Anti-Israel protest at Michigan graduation repressed

Yesterday, police dispersed a group of protesters who broke into the University of Michigan during the graduation ceremony with tear gas, waving Palestinian flags and displaying messages of support for their cause. Additionally, at the prestigious Princeton University, at least 14 students began a hunger strike in solidarity with Gaza and the reoccupied West Bank.

A video on social media showed masked students, some in hijabs, walking through the university stadium audience with Palestinian flags and signs reading: University of Michigan funds genocide y ACABan acronym for the English phrase All cops are bastards, the newspaper reported The Times of Israel.

In other videos you can see a man between the stadium seats, who stood up and shouted: ¡Lárguense! While on a screen of the sports giant a message was displayed asking the protesters to leave the premises, while the crowd began to chant United States, United States, United States!

The first warning was: We respectfully ask for silence. The University of Michigan recognizes the right to dissent, but also the right of speakers to be heard.

The police entered the stadium when the third warning was displayed on the screen, The disruption has continued after two warnings; In an effort to continue this event, disruptors will be escorted off the premises. On social networks it was said that the event lasted a few minutes.

Meanwhile, 14 university students from Princeton, southwest of New York, yesterday declared the beginning of an indefinite hunger strike in solidarity with the population of the Gaza Strip, the target of an Israeli military offensive. Protesters have been camping on campus for 10 days in what they called the Gaza Solidarity Camp.

The hunger strike began on Friday and will continue until their demands are met: meeting with university management to discuss investments related to Israel and proposals for disinvestment and cultural and academic boycott of Israelreported the organizing committee of the mobilization.

Thus they express their solidarity with the people of Palestine, who have been systematically subjected to famine and deprived of food in what is already one of the worst humanitarian disasters.

They also asked for amnesty for the criminal and disciplinary sanctions imposed on participants in the protest and to reverse the bans on access to the campus and the expulsions of students from the residence halls, the North Jersey news portal reported.

A total of 15 protesters were detained on Monday at this university and hundreds were arrested in other pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the United States.

Another original demonstration in favor of the Gazan people occurred yesterday during the graduation of Northeastern University students in Boston, in which students protested with their cell phones when they were named while graduating.

When they took the stage, the students showed protest messages on their cell phones against the war in the Palestinian enclave, while someone recorded them with another cell phone to broadcast it on social networks.

On the other hand, yesterday at the University of Virginia law enforcement arrested 25 activists after dozens of police officers with special equipment surrounded a student camp and used pepper spray to disperse the peaceful protest that had been in its ninth day, reported The Washington Post.

More than 2,300 people have been arrested on campuses across the country in the recent two weeks, according to the newspaper.

Meanwhile, 88 members of the Democratic Party signed a letter addressed to President Joe Biden in which they denounced Israel’s interference in the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip in violation of federal law.

The coalition of the political force that supports Biden wrote to the White House that the Israel’s restrictions on US-backed humanitarian aid delivery efforts have contributed to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster for Palestinian civilians and credible reports of famine in parts of Gaza..

The letter maintains that United States support for Israel should not be a blank check and that section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act prohibits the country from providing security assistance to nations that prevent the delivery of the assistance.

Make it clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that as long as Israel restricts, directly or indirectly, the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, the Israeli government is risking its eligibility to receive more security assistance from Washingtonwrote the legislators of the House of Representatives, reported The Independent.