The different protests' varying demands include severing financial ties with Israel, transparency over financial ties, an end to partnerships with Israeli institutions,[28] and amnesty for protesters.[29] Universities have suspended and expelled student protesters, in some cases evicting them from campus housing.[1][30][31] Some universities have relied on police to forcibly disband encampments and end occupations of buildings,[32] others made agreements with protesters for encampments to be dismantled,[33] and a number of universities have cut ties with Israeli institutions, or companies involved with Israel and its occupied territories.[a] The occupations have also resulted in the closure of Columbia University,[40]Cal Poly Humboldt,[41] and the University of Amsterdam;[42]rolling strikes by academic workers on campuses in California;[43] and the cancellation of a few university graduation ceremonies in the U.S., with protests occurring at various ceremonies.[44][45][46]
Supporters of Israel and some Jewish students have raised concerns about antisemitic incidents at or around the protests,[65] prompting condemnations of the protests from leaders including President Joe Biden,[29] Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte,[66] and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu;[67] as well as concern from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese[68] and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.[69] Students and faculty members who have participated in the protests, some of whom are Jewish, have said the protests are not antisemitic.[70][71][72]
^"US college protests: Who are the student groups and others involved". Reuters. April 30, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2024. Among the lead student groups in the coalition are the Columbia chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine. The two decades-old anti-Zionism advocacy groups that protest Israel's military occupation have chapters across the country that have been key to protests on other campuses.
^Treisman, Rachel (May 1, 2024). "How some faculty members are defending student protesters, in actions and in words". NPR. Archived from the original on May 2, 2024. Retrieved May 2, 2024. It's one of several schools around the country where professors are getting arrested at demonstrations, circulating letters in support of arrested protesters and holding no-confidence votes in their administrations.
Multiple sources: Ferré-Sadurní, Luis; Edmonds, Colbi; Cruz, Liset (April 21, 2024). "Some Jewish Students Are Targeted as Protests Continue at Columbia". The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 22, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024. Those demonstrations took a dark turn on Saturday evening, as protesters targeted some Jewish students with antisemitic vitriol that was captured in video and pictures, both inside and outside the campus.
Perry, Nick; Collins, Dave; Price, Michelle L. (April 23, 2024). "Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia". The Associated Press. Archived from the original on April 27, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024. Some Jewish students, meanwhile, say much of the criticism of Israel has veered into antisemitism and made them feel unsafe, and they point out that Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the group's Oct. 7 invasion ... He said some of the protesters shouting antisemitic slurs were not students.
"Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly". The Economist. April 23, 2024. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024. He kept being told: "You're interpreting it wrong", but this week there was no misinterpreting, he says, the undercurrent of antisemitism on campus. "We're coming for you," other Jewish students say they were told: "Get off our campus."
Rosman, Katherine (April 26, 2024). "Columbia Bars Student Protester Who Said 'Zionists Don't Deserve to Live'". The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 27, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2024. Video of the incendiary comments resurfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism.Diver, Tony (April 27, 2024). "Dispatch: Jewish students confront extreme anti-Semitism at Columbia protest camp". The Telegraph. ISSN0307-1235. Archived from the original on April 30, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2024. At Boston's Northeastern University, Police in riot gear cleared an encampment after crowds were heard chanting antisemitic slurs including "kill the Jews".
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