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Study Finds 99% of Pro-Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 Protests At US Universities Are Peaceful

Data from ACLED, leading source of realtime data on political violence and protest activity across the globe, belies claims of Biden and Trump that Student Spring movement — campus protests against Israel's war on Gaza — is violent.

Police have arrested around 200 protesters from the anti-war encampment at UCLA, with the campus police restricting access to the area, and police helicopters hovering overhead. Photo: Reuters

A new report has found that 99 percent of pro-Palestine protests at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from President Joe Biden characterising such demonstrations as violent and ex-American leader Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans supporting police crackdown on students and scholars.

"While some notable violent clashes have recently taken place, such as on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, where demonstrators and counter-demonstrators fought at a student encampment overnight on 30 April, the overwhelming majority of student protests since October — 99% — have remained peaceful," data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data [ACLED] revealed.

ACLED report showed that student-led pro-Palestine demonstrations in the US — dubbed "Student Spring" - have almost tripled from April 1 to 26, surpassing the total for the entire month of March 2024. "The arrest of more than 100 students at Columbia University in New York around 18 April heralded a new wave of campus demonstrations," said ACLED, a credible source of real-time data on political violence and protest activity around the World.

A graduate student from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University, who chose to remain anonymous because of the fear of getting suspended, told TRT World that anti-war protests on the campus were characterised by peaceful demonstrations.

"We received support from the faculty during these moments, which shows the sense of solidarity and encouragement within the academic community that includes students and staff at GWU".

Columbia University has announced that all classes at its main campus will be hybrid until the end of the spring semester.

The burgeoning wave of student protests against Israel's brutal war in Gaza sweeping across top university campuses throughout the US stands as an echo of the anti-Vietnam War movement that indelibly shaped the spirited and often polarising discourse in the nation during the latter half of 1960s and early 1970s.

The ongoing demonstrations not only reflect the deep-seated discontent surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict in the US civil society and youth, but also serve as a potent precursor to the collective efforts that ultimately brought an end to the Vietnam War.

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ACLED data is a trusted resource for development, humanitarian, and policy organisations worldwide, including the UN and is used by governments globally, including the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Australia.

Since April 18, over 2,300 students and faculty have been arrested on college and university grounds amidst a surge of pro-Palestine protests sweeping across the US.

While protesters' demands vary, a common theme has emerged: urging colleges and universities to divest from entities supporting Israel because of Tel Aviv's role in the widespread killing and mayhem in Gaza, which some experts believe has already assumed genocidal proportions.

Students Strike First Victories

The wave of student protests has extended beyond the US, reaching other countries as well including France, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Australia and many Middle East countries.

Protesters in some universities struck initial victories and ceased their demonstrations after school leaders made deals with them.

The agreements at schools including Brown, Northwestern and Rutgers stand out amidst the chaotic scenes and 2,400-plus arrests on 46 campuses across the nation since April 17.

Deals included commitments by universities to review their investments in Israel or with firms linked to Tel Aviv's war on besieged Gaza, where Tel Aviv, according to Palestinian data, has killed at least 34,622 Palestinians - 70 percent of them babies, children and women - and wounded over 77,867 while some 10,000+ are feared buried under debris of annihilated buildings.

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Chicago university withholds diplomas of 4 students over protests

Tens of students left the University of Chicago’s graduation ceremony Saturday as the school denied diplomas to four graduates over their participation in a pro-Palestinian encampment, NBC News reported.

UChicago United for Palestine said four graduating seniors were informed by email in recent days that their diplomas would be withdrawn pending a disciplinary process related to complaints against the camp.

“My diploma doesn’t matter when there are people in Palestine and in Gaza that will never walk a stage again, who will never receive a diploma. What about them? Who’s going to fight for them?” Youssef Haweh, one of the students, said in a statement.

Moreover, students have cancelled final exams at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities as protest camps have sprung up in the US and Europe in recent weeks.

They have demanded their universities stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support its war in Gaza. Organisers of the demonstrations are seeking to strengthen calls to end Israel’s war on Hamas, which they call genocide against Palestinians.

University of Chicago administrators initially took a permission-based approach, but later said the protest had crossed the line and raised growing security concerns. One group temporarily took over a building on the school’s campus.

According to university officials, the demonstrations had prompted formal complaints, including for “disruptive conduct,” and would require further review. Still students remained able to participate in graduation and receive diplomas provided they excused themselves following an investigation into alleged violations of campus policy.

In addition, thousands of students and faculty have signed a petition urging the university to issue diplomas. Over a dozen Chicago City Council members have written a letter asking them to do the same.

Protests are reprisals to the Israel-Hamas war, which began on 7 October. Hamas conducted a devastating cross-border attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages. Israel launched a retaliatory offensive that killed over 36,500 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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