ALBAWABA - The weeks-long protests have sparked different American political responses. Some have condemned anti-Semitism, but others worry about freedom violations as institutions forcefully dissolve protests and jail hundreds of students.
As "support for Gaza, protest against Israel" demonstrations spread to campuses across the United States, hundreds of students gathered in the yard of George Washington University in the capital, Washington, also organizing demonstrations.
Accompanied by Palestinian students as well as American Jewish and other ethnic and religious background students, an 88-year-old activist who survived the Holocaust also participated in the demonstrations.
Joining the ranks of protestors is 88-year-old Marione Ingram, a Jews Holocaust survivor turned peace activist. Ingram demands an end to the violence in Gaza, calling for America to cease funding the conflict and for Israel to halt its attacks on neighboring territories.
Ingram said, "I am someone who survived the Holocaust. I am here to protest the massacre in Gaza. I want America to stop funding this massacre. I want Israel to stop bombing its neighbors."
Harshly criticizing the Israeli government and the U.S. government that supports it, Ingram said, "More than 34,000 people have been killed, 15,000 of them children," stating that this is not self-defense and that dead children have no right to defend themselves.
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.
