Pro-Palestinian protests have broken out at major US universities, with nearly 100 people arrested at the University of Southern California and dozens arrested at the University of Texas in Austin on Wednesday.
According to the Boston Police Department, more than 100 people were arrested and four police officers injured on Wednesday this week at Emerson College in Boston during a pro-Palestinian protest, .
At the epicentre of demonstrations that began last week, protesters at Columbia University say they won’t disperse until the school agrees to cut ties with Israeli universities and commits to divesting funds from Israel-linked entities, among other demands.
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College administrators have been under scrutiny in the wake of Israel’s attacks on Gaza. University of Pennsylvania president, Liz Magill, and Harvard University president, Claudine Gay, both stepped down in the wake of pressure over their response to antisemitism on campus.
just over nine months into her tenure, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik, an Egyptian-born economist and former high-ranking official at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Bank of England, is under pressure for her handling of Columbia campus protests, with some students and faculty enraged that she authorized the New York Police Department to shut down pro-Palestinian student protests.
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