US President Joe Biden has spoken out about the nationwide pro-Gaza protests at the country's universities, US media reports.
He guarded the right to demonstrate, but emphasized that it must take place within the framework of the law.
- We are not an authoritarian state where we silence people and suppress dissent. But we are not a lawless country either. We are a civilized country, and order must prevail.
Americans have the right to protest "but not to create chaos," the president says, adding that neither anti-Semitism nor destruction must occur in universities.
Biden also says that the protests have not caused him to reevaluate America's actions and stance in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Teachers at Columbia want to oust the principal: "Shameful"
Columbia
University's chapter of the AAUP, an association of American university
professors, wants a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Minouche
Shafik and the university's leadership. The Guardian reports.
In a
statement, the association criticized Shafik's and the board's decision
to call in the New York police against the pro-Palestinian protesters
on Tuesday.
"These slips culminated in the horrific police attack
on our students that is now shamefully on display for the entire
world," AAUP writes in a statement.
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130 were arrested at UCLA – a total of 2,000 have been arrested
Over 130 protesters were arrested during the police operation at UCLA University in Los Angeles last night, the police said according to the Washington Post.
About ten people were injured in what the university management calls "a dark chapter in the history of our campus", writes the Los Angeles Times. The university has launched an investigation and suspended classes.
In total, more than 2,000 people have been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests at more than 40 American universities in the past two weeks, according to a Washington Post tally.
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