Report: Over 1,700 People Have Been Arrested on Campuses Nationwide in Past Two Weeks

“It’s despicable that schools would allow another country’s flag to fly in our country.”

- NYC Mayor Eric Adams pic.twitter.com/kmFp5bkKeg

— SZH (@StopZionistHate) May 1, 2024

I see https://t.co/brQEcmvuLt

— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) May 1, 2024

he's literally holding up the very bike lock sold by the police department to students and claiming "this is not what students bring to school" https://t.co/y9dKXplujI pic.twitter.com/a1uEDsWfWQ

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 1, 2024

She’s reporting that the campus protests “harken back to the 1930s in Europe” as though she’s just neutrally reporting proven facts, rather than hallucinating an absolutely batshit alternate reality https://t.co/REvyF5TeKS

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 1, 2024

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) seethes that "Little Gazas" have risen up on campuses across America; he declares the political speech of protesters to be "violent" and "illegal." For this analogy to hold, wouldn't the colleges have to be pulverized into rubble with US-supplied munitions? pic.twitter.com/XvZZPMEtFY

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 1, 2024

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) says Jewish students "are hearing the kind of threats that their great-grandparents heard in Nazi Germany." He says Biden is refusing to save the students from "terrorists" chasing them out of classrooms

This is all just one giant fabrication. It's nuts pic.twitter.com/2vcHIilFj9

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 2, 2024

A police officer at a US student encampment spits on the Palestinian flag

Video footage has emerged showing a police officer in the United States spitting on a Palestinian flag amidst a pro-Palestinian encampment. pic.twitter.com/lWhkRGzo83

— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) May 1, 2024

Trump: “I say to the presidents of the universities: Immediately round up these people who have camped around the university, crush the radicals and take back the universities for all normal students.”

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— AF Post (@AFpost) May 2, 2024

Over the last day, tensions have reached new heights. In Florida, among other states, police have dispersed campus rallies with tear gas. In Wisconsin, photos showed officers detaining a Madison professor with blood smeared on his forehead.

In California, masked men attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment on a Los Angeles campus — and students criticized police for not intervening sooner. Fifteen injuries, including a hospitalization, were reported after officers quelled the violence.

[...] Columbia said it had "no choice" but to call the police after demonstrators smashed windows and blocked doors Tuesday. New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) said that "outside agitators" had influenced students to escalate, heightening the risk for everyone. He declined to provide further details.

Officers booked nearly 300 protesters at Columbia and the City College of New York that night, pushing the number of campus arrests over the last 14 days past 1,700, according to a Washington Post tally.

One student group involved in the demonstrations posted on social media that police had injured "multiple" students, who went to the hospital with "swollen faces from being kicked repeatedly."

Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia prof who spied on students and demonized them as terrorists in her dual role as NYPD counter-terror and intel deputy chief

Her NYPD division has spied on Muslim students outside NYC, and has an office in Tel Aviv

Columbia is completely compromised https://t.co/WcKhHlPouB

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 1, 2024