No Longer Fearful of Zionist Funding Blackmail, Colleges Now Support Student Protests

Pro-Palestine protests remain strong and steadfast across college campuses nationwide nearly three weeks after they first appeared at Columbia University. And that despite persecution by Zionist henchmen whose Republican imbecilic puppets in Congress threaten to send protesters to Gaza.

In the weeks since April 18, more than 2,600 people have been arrested on 50 campuses. The protesters have said they want their schools to cut all ties with Apartheid Israel's Zionist racist supremacist regime in the Jewish colony in Palestine. Just like campuses across the entire nation did with the Apartheid South African white supremacist regime.

Protesters for justice for the Palestinian people, whose country was raped by European colonial settlers some 75 years ago, have been accused by the Zionist lobby and its domestic American servants of being marxists, terrorists, anarchists and such other typical and stale accusations from the late 19th century.

Many of the campuses have engaged in negotiations with the protesters that have led to early victories for the students: Colleges have pledged to either submit the issue to a vote or to actually begin a disengagement with investments and corporations that manufacture lethal weapons for the criminal settler Zionist government in occupied Palestine. Other colleges have canceled their commencement exercises as they were seen too exuberant and superfluous while millions if innocent civilians are being slaughtered by the Zionists in occupied Palestine. All of this spells victory for the protests which are still in their early stages. College protests against Apartheid white settler South Africa took almost two years to materialize in the abolition of the apartheid regime, the liberation of Nelson Mandela and the ushering of one democratic c0lor-blind South Africa for all its people.

At the University of Chicago, hundreds of protesters remain entrenched on campus after more than a week. University President Paul Alivisatos acknowledged the school's role as a protector of freedom of speech and officers in riot gear who initially blocked access to the school's Quad were asked to retreat.

Officials at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have engaged in a tug of war with teachers and instructors who overwhelmingly support the proteters. Some students have been informed by instructors opposing the suspension of student protesters that they will withhold grades. The school provost's office said it would support "sanctions for any instructor who is found to have improperly withheld grades."

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), protesters were given a deadline to voluntarily leave or face suspension. Very few have left, according to an MIT spokesperson, but many protesters remain entrenched behind the fencing erected around them.  On Monday night, some hundred students remained at the encampment in a calm atmosphere.

Schools not beholden to the Zionist agents are still showing support for the protests, letting students hold demonstrations and organize their encampments as they see fit.

The Rhode Island School of Design, where students started occupying a building Monday, has affirmed students' rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly and supports all members of the community. The school has said President Crystal Williams spent more than five hours with the protesters that evening discussing their demands.

The president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut has commended the on-campus demonstration — which includes a pro-Palestinian tent encampment — as an act of political expression. The camp there has grown from about 20 tents a week ago to more than 100.

President Michael Roth said the university will "continue to make space" for the protesters "as long as that space is not disruptive."