Friday, April 26, 2024

After US, French students defy police for pro-Palestinian demo

(Remember that asshole who said 'make them hurt to shut them down'? I said it doesn't work that way unless you're a coward as that man is apparently. You attack some of us, you attack all of us and more and more people are stepping up as a result of their 'hurt them' policy. That's always how it is. It takes courage to stand up for what is right. That's why that asswipe doesn't understand. Because he never has.)

from Daily Sabah

A group of students at one of France's most prestigious universities defied police Friday to protest Israel's brutal war on the Gaza Strip.

The students at Sciences Po occupied an academic building and demonstrated on campus after police broke up a pro-Palestinian solidarity demonstration earlier Wednesday night.

The protests come as Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has sparked a wave of anger across college campuses in the United States.

Sciences Po students have accused management of calling in police to break up a pro-Palestinian protest by dozens of students gathered on a central Paris campus earlier Wednesday.

"The director has crossed a red line by deciding to send in the police," Ines Fontenelle, a member of the Student Union at Sciences Po, told AFP as some 150 students gathered Thursday.

"Management must take steps to restore a climate of trust."...

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