Crackdowns at 4 College Protests Lead to Nearly 200 Arrests

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Nearly 200 protesters were arrested on Saturday at Northeastern University, Arizona State University, Indiana University and Washington University in St. Louis, according to officials, as colleges across the country struggle to quell growing pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments on campus.

More than 700 protesters have been arrested on U.S. campuses since April 18, when Columbia University had the New York Police Department clear a protest encampment there. In several cases, most of those who were arrested have been released.

At Washington University in St. Louis, the campus was locked down amid protests and several arrests were made on Saturday evening, according to the campus police and updates on the university website. Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for the 2024 presidential election, was among the arrested, along with her campaign manager and another staff member, a spokesman for the campaign said. It was not immediately clear how many people were arrested.

Earlier in the day, at Northeastern in Boston, protesters had set up an encampment on the campus’s Centennial Common this week that drew more than 100 supporters. The administration had asked the protesters to leave, but many students did not.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/us/northeastern-arizona-state-university-protests-arrests.html

[Barry Markson]

1. Rookies

According to CNN, the Chicago police reported 589 arrests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention alone, while Time reported 668.

This year will be lit!

And the MAGATS in Milwaukee?
HooooWeee.
Bring out the cattle cars.

[SoFlaBro]

2. A good start. I want to see those fucking numbers up into the THOUSANDS. Tired of the blatant anti Semitism.

[Celerity]

9. Pro-Israel Agitator Shouts 'Kill the Jews,' Gets Everyone Else Arrested

Around 100 protesters were arrested on Saturday at a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University, but not the one whose hate speech got everything shut down.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218902071

[SouthBayDem]

3. If Obama could overcome Occupy, Biden can overcome these protests.

Thankfully he has forcefully denounced the antisemitism and harassment shown at these protests (contrary to stuff you've probably seen on Facebook or heard on AM radio claiming otherwise).

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Fox and AM Radio don't give a shit about us Jews.

[Aussie105]

5. Probably not.

Does Bibi?

I'm sure he or his advisors may have thought up the worrying idea that there may be some backlash against Jews in overseas countries as a result of the current IDF actions?

Saying 'Us Jews' makes it sound like it's a war between Jews and the rest of the world, and calling for draconian repression of any views not aligned with yours isn't a good look.

Tolerance and unwinding of the violence is the answer. Not some repressive and revengeful approach.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. "The Jews won't replace us" "Zionists must be murdered." Harassing Jewish university students

Yes, we are under attack everywhere. And have been in western civilization for centuries.

Tolerance? Do I need to go through history and mention all the times the rest of the world has "tolerated" us? We have to show tolerance to those that have spit on us, abused us, oppressed us, and murdered us. I keep forgetting that.

[Aussie105]

8. History is full of minority groups being victimised and decimated.

Jews aren't unique in that respect.

Look at world news beyond your patch and see the various ethnic based conflicts that are killing thousands of people.

But if you want to declare war on the rest of the world because Jews have been victimised as a group in the past, and it is continuing to happen, please carry on.
It's an answer. Maybe not the right one though.

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. You mean like my mother who is Tuscarora and my Chinese national wife whose family was brutalized

by the Japanese in Jiangsu during WW2.

75 years of Palestinian terrorist attacks are enough. Oct 7th, the people in Gaza celebrated the slaughter of 1200 Jews and the world responded with tepid consternation. The FAFO and Israel responded and the world has lost its mind.

Sorry. Enough is enough. NEVER AGAIN!

[LeftInTX]

7. Occupy barely got traction.

We're now looking at a war with thousands of dead bodies, destruction and tons of footage. Very different.
Gaza has built in footage due to it's small size, tiktok everyone with a cell phone and Al Jazeera