White House urges 'peaceful' pro-Palestinian campus protests after hundreds arrested
Pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University on 28 April 2024 in New York City. The protests against Israel 's war with Hamas began at Columbia University earlier this month before spreading to campuses across the country.
The demonstrations are part of a broader call for a ceasefire in Israel's conflict with Hamas and for colleges to cut ties with Israel. But, he added,"we absolutely condemn the anti-Semitism language that we've heard of late and certainly condemn all the hate speech and the threats of violence out there."
They include 100 at Northeastern University in Boston, 80 at Washington University in St Louis, 72 at Arizona State University and 23 at Indiana University. Protesters at Yale University established a new encampment on Sunday, the school's independent student newspaper reported, after a previous site was taken down by police days earlier, when dozens were arrested and charged with trespassing.College administrators have struggled to find the best response, caught between the need to respect free-speech rights and the imperative of containing inflammatory and sometimes violently anti-Semitic calls by protesters.
Hamas militants staged an unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October that left around 1 170 people dead, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
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