Conflict in Gaza moves to several college campuses across the US.

The Gaza war, which has exposed the United States as the last pro-Israeli bastion in the world, as manifested last week with its sole veto of the recognition of the Palestinian State, is moving to university campuses in recent hours of all country.

The universities of Columbia, NYU (in New York), MIT in Boston, Yale in Connecticut or Berkeley in California and even Michigan are staging loud pro-Palestinian protests in which they ask above all for a change of course in Washington’s policy towards Israel.

But the claims also have a university aspect, and thus ask their respective centers to cut collaboration with Israeli universities or for the rectorates to renounce receiving financing from companies that participate in one way or another in the war.

At New York University (NYU) this Monday there were 130 detainees after the police intervened to disperse the crowds, an action practically identical to that which took place the previous Thursday in Columbia, when the pro-Palestinian camp was dismantled and the police He arrested more than a hundred people.

A Columbia student told EFE that the dismantling of the camp on Thursday night does not seem to have been of much use, since on Sunday its promoters set it up again, apparently with a greater number of tents and better organized; For example, they have appointed spokespersons and asked activists not to respond individually to journalists.

The case is different at NYU, where the environment in its surroundings was completely normal, as EFE was able to verify.

A Columbia spokesperson, contacted by EFE, noted that university president Nemat Shafik is “focused on de-escalating the resentment on campus” and is working with all agencies at the university, the city and even the state in this regard.

The governor of the state of New York, Kathy Hochul, who since the war in Gaza began has multiplied pro-Israel messages, well represents the dilemma that her own Democratic Party faces in the face of these protests. Yesterday she appeared on the Columbia campus and He said he defended the right to free expression, but then stressed that “there are students who are afraid.”

He also said that “no student should be persecuted for their religious beliefs”, and in case there were any doubts about who she was referring to, she later posted on

Former President Donald Trump also intervened in the debate today, and as expected he blamed everything on President Joe Biden: “What is happening in universities is a shame. It’s really Biden’s fault. He has lost his mind, he has the wrong tone… he is a disaster (…) It’s all Biden’s fault and everyone knows it“, he told reporters shortly before entering the trial against him.

The Wall Street Journal predicts today that the graduation ceremonies of many universities involved will be affected by the climate of instability, and the rectorates are already designing plans to guarantee “the safety of students and your own reputation”.

Specifically, the University of Michigan (the state with the largest Arab population in the United States) has not banned protests even during graduations, which begin on May 4, but has confined them to spaces where they will not mix with the families that Come celebrate that moment with the graduates.