“DOWN WITH OCCUPATION”
Johnson’s go to to Columbia got here as Texas deployed police in riot gear on the College of Texas in Austin the place a whole lot of protesters staged a boisterous walkout, chanting “down with occupation”.
Police mentioned they’d arrested greater than 20 individuals, with the state’s governor Greg Abbott urging swift punishment.
“These protesters belong in jail,” he wrote on social media.
“College students becoming a member of in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public school or college in Texas needs to be expelled.”
Police have been on scene in Los Angeles after a whole lot of scholars started what they known as an occupation on the campus of the College of Southern California.
College students chanted “Free free Palestine” in addition to the controversial slogan “From the river to the ocean, Palestine will likely be free,” which some interpret as calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
“We’re all simply making an attempt to advocate for our brothers and sisters in Palestine who simply do not have voice proper now,” biology scholar Yaseen El-Magharbel advised AFP.
The college mentioned it was closing the campus to outdoors guests, although courses and different actions would proceed.
College students have additionally launched protests at colleges together with Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, the College of Michigan and Brown.
Social media photographs confirmed an encampment taking form at Harvard College.
Courses have been moved on-line and different on-campus actions have been cancelled at California State Polytechnic College, Humboldt, after protesters barricaded themselves in a campus constructing.
Greater than 130 individuals have been arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at New York College Monday evening.
And police on the College of Minnesota reportedly detained 9 individuals at an encampment.
NBC reported that the FBI is coordinating with universities over anti-Semitic threats and doable violence in reference to the continuing wave of protests.
