New York, April 26 (RHC)-- U.S. university students at Columbia, Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have vowed to press on with their pro-Palestinian activism at the universities as long as the United States sustained its all-out support for the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Students from two of those higher-learning institutions -- Columbia and Yale-- made the announcement in a joint statement on Thursday from the heart of their Gaza Solidarity Encampments that they have set up on the universities’ campuses. “The future belongs to the daring… Bold actions win support,” asserted the statement that was addressed to “everyone currently taking action in solidarity with Gaza on campuses” throughout the United States.
“This is only the beginning,” it said, asserting, “Pushing the university struggle to its limit might contribute in a similar way to producing a constellation of revolutionary forces in the city today.”
The statement advised that buildings be occupied “on campus, throughout the city, and across the country” in favor of spreading the campaign. The statement pledged that the students would keep up their relevant campaigns “to pull the emergency brake on the war machine.”
Pro-Palestinian academic activism has grown significantly across the U.S. since the onset of the US-backed war on Gaza.
More than 34,300 Palestinians have been killed and over 77,200 others wounded in the war that the regime began on October 7, 2023 following a retaliatory operation by the Palestinian territory’s resistance movements.
The brutal military onslaught enjoys unreserved military and intelligence support on the part of the United States. Washington has also vetoed several United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the war.
In the U.S., in the latest crackdown, some 108 arrests were made at Emerson College in Boston. Earlier, 93 people at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles were taken into custody on trespassing charges.
Protesters and police also clashed at the University of Texas in Austin. Authorities said 34 people were arrested in Austin.
