Aviva Fried (US correspondent)
Demonstrations continue on American campuses, despite increasingly numerous police interventions, such as at Columbia or at UCLA, the University of Los Angeles. The activists say they are determined, but their stubbornness is not necessarily well received by the American population.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas continues to tear American campuses apart. Police deployed in around thirty faculties, dismantling of camps in Arizona, clashes on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles between activists of the Palestinian cause and counter-protesters… A disorder caused by a minority, deplores the House- White. Same feeling among American public opinion.
Protesters described as agitators
So, the pro-Palestinian demonstrators are very active, but yet, this has very little impact on Americans. In a recent poll, 80% of them indicate that they support Israel against Hamas. And above all, 69% of those questioned believe that the demonstrators on campus are anti-Semitic. And the one leading the charge against university occupations is New York Mayor Eric Adams.
The democrat wants to put an end to this movement, initiated, according to him, by agitators. “We are going to protect our city against those who are trying to do here what is happening in the rest of the world. There is a movement that wants to radicalize the youth, and I am not going to wait for that to happen,” he said. he declared.
An attitude shared by a majority of Americans. 80% of them think that students who make anti-Semitic remarks or who are violent should be expelled. And to this fed up is added a certain indifference: for American voters, the number one problem is the economy. The war between Israel and Hamas only comes in tenth place among concerns.