University campuses in the United States have been home to numerous protests against the war in Gaza that have ended with more than 2,000 arrests throughout the country, with special focus on a strong altercation between pro-Palestinian Protestants and Israeli groups at UCLA which ended up requiring police intervention.

These protests on numerous campuses have reached the American political scene, where the two presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have reacted to what happened on an issue that is beginning to gain relevance in both of their electoral careers.

And with a situation like this in the United States, Europe is beginning to see How is it a situation that can be experienced very soon in the universities of different countries, since many are already experiencing small encampments of pro-Palestinian Protestants that, still far from reaching the magnitude of what happened in the North American country, is beginning to gain importance .

For example in United Kingdomwhere groups of students have already begun to set up tents in favor of Palestine in universities such as Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle or Edinburgh, although without registering altercations with the police or having acts of vandalism.

However, at the same time, the magnitude of these camps is growing over time. At the University of Manchester, more than 100 students have already gathered in the so-called Palestinian Resistance Camp, in Brunswick Park, to demand that the center end its relations with arms companies such as BAE Systems or Tel Aviv University.

Italy lives a situation somewhat closer to the United States. In Italian universities such as Turin, Pisa, Bologna and Rome, groups of students have been demanding the suspension of collaborations with Israel for weeks, and, in some of them, there have been altercations with the police.

A situation that also lives France to the point of being echoed by the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal: “There will never be a right to blockade, nor any tolerance with the action of an agitating and dangerous minority that seeks to impose its rules on our students and our teachers.”

And on French territory there have already been mobilizations in Paris, Rennes, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Lyon and Grenoble, according to ‘Le Monde’, being the European country with the most registered protests. The management of Sciences Po Paris has decided to close its main facilities this Friday due to a new occupation by several dozen students moving through Gaza.

Furthermore, in front of the Sorbonne University, where the police had already intervened on Monday to evacuate nearly 300 students, this Thursday they once again set up a camp of around twenty tents that the local police dismantled shortly after.

For its part, in Spainaccording to Efe, a university camp that began this Monday at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Valencia will continue indefinitely, while it is expected that a protest will also begin in Madrid next week.

A series of protests that continues to gain strength in Europe, encouraged by the situation in the United States, with a common objective: to show support for Palestine while condemning Israel’s actions.