With the aroma of May 1968, the student protests in Paris blocked access to the famous University Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) yesterday, asking the Institute to condemn Israel’s actions. “We hope it will be extended to all universities […] We will not give up until the genocide in Gaza stops,” said the graduate student.
The turn the war in the Gaza Strip has taken is causing social unrest on the other side of the Atlantic, as well as dissatisfaction with the handling of the US government – historically Israel’s most important ally – in the Middle East crisis.
Students like… Ku Klux Klan
Donald Trump, who denounced the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on American college campuses, did not leave the furor untouched. He even compared them to a Far Right rally in Charlottesville. “Charlottesville was absolutely nothing, nothing, compared to the level of hate you have here, it’s massive hate,” said the Republican former president, a candidate for the US presidency in the November 5 election.
Trump was referring to a far-right rally in Virginia in 2017 that began with torch-wielding neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members marching. Clashes then broke out between far-right supporters and anti-fascists, killing young protester Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.
The White House, despite several Democrats strongly reacting to the demonstrations and speaking of student anti-Semitism and an anti-Jewish movement, defended the students’ right to free speech. Political analysts note that student protests might plague this summer’s Democratic Convention in Chicago, as it did in 1968, when anti-war protests ( once morest the Vietnam War) had cast a heavy shadow on the then political gathering. Since this year is an election year in the US, the situation is expected to be taken advantage of by the Republicans, who, according to political analysts, will argue that “the world is out of control and Biden cannot command it”.
The history of student movements in the USA
1954-1960
Brown v. Board of Education.
Declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The cafeteria did not serve coffee to four black students.
1968-1969
Demonstrations once morest the war in Vietnam.
1985
Anti-apartheid movements in South Africa.
Students are calling on universities to divest from institutions linked to the apartheid regime.
2003
The student movement once morest the war in Iraq is on its feet.
2018
Trump’s VP nominee writes in book that she shot and killed her dog
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