Destroying absolutely everything, is the way in which the police have entered the camp that pro-Palestinian protesters had set up on the campus of the University of Los Angeles. The images and sounds, which can be seen in the video that accompanies these lines, are those of an authentic pitched battle. In short, absolutely disproportionate police charges that have resulted, according to the authorities, in no serious injuries and at least 200 detainees who have been transferred to police stations.

Amidst boos, the California police have entered the UCLA campus with the aim of reaching the pro-Palestinian camp area. For this they have been forced to overcome obstacles and barricades that students have set up along the path. “Don’t scare us,” the protesters shouted at the police.

Once the authorities reach them, the young people resist with all their resistance without success, since the agents have not stopped until they break the barrier. After that, they are triggered moments of tension with gunshots and tear gas. As the agents advance, chaos breaks out.

A chaos that the president of the country, Joe Biden, has not hesitated to criticize, since in his eyes “vandalizing property is not a peaceful protest.” “Breaking windows, closing entire campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes… none of these are peaceful protests,” the Democrat said, while warning “that in America there is no place for anti-Semitism.”

Police repression does not let up, and They arrest everyone who opposes them. “Free Palestine,” one of these students shouted in front of the cameras recording how an agent took her away. Along with her, at least two hundred students were arrested, in single file and with zip ties on their wrists.

The pro-Palestinian camp that you see in the video above is the same one that was this Thursday brutally attacked by pro-Israel protesters. In fact, after all these incidents, what remains in daylight is a completely razed esplanade with destroyed tents and rows of detainees sitting on the sidewalk and handcuffed. They wait for one of the buses to distribute them between the different police stations in Los Angeles.

The demonstrations do not stop in the US and neither does the repression

All of them will have to give a statement, but Many thousands of others continue to raise their voices for a free Palestine throughout the entire United States. This is the case of California, whose university has been forced to hold classes online, due to the emergency experienced on campus, they say.

In Arizona, the police have also appeased university protesters, within the framework of a repression that has been present on other campuses in the United States, such as New Orleans. There the agents, With guns raised, they have advanced towards a crowd that the greatest danger they presented was singing songs.. In New Hampshire, protesters have tried to stop them from being evicted.

Universities, a fishing ground for Democratic votes

laSexta’s correspondent in California, María Estévez, has explained that the pro-Palestinian protests have become a new headache for Biden, since within the Democratic Party a great division has been generated between those who support the protests and those who do not. Estévez recalled that in his speech this Thursday the president pointed out that “it is in times like this when there is someone who always wants to score points to gain political advantage.”

Proof of this is that Donald Trump – a candidate to be re-elected in the November presidential elections – has advanced one point over Biden in the polls. And in this scenario of protests, the Republicans are united and as a bloc in their rejection, but also in the attack on the weakness that Biden demonstrates. An advance, probably caused by universities in the United States They have always been an important source of Democratic votes.

And while Biden assures that there is no room for hate speech in the United States, Israeli President Isaac Herzog affirms that it is precisely that antisemitism that has motivated these protests. Herzog shows his complete rejection and speaks of both threats and hostility against the Jews: “We see outstanding academic institutions, halls of history, culture and education contaminated by hatred and anti-Semitism. The people of Israel are with you. Together we will defeat them. “, has said.