Cambridge.- The police carried out new evictions on Friday of pro-Hamas protesters on the campuses of two prestigious universities in the United States, where several of the people participating in the protests against the war in Gaza were detained.
A camp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study center near Boston was dismantled at the request of Chancellor Sally Kornbluth.
Recent reports have demonstrated the relationship of these protesters with leftist and pro-terrorism groups.
Ten protesters who remained at the scene at dawn were finally detained without resisting, said the rector, noting that she had no other option given the strong tensions aroused by the protest.
A group of protesters condemned the police operation. “They will not be able to suspend the (protest) movement. We will return,” they wrote on Instagram.
Another eviction also took place this Friday at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the press indicated.
Dozens of riot police dispersed around thirty protesters who had formed a human chain on campus, around the statue of Benjamin Franklin.
Some 2,000 people have been arrested in the protests that began in April at the most reputable universities in the United States.
The protesters demand that study centers cut their links, direct or indirect, with Israeli institutions and weapons manufacturers.
But Jewish students have complained about episodes they consider anti-Semitic.
President Joe Biden emphasized this week that “there is no place at any university in the United States, anywhere in the United States, for anti-Semitism or hate speech or violence of any kind,” in a speech on Capitol Hill to mark of Remembrance Day.
Source: AFP
