TEHRAN April 29. 2024 (Saba) - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the blood of the Gaza martyrs "revealed the true face of Western civilization", noting that human rights advocates"only care about their power."
Iranian news agencies quoted Raisi during a government meeting on as saying that the student movement sweeping the Universities of the world in support of Gaza is "a major event with important dimensions, and it cannot be suppressed and silenced through the arrest of students".
The pace of protests organized by American university students in support of Gaza is escalating, coinciding with a campaign of arrests by police forces of protesting demonstrators.
According to the British newspaper "The Guardian", with the continuation of student-led protests and the demand for a ceasefire in Gaza, some faculty members joined their students ' side.
The arrests continued on Saturday, with about 200 protesters arrested at three universities across the United States.
The Indiana University Police Department in Bloomington said in a statement that 23 protesters were arrested there.
In light of the protests sweeping the universities, the official graduation ceremonies at the University of Southern California were canceled, as one of the students was prevented from giving her honorary speech due to her public support for Palestine.
In nearby Princeton, classes, such as the one run by Max Weiss, who teaches a course on the history of Palestine and"Israel," are held at some protests.
Weiss joined dozens of other New Jersey faculty in writing an open letter in the school newspaper, the "Princetonian", in order to support the protesting faculty and students at Columbia University.
University students across the country "will not stand idly by while university administrations collude with local and municipal police departments, along with a coordinated campaign inside the halls of the US government, in order to suppress freedom of expression," Weiss told The Guardian newspaper.
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resource : Saba
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