The police arrested hundreds of American university students because they demonstrated and objected to what was happening in Gaza, and also objected to America’s support for Israel.
The arrests were at a number of universities, most notably Arizona State University, Barnard, Columbia, Denver, Emory, George Washington, Ohio State, North Carolina, Southern California, Texas at Austin, Virginia Tech, and Bell University.
The students' main goal was for their universities to cut ties with companies financially linked to Israel and those that support the war in Gaza.
The Student Deracialization Organization at Columbia University also called for an end to policing on campus and severing ties with Israeli academic institutions.
At the University of Southern California, a student coalition called for a full amnesty for students, staff, and faculty who were disciplined for their pro-Palestinian activism.
Universities in the United States have taken a more stringent approach in dealing with student protests that are increasing day after day across the country.
The American website Axios reported that, as of April 26, nearly 600 people had been arrested on 15 university campuses across the country in less than ten days.
Axios revealed that university administrations tended to suppress the demonstrators in unprecedented ways as the size and intensity of the protests increased.
It is worth noting that Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, an American of Egyptian origin, testified before Congress and took a position consistent with the representatives denouncing the protests. The students responded by setting up a sit-in camp on the university campus since April 17, which prompted her the next day to call the police with the aim of dismantling the camp.
Since then, solidarity camps and sit-ins for students against the war in Gaza have appeared across the country. They have been going on for more than six months, but escalated with the events of last week.
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