外刊精读149:美国顶尖大学掀起大型示威抗议潮,声援巴勒斯坦加沙人民

外刊精读149:美国顶尖大学掀起大型示威抗议潮,声援巴勒斯坦加沙人民

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Echoes of Vietnam era as pro-Palestinian student protests roil US campuses

Calls for divestment continue despite hundreds of arrests, with more demonstrations planned for Democratic national convention

Apr 28, 2024, The Guardian

Student protests on US university campuses over Israel’s war on Gaza showed little sign of letting up over the weekend, with protesters vowing to continue until their demands for US educational bodies to disentangle from companies profiting from the conflict are met.

In what is perhaps the most significant student movement since the anti-Vietnam campus protests of the late 1960s, the conflict between pro-Palestinian students and university administrators has revealed an entire subset of conflicts.

The drone of helicopters over New York’s Washington Square Park on Monday previewed the arrival of the strategic response group (SRG), the New York police department’s specialist counter-terrorism and political protests division, which set about arresting more than 120 New York University students and faculty members who had been circulating on a campus sidewalk to the chant of: “Israel bombs, NYU pays, how many kids have you killed today?”