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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Brooke Goldstein, executive director of the Law Project, went on “Hannity” to discuss the anti-Israel protests that continue to disrupt universities across the country.
Nearly 2,200 anti-Israel agitators have been arrested on college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, and police have been forced to use riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash devices to clear tent camps and occupied buildings to restore order.
The protesters criticized the Israel-Hamas war and the rising death toll of Palestinian civilians.
The alarming figures come after more than 100 protesters were arrested as police dispersed protesters camped out inside Hamilton Hall in the administration building during a crackdown at Columbia University, the New York Police Department said Thursday. .
Earlier in the day, thousands of miles away at UCLA, police cracked down on a group of agitators who set up barricades made of plywood, pallets, metal fences and dumpsters, reinforced with canopies and tents. to their camp. Police dismantled barricades and eventually arrested at least 200 protesters after they defied orders to leave.
NYPD BODYCAM video shows police breaking into Columbia University building occupied by anti-Israel protesters
The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) said police arrested 30 anti-Israel protesters on Thursday, May 1, 2024. (John Rudolph/AFP via Getty Images)
Protesters at UCLA similarly called on the school to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support Israel’s war with the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
The Associated Press counts at least 56 unique arrests since April 18 at 43 different colleges or universities in the United States.
Anti-Israel protesters were trapped inside a New York City building and set up camp as NYPD officers in riot gear marched to the Columbia University campus. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
On Thursday, Sgt. Alejandro Rubio of the California Highway Patrol said at least 200 people were arrested at UCLA, citing data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
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On the same day, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) said 30 anti-Israel protesters were arrested at Portland State University.
On April 30, 2024, New York Police Department officers detained dozens of anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University in New York, United States, after they set up a roadblock at Hamilton Hall near the Gaza Solidarity Camp. ((Photo by Selcuk Akar/Anadolu via Getty Images))
Jacksonville Sheriff’s deputies arrested a dozen anti-Israel protesters at the University of North Florida on Thursday.
Police arrested 90 people and tore down tents at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
On April 24, USC police arrested 93 protesters, including 51 students.
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Authorities arrested 28 protesters at the City College of New York this week, prosecutors said Thursday.
Early on May 2, 2024, police confronted anti-Israel students and protesters after destroying some encampment barricades on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus in Los Angeles, California. (Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty)
On April 18, the New York Police Department cleared the initial encampment in Colombia and arrested about 100 protesters. Demonstrators set up new tents and ignored threats of a moratorium.
Other incidents occurred at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and California State University, Humboldt.
Meanwhile, protest encampments at other schools across the country have been cleared by police — resulting in more arrests — or voluntarily closed.
After days of silence, President Biden finally addressed the massive movement on Thursday. (John Rudolph/AFP via Getty Images)
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Officials at other schools, including the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University in suburban Chicago, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Brown University in Rhode Island, reached agreements with protesters not to disrupt commencement ceremonies or make similar compromises.
After days of silence, President Biden finally addressed the massive movement on Thursday, defending students’ rights to peaceful protests but condemning the violence.
Demonstrations began in Colombia on April 17 with students calling for an end to Israel’s war with Hamas, which has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the Colombian Health Ministry. Israel launched its offensive in Gaza after Hamas terrorists launched the deadliest attack in Israel’s history on October 7, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 hostages back to Gaza.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
