the country. ….more
