Police clear US University protest encampments

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00:00Dozens of students, handcuffed, taken into police custody.

00:05On Friday, police forces conducted raids in two university campuses, dismantling pro-Palestinian

00:11protests and arresting demonstrators.

00:13A good operation, no one got hurt, no incidents, both institutions are happy, we're happy and

00:20we're moving on.

00:22These young activists are demanding an end to American military aid to Israel, an immediate

00:27ceasefire in Gaza and the severing of ties between their university and the Hebrew state.

00:33From New York to Seattle, the movement is spreading like wildfire through the country.

00:39And both sides of the argument are resorting to the same tactics.

00:42In Indiana, pro-Israeli students are occupying the university grounds.

00:49Their denouncing a rise in anti-Semitism and hate speech.

00:53Anti-Semitism tends to spike anytime Israel comes up in the news and I have seen some

00:59really disturbing and awful and hateful things being said across the nation at very nice

01:06universities and institutions.

01:08These student movements, echoed across the world, question the US's unconditional support

01:13to Israel, an issue that could be a decisive one in Joe Biden's re-election campaign.

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