Arrests fail; protests for Gaza continues at US varsities

Police have arrested 200 as pro-Palestinian camps at three US universities cleared.

Police nabbed about  200 people at three US universities in a day as they cleared pro-Palestinian camps in the fresh campus clashes sparked by protests over Israel’s offensive on Gaza.

On the East Coast, police arrested about 100 people in Boston while clearing a protest camp at Northeastern University as the social media showing security forces in riot gear and cops loading tents onto the back of a truck.

At the Arizona State University, police nabbed 69 students for trespassing after the group set up an “unauthorised encampment” on campus.

Arizona State officials claimed that the protest group ‘most of whom were not ASU students, faculty or staff’  had set up a camp and then ignored orders to disperse.

At Indiana University, the US heartland, police arrested 23 people as they cleared a protest camp on the university campus. According to the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, police equipped with shields, batons and other riot gear broke through a line of protesters.

Earlier, pro-Palestine protests in the US universities have deeply disturbed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“Whatever is being happened in the US universities is terrible,” the Israeli prime minister said.

He further said that protests at US varsities against Israel’s war in Gaza were horrific. He demanded that these protests should be stopped.

He said that the anti-Semitic crowd was demanding an end of Israel and added the university departments, students and Jewish mobs are being attacked,

These events have brought to mind the events of the German universities in the 1930s, Netanyahu said.