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Hundreds arrested as Gaza protests sweep US universities - BBC News Hundreds arrested as Gaza protests sweep US universities - BBC News
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Large crowds of pro-Palestinian protesters, many of them students, have been gathering at an increasing number of universities in the US. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the
Hundreds have been arrested in the last two weeks. college protests across the US.
But what do they want? "What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific," he said on Wednesday, describing the pro-Palestinian protesters as "antisemitic mobs" taking
Many of the activists are calling for universities to stop investing school funds into companies involved in weapons manufacturing and other industries supporting Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. over "leading universities".
"Our university is complicit in this violence, and this is why we protest," Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty," Netanyahu said.
"It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. But
that’s not what happened. The response of several university presidents was
shameful."
Though the protests have largely been peaceful, there are reports
of increasing antisemitism on campuses, which has led the
White House and multiple lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to condemn the hatred.
Jewish students at the University of Columbia told the BBC they
didn’t feel safe.
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