Protests against Israel’s war in Gaza have spread to dozens of universities in the United States, but also to the fields of Europe’s universities. The university resistance, which has found in police pressure another reason to protest, asks to stop the “Israeli genocide” under the slogan from ‘Free free Palestine‘.

In the US, protests against the war in Gaza have already spread to some 60 US universities with more than 550 arrested in recent daysa movement that increases pressure on US President Joe Biden to withdraw his support for Israel and the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Meanwhile, university students, with the dim light of their cell phones, try to illuminate the deep darkness that reigns in Gaza in one of the most prestigious universities in Paris, the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). “We do it for Palestine,” say these students who this Friday blocked the entrance to show solidarity with the movement already unstoppable that tours the campuses in the United States.

Anti-riot agents They evicted the students who were They had occupied the Paris Institute of Political Studies in the morning. The protest, which included blocking the street where the building is located, began on Friday morning, in line with student actions in other countries to demand a political and academic reaction against the Israeli military operations against Gaza, which they describe as “genocide”.

The officers peacefully expelled approximately two hundred students, who had sat on the central Saint Guillaume street near the center’s door, where traditionally a good part of the ruling elite has been formed French.

“We are clear that we are witnessing a genocide in Palestine”

In the United States, the latest universities to join this unstoppable movement are those of Arizona, California, Illinois or Chicago. “We are clear that we are witnessing a genocide in PalestineFurthermore, one of the most documented of our time…”, explain these university students, who have no plans to stop their battle.

“Well, we applaud all our comrades throughout the country, we all have to focus the problem on Palestine,” they say. They also voted for his government and, in his name, They are not willing to repeat, They say, mistakes of the past. “Many genocides have occurred since the Holocaust and they all need your attention,” they say.

Also They defend themselves against accusations of anti-Semitismor: “I don’t think this is anti-Semitic, I feel like we’re fighting for people’s lives. Everyone deserves it.” A torch of freedom that emerged and remains alive in Columbia, the university where it all began and they have been entrenched inside for 11 days.

“Until now there are no guarantees that the police will not enter the university,” they explain. His requests are to cut economic ties with Israel and those companies that allow the conflict. Money that could well be used to help empty the 37 million tons of rubble that the UN says is in Gaza and that will take 14 years to move.