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Description: Student protests in the U.S. over the war in Gaza have

intensified and expanded over the past week, with a number of encampments now

in place at colleges including Columbia, Yale, and New York University. Lucy

Ha explains why.

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Video Transcript:

Students clashing with police, tents set up on college campuses. Across

America, chaos engulfs universities as pro-Palestinian protests spread coast

to coast. Let’s take a look at what is behind these demonstrations.

Protesters at major universities like Columbia, Yale, and University of

Southern California, are calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza an end to

US military assistance for Israel. They also want universities to divest

assets from Israel and from arms suppliers and other companies profiting from

the war in Gaza.

We have three demands: divest all finances. Two, provide financial

transparency of all investments, and three, ensure amnesty for all students

and faculty arrested, disciplined or fired in connection with the Movement for

Palestinian Liberation.

Pro-Palestinian protests have drawn students and faculty of various

backgrounds, including those of Jewish and Muslim faiths. The groups

organizing the protests include Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish

Voice for Peace. Organizers have widely condemned violence against pro-Israel

counter-protesters, but some Jewish students say they have faced anti-Semitic

chants.

When you’re an Israeli student on this campus, you feel like you have a

target on your back, you feel unsafe.

School administrators and local law enforcement have cracked down on the

protests. Hundreds of protesters have been arrested, dozens have been

suspended from studies. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called

in New York Police to clear the encampment saying it violated rules against

unauthorized protests.

They asked us to come on the campus to take action, and we did.

Some universities temporarily canceled in-person classes. US House Speaker

Mike Johnson visited Columbia to meet with Jewish students intimidated by some

anti-Israeli demonstrators.

My message to the students inside the encampment is go back to class and stop

the nonsense.