Several hundred activists and supporters of an American Jewish organization in favor of the Palestinian cause led a blow to the Trump tower, a New York Tower of the president of the United States, of which they denounce the turn of the screw against freedom of expression.
Dresses with red t-shirts with white inscriptions, in reference to the movement “Make the United States” popularized by Donald Trump, these people who responded to the call of the organization Jewish Voice for Peace (Jewish Voice for Peace) invested at the end of the morning the Manhattan Ultra-Secure of Manhattan Skattan.
“Fight against the Nazis, not the students,” they sang in the choir, before being out of the hallway covered with gold and pink marble.
“Free Mahmoud, Palestine Free”
According to the New York Police, 98 people were arrested. First thing in the afternoon, Calm returned inside the Trump tower.
The protesters referred to the arrest last weekend of a Figure of Protal Manifestations of the University of New York in Columbia, which created a national shock wave and aroused the indignation of the defenders of freedom of expression.
“Libere Mahmoud, Palestine Free,” could be read in a banner, still in relation to the placement of detention with a view to his expulsion for Mahmoud Khalil, but holder of a green permanent resident card. The young man served as spokespersons for a student movement from Columbia against the war fought by Israel in Gaza.
“Fascists”
His arrest reveals “that we are on the verge of a total acquisition by an authoritarian regime,” said Jane Hirschmann, who describes himself as a descendant of the Holocaust survivors.
“As Jews of conscience, we know our history and know where it leads. This is what the fascists do,” he added.
“I am here to (…) demand that our Judeity not be used as a weapon to violate the rights of US citizens and put an end to democracy,” said James Schamus, a “Jewish professor” of Columbia. For him, the fight against the semitism shown by Donald Trump is a “smoke screen.”
The idea that “we can be withdrawn from our streets and be expelled from the country if we express political opinions about this conflict abroad should have horror chills in the spine,” he insisted.
Donald Trump has been pointing to universities for a few days, promising in the name of the fight against the semitism of retaliation measures to institutions that do not effectively fight enough for their taste against the demonstrations that shake the faculties against the war in Gaza. Its administration has already eliminated $ 400 million in subsidies in Columbia.
It also threatens foreign citizens who participate in it. On this issue, he promised that the procedure against Mahmoud Khalil would be followed by “many others.”
Source: BFM TV
