Just in front of the students camping in front of the University of California, other groups of pro-Israels sing their proclamations like this: “What a shame!” And those who defend Israel call the protests against it anti-Semitic. genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Eli Tsives, a first-year student at this university, believes that basically the demonstrations are an excuse to spread hatred against the Jewish population: “Most of these people are not really in solidarity with the Palestinian people. They are here to spread hatred, aggression, violence against the Jewish people.”

These are the largest and most widespread student demonstrations since the Vietnam War. Proof of this is the palpable tension with the police. In Texas, California and Boston alone, more than 250 students have been arrested. In fact, the faculty of the University of Texas has issued a statement censuring the use of armed police to disperse peaceful protests.

For its part, the University of Southern California has canceled its graduation ceremonyin which a Muslim student was going to give the speech, while Columbia, the epicenter of the protests, has backed down on the deadline to break up the camp.

The reason is that the attempt to repress the concentrations has caused new waves in other cities in the countryand even of the world. In the last few hours, students from the Sciences Po in Paris have prevented access to the university to demand condemnation of Israel’s actions in Gaza and in Berlin the police have begun to dissolve a camp that was in front of the German Parliament.