About 100 people believed to be pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested Saturday morning on the campus of a Boston university and their camp was evacuated by police, according to a statement from the university and images released on social media from the scene, reports AFP. , quoted by Agerpres.
“During this evacuation, approximately 100 people were arrested by the police. The students who presented their IDs were released (…) Those who refused to prove their affiliation were arrested,” the institution stated on X (the former Twitter platform), adding that “violent anti-Semitic insults” were proliferated on campus last night.
Beginning last week at Columbia University in New York, this new episode of the movement in support of the Palestinians and against Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has spread to a number of American campuses, from California to New England (northeast). through the southern United States.
Since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, American campuses have been the scene of tensions and several voices have denounced a rise in anti-Semitism.
Last Sunday, US President Joe Biden declared that anti-Semitism “has no place on campuses and anywhere” in the US.
