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In recent days, demonstrations against Israel and support for Palestine have been set off on prominent campuses of American universities, and the demonstrations have reached a climax since mid-April. Most notably, students at Columbia University in New York held several days of demonstrations against Israel and in support of Palestine in Gaza, and a number of clashes broke out.
In other universities, including Harvard University and Yale University, similar anti-Israel and "anti-Jewish" demonstrations have taken place. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was blocked by demonstrators, and the wave of demonstrations against Israel, or what the United States calls "anti-Jews," has been one wave after another.
Recently, the incident has also caused a very big repercussion in the whole society in the United States, one is that these universities themselves have also had many anti-war demonstrations in history, such as Columbia University in the 60s, because of the "opposition to the Vietnam War" and so on, including demonstrations related to race. At that time, especially in 1968, the massive campus demonstrations led to a violent crackdown by the police in New York. This time at Columbia University, on April 18, the New York police also took steps to arrest more than 100 students who were demonstrating.
Police in some other parts of the United States have also intervened in demonstrations on college campuses. What impact will these successive waves of demonstrations have on the current US approach to the Middle East issue? For example, we all remember the mass demonstrations at Columbia University in the '60s, which we just mentioned. At that time, these series of demonstrations by famous American college students eventually formed a wave of anti-war demonstrations in American society during the "Vietnam War", and finally formed a mainstream consensus in the whole society. Eventually, all kinds of pressure were called for the U.S. government to withdraw its troops from Vietnam.
Later, also at home and in the defeat on the battlefield of the "Vietnam War", decisive measures were taken. At the time of Nixon, the withdrawal of troops in the "Vietnam War" was adopted, which was the final outcome of the United States in the Vietnam War in history. So will the campus demonstrations at Columbia University and other famous universities spread further to society and further form a tear in American society?
Because in American society, the influence of Israel or Jews is everywhere, especially in the political and financial circles of the United States, including the educational circles. The demonstrations of these students "against the Jews" in various universities have also caused some influential Jews in society to express their attitude, and some have announced that they will cut off donations to these universities, which has put pressure on the university authorities. So will this demonstration spread further to the whole of society, creating a kind of public pressure to influence US policy in the Middle East or support Israel before the Biden and Trump elections?
You know, a few days ago, Blinken also said that in the next few days. The United States may announce sanctions against a religiously extremist, nationalist force called the "Jewish Eternal Battalion." This force is said to have committed crimes against humanity in the past and in this conflict in Gaza.
Will the United States really announce that it will impose unprecedented sanctions on an Israeli army, or even take other greater pressure to force Netanyahu's Israeli government to rein in Gaza? This is what everyone is concerned about this American college campus demonstration, and will the US policy and strategy in the Middle East be adjusted because of the wave of "anti-Semitic" demonstrations at home, especially the wave of "anti-Semitic" demonstrations in universities?
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