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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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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the Bernd Debusmann Jr
college protests across the US. Reporting from Columbia
"What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific," he said on Wednesday, describing the pro-Palestinian protesters as "antisemitic mobs" taking Minnesota Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has arrived on the campus at Columbia University in New York.
over "leading universities". Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, 21, was among a group of pro-Palestinian protesters who were cleared from the university by police last week.
"They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty," Netanyahu said. Hirsi says she was suspended from Columbia's sister college, Barnard, for "standing in solidarity with Palestinians".
"It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. But It's been relatively quiet so far on Friday on Columbia's South Lawn.
that’s not what happened. The response of several university presidents was Protesters are sitting out in front of their tents on the encampment, some listening to stories of those killed in the Israel-Gaza conflict read to them by their fellow students.
shameful." Another group of students has been circling in the square chanting "disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest" and "our student rights are under attack what do we do stand up fight back".
Though the protests have largely been peaceful, there are reports On a wall overlooking the encampment are a line of photos of those Israelis held captive by Hamas under wilting roses.
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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