ALBAWABA - US student-led protests against Israel's Gaza policy have spread to the nation's capital and other states. Many protesters have been arrested, causing human rights groups to criticize police.
Amidst attacks, the use of tear gas and rubber bullets, and a protest of sympathy with Gaza, American police arrested professors and students from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, yesterday, Thursday.
Video footage captured philosophy department chair Noel McAfee and economics professor Carolyn Fehlén being taken into custody and beaten by police at Emory University following their involvement in a demonstration calling for an immediate cessation of firing in Gaza and an end to US support for Israel.
Student protests in support of Palestinians are growing in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Austin, Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton have hosted protests similar to those against the Vietnam War.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labelled American university protesters "anti-Semitic mobs." Netanyahu called the behaviour of some university presidents "shameful," and called for additional efforts to stop protests. Many top American institutions have seen student rallies against Israel and for Palestine.
Police violence "inhumane"
Meanwhile, a protester named Rafi, who is a student at George Washington University, drew attention to the violence applied by the police to activists at some universities in the United States.
Rafi stated that this situation is "inhumane" and that all of these images are broadcast live on social media, recalling activists who were tied up behind their backs and subjected to police violence.
