Palestinian Youth Union calls for increasing student uprisings globally

PDYU salutes the student uprising in American universities and calls on international and Arab student forces to take action in various universities in support of Gaza and to reject the continuation of the aggression and massacres.

The General Secretariat of the Palestinian Democratic Youth Union “PDYU” praised the anti-Israel uprising at American universities and called upon international and Arab student forces to increase their actions not only in the U.S., but around the world.

The organization released a statement on the social media outlet Telegram on Saturday morning.

"PDYU salutes the student masses who rose up a few days ago in the universities of the United States of America, and whose uprising and revolution was sparked by the Gaza Solidarity Camp at Columbia University in New York, to declare a bold, courageous, and heroic moral, humane, and political student position denouncing American policy," they wrote.

"The escalation of the student uprising and its arrival at dozens of universities in the United States of America and its expansion to a number of universities in some European and Western countries confirms the awareness of the new generations, their defense of human values, their adoption of the Palestinian narrative, the rights of the Palestinian people and the justice of their cause, and their understanding of the truth and the Palestinian tragedy for which the imperialist countries sponsoring the occupation bear responsibility."

The anti-Israel movement in the U.S. reached its height this week when a student encampment overtook a lawn at Columbia University, an Ivy League school in New York City. There were more than 100 arrests at the campus on Tuesday.

The movement spread to NYU, Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, USC, Arizona State University and the University of Texas, among many others. Police around the country later in the week have been able to curb the demonstrations, with arrests taking place with little to no injuries.

On Wednesday, there were more than 100 arrests collectively between USC and UT-Austin protesters. In Austin, about two-thirds of the protesters were released with charges getting dropped.

Most of the arrest charges nationwide have been for trespassing