Voices like Layla’s are heard in the pro-Palestinian camp at Columbia University.
“Many will agree that President Biden is a coward and that they have continued to give money and weapons to Israel. His idea of ??supporting Gaza is an absolute joke,” he said during one of the campus visits allowed to journalists.
This academic institution in New York, with closed access to the public, fortified with a police deployment, has been the catalyst for a protest that has spread to dozens of universities in the United States since the police entered on the 18th to dismantle the encampment. and arrest a hundred students.
Since then, this unprecedented action in half a century not only prompted the tents to return in greater numbers, but also caused a knock-on effect on other campuses.
As university protests have grown, as has not been seen since the demonstrations against the Vietnam War and racism, the Biden Administration has reinforced its support for Israel by sending a 26 billion aid package (approved by the Congress), despite the reiteration of the operation to destroy Gaza and the mass death of Palestinian civilians.
While the UN warned this week that humanitarian problems are getting worse in Gaza, that famine is intensifying, the United States Government remains firm in its support for Israel, despite public criticism of its prime minister, Beniamin Netanyahu.
Biden also did not silence his concern about the anti-Semitism that, according to Jewish students, exists in the student protests. For now, and after missing a couple of deadlines to dismantle the camp, the university assured that it will not resort to the police again. She did urge that the tents be collected as soon as possible and that they can celebrate graduation in a couple of weeks.
