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The protesting students have been demanding that their schools stop doing business with Israel, or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.

US colleges come to a standstill as pro-Palestine protests rage 

The protesting students have been demanding that their schools stop doing business with Israel, or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.

Students at a growing number of US colleges are gathering in protest encampments with a unified demand of their schools: stop doing business with Israel -- or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.
The demand has its roots in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a decades-old campaign against Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. The movement has taken on new strength as the Israel-Hamas war surpasses the six-month mark and stories of suffering in Gaza have sparked international calls for a cease-fire.
Inspired by ongoing protests and the arrests last week of more than 100 students at Columbia University, students from Massachusetts to California are now gathering by the hundreds on campuses, setting up tent camps and pledging to stay put until their demands are met.
"We want to be visible," said Columbia protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who noted that students at the university have been pushing for divestment from Israel since 2002. "The university should do something about what we are asking for, about the genocide that is happening in Gaza. They should stop investing in this genocide."
Campus protests began after Hamas' deadly October 7 attack on southern Israel, when militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages. During the ensuing war, Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the local health ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and noncombatants but says at least two-thirds of the dead are children and women.
<h2>WHAT DO THE STUDENTS WANT TO SEE HAPPEN? </h2>
The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing Israel's military efforts in Gaza -- and in some cases, from Israel itself.
Protests on many campuses have been orchestrated by coalitions of student groups, often including local chapters of organisations, such as Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. They are banding together as umbrella groups, such as MIT's Coalition Against Apartheid and the University of Michigan's Tahrir Coalition.
The groups largely act independently, though there has been some coordination. After students at Columbia formed their encampment last week, they held a phone call with about 200 other people interested in starting their own camps. But mostly it has happened spontaneously, with little collaboration between campuses, organisers said.
The demands vary from campus to campus. Among them:
<ul>
<li>Stop doing business with military weapons manufacturers that are supplying arms to Israel.</li>
<li>Stop accepting research money from Israel for projects that aid the country's military efforts.</li>
<li>Stop investing college endowments with money managers who profit from Israeli companies or contractors.</li>
<li>Be more transparent about what money is received from Israel and what it is used for.</li>
</ul>
Student governments at some colleges in recent weeks have passed resolutions calling for an end to investments and academic partnerships with Israel. Such bills were passed by student bodies at Columbia, Harvard Law, Rutgers and American University.
<h2>HOW ARE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES RESPONDING? </h2>
Officials at several universities say they want to have a conversation with students and honour their right to protest. But they also are echoing the concerns of many Jewish students that some of the demonstrators' words and actions amount to antisemitism -- and they say such behaviour will not be tolerated.
Sylvia Burwell, president of American University, rejected a resolution from the undergraduate senate to end investments and partnerships with Israel.
"Such actions threaten academic freedom, the respectful free expression of ideas and views, and the values of inclusion and belonging that are central to our community," Burwell said in a statement.
Burwell cited the university's "longstanding position" against the decades-old BDS movement.
Protesters in the movement have drawn parallels between Israel's policy in Gaza -- a tiny strip of land tucked between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to about 2.3 million (23 lakh) Palestinians -- to apartheid in South Africa. Israel imposed an indefinite blockade of Gaza after Hamas seized control of the strip in 2007.
Opponents of BDS say its message veers into antisemitism. In the past decade alone, more than 30 states have enacted laws or directives blocking agencies from hiring companies that support the movement. Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called it a "pernicious threat" in 2019, saying it fuelled bias against Jews on US campuses.
Asked this week whether he condemned "the antisemitic protests", President Joe Biden said he did. "I also condemn those who do not understand what is going on with the Palestinians," Biden said after an Earth Day event on Monday.
At Yale, where dozens of student protesters were arrested on Monday, President Peter Salovey noted in a message to campus that, after hearing from students, the university's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility had recommended against divesting from military weapons manufacturers.
President Minouche Shafik at Columbia said there should be "serious conversations" about how the university can help in the Middle East. But "we cannot have one group dictate terms", she said in a statement on Monday.

The tensions deepened the rift between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students over Israel's continued assault on Gaza. 

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia

The tensions deepened the rift between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students over Israel's continued assault on Gaza.&nbsp;

Columbia cancelled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at Yale and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on Monday as some of the most prestigious US universities sought to diffuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas.
The various actions followed the arrest last week of more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia's green, as schools struggle with where to draw the line between allowing free expression while maintaining a safe and inclusive campus.
In addition to the demonstrations at the Ivy League schools, pro-Palestinian encampments have sprouted up on other campuses, including at the University of Michigan, New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The protests have pitted students against one another, with pro-Palestinian students demanding that their schools condemn Israel's assault on Gaza and divest from companies that sell weapons to Israel. Some Jewish students, meanwhile, say much of the criticism of Israel has veered into antisemitism and made them feel unsafe, and they point out that Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the group's October 7 invasion.
Tensions remained high Monday at Columbia in New York City, where the campus gates were locked to anyone without a school ID and where protests broke out both on campus and outside.
US Rep. Kathy Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina who was visiting Columbia with three other Jewish members of Congress, told reporters after meeting with students from the Jewish Law Students Association that there was "an enormous encampment of people" who had taken up about a third of the green.
"We saw signs indicating that Israel should be destroyed," she said after leaving the Morningside Heights campus.
A woman inside the campus gates led about two dozen protesters on the street outside in a chant of, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" -- a charged phrase that can mean vastly different things to different groups. Meanwhile, a small group of pro-Israel counter-demonstrators protested nearby.
University President Minouche Shafik said in a message to the school community on Monday that she was "deeply saddened" by what was happening on campus.
"To deescalate the rancour and give us all a chance to consider next steps, I am announcing that all classes will be held virtually on Monday," Shafik wrote, noting that students who do not live on campus should stay away.
Robert Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots football team and funded the Kraft Centre for Jewish Student Life across from Columbia's campus, said he was suspending donations to the university.
"I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken," he said in a statement.
Protests have roiled many college campuses since Hamas' deadly attack on southern Israel, when militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages. During the ensuing war, Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the local health ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants but says at least two-thirds of the dead are children and women.
Prahlad Iyengar, an MIT graduate student studying electrical engineering, was among about two dozen students who set up a tent encampment on the school's Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus Sunday evening. They are calling for a cease-fire and are protesting what they describe as the MIT's "complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza", he said.
"MIT has not even called for a cease-fire, and that is a demand we have for sure," Iyengar said.
He also said the MIT has been sending out confusing rules about protests.
"We are out here to demonstrate that we reserve the right to protest. It is an essential part of living on a college campus," Iyengar said.
On Sunday, Elie Buechler, a rabbi for the Orthodox Union's Jewish Learning Initiative at Columbia, sent a WhatsApp message to nearly 300 Jewish students recommending they go home until it is safer for them on campus.
The latest developments came ahead of the Monday evening start of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
Nicholas Baum, a 19-year-old Jewish freshman who lives in a Jewish theological seminary building two blocks from Columbia's campus, said protesters over the weekend were "calling for Hamas to blow away Tel Aviv and Israel". He said some of the protesters shouting antisemitic slurs were not students.
"Jews are scared at Columbia. It is as simple as that. There has been so much vilification of Zionism, and it has spilled over into the vilification of Judaism,&rdquo; he said.
The protest encampment sprung up at Columbia on Wednesday, the same day that Shafik faced bruising criticism at a congressional hearing from Republicans who said she had not done enough to fight antisemitism. Two other Ivy League presidents resigned months ago following widely-criticised testimony they gave to the same committee.
In her statement on Monday, Shafik said the Middle East conflict is terrible and that she understands that many are experiencing deep moral distress.
"But we cannot have one group dictate terms and attempt to disrupt important milestones like graduation to advance their point of view," Shafik wrote.
Over the coming days, a working group of deans, school administrators and faculty will try to find a resolution to the university crisis, noted Shafik, who did not say when in-person classes would resume.
US House Republicans from New York urged Shafik to resign, saying in a letter on Monday that she had failed to provide a safe learning environment in recent days as "anarchy has engulfed the campus".
In Massachusetts, a sign said Harvard Yard was closed to the public on Monday. It said structures, including tents and tables, were only allowed into the yard with prior permission. "Students violating these policies are subject to disciplinary action," the sign said. Security guards were checking people for school IDs.
At Yale, police officers arrested about 45 protesters and charged them with misdemeanour trespassing, said Officer Christian Bruckhart, a New Haven police spokesperson. All were being released on promises to appear in court later, he said.
Protesters set up tents on Beinecke Plaza on Friday and demonstrated over the weekend, calling on Yale to end any investments in defence companies that do business with Israel.
Nadine Cubeisy, a Yale student and one of the protest's organisers, said it was disturbing that "this university that I am going to, that I contribute to and that my friends give money to is using that money to fund violence".
In a statement to the campus community on Sunday, Yale President Peter Salovey said university officials had spoken to the student protesters multiple times about the school's policies and guidelines, including those regarding speech and allowing access to campus spaces.
School officials said they spoke with protesters over several hours and gave them until the end of the weekend to leave Beinecke Plaza. The said they again warned protesters on Monday morning and told them that they could face arrest and discipline, including suspension, before police moved in.
A large group of demonstrators regathered after Monday's arrests at Yale and blocked a street near the campus, said Bruckhart. There were no reports of any violence or injuries.
Last week, the University of Southern California took the unusual step of cancelling a planned commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian, who had publicly supported Palestinians. The university cited security concerns in a decision that was praised by some pro-Israel groups but criticised by free-speech advocates.
Several students at Columbia and its sister school, Barnard College, said they were suspended for taking part in last week's protests, including Barnard student Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Democratic US Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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Videos of the protest went viral on social media as hundreds of anti-Israeli protesters flocked to Lower Manhattan.

'Death to America' chants raised in massive pro-Palestine protest in New York 

Videos of the protest went viral on social media as hundreds of anti-Israeli protesters flocked to Lower Manhattan.

A major pro-Palestine protest erupted in New York on April 15, with supporters chanting death to America and burning the American flag outside the Brooklyn Borough Hall.
Videos of the protest went viral on social media as hundreds of anti-Israeli protesters flocked to Lower Manhattan.
The agitators then swarmed to Brooklyn Bridge causing havoc and forcing the officials to temporarily shut down both lanes of the bridge.
Dozens of people were arrested on the bridge as a Department of Correction bus waited at the bottom of the Brooklyn side of the bridge to transport detainees.
Similar protests were held across the United States and around the world, after the group A15 Action called for coordinating a "multi-city blockade... in solidarity with Palestine."
"In each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact," the group said on its website.
In Philadelphia, protesters blocked roads and shut down highway traffic heading into Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, forcing some passengers to make their way by foot to catch their flights.
Protests were also planned in Canada, Italy, South Korea, Colombia and Belgium, while the X account for A15 posted photos of demonstrations in Greece, Spain and Australia.
Demonstrators who were blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge held a banner reading "Stop the world for Gaza."
"We know that money is really what speaks to (elected leaders)," an organizer, who gave her name as Hayshawiya, told the San Francisco Chronicle from the bridge, adding they would stay until the police forced them out.
The California Highway Patrol said on X that officers were making arrests before announcing that traffic had reopened in both directions just before 12:30 pm (1930 GMT).
Monday's protests come as US President Joe Biden faces continued criticism from within his own party about Washington's continued support of Israel.
(With AFP inputs)
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