The student uprising exposed the crisis of American foreign policy

According to the report of Tasnim International News Agency, following the analysis of the massive student uprising in America against the Israel regime for its brutal crimes against the Palestinian people, the American magazine Foreign Policy in a note written by Columbia University professor Howard W. French announced that the demonstrations in American universities present a series of demands that begin with stopping the genocide in Gaza, but the goal is not only that, but the protesters demand the withdrawal of investments from Israel and the disconnection between American and Israeli institutions.

According to this article, what started this great student movement was Israel's barbaric crimes against Gaza, and the demonstrators are also protesting America's foreign policy in support of Israel, but they have no enmity with Jews and do not seek to incite hatred against them. Protests across American universities were accompanied by a lot of reaction from university administrators and politicians, and many measures were taken to suppress these protests in a violent manner.

The author of this article emphasized that what is happening today in the universities of the United States, contrary to the claims of the authorities, is not an academic cultural crisis, but a political crisis as a result of the American foreign policy and the country's deep and close relations with Israel. Also, the great student movement in America that started at Columbia University has nothing to do with anti-Semitism; Rather, this movement is the result of Israel's terrible and wanton violence against the Palestinian people since October 7, 2023.

In the continuation of this note, it is stated that some prominent American politicians accuse these protesting students of spreading hatred against Jews. But what we see inside American universities are generally exemplary images, and these protesting students have even published very admirable codes of conduct and demanded to observe cleanliness and respect the privacy of others and not to clash with opponents.

This American publication added, now is the time to ask, for example, if the situation that Gaza is in now would have happened elsewhere in the world, and the same protest movement that has started today in American universities, would have happened in another country. Protesters were suppressed like this, how would the American government officials react? What can be easily guessed about the reaction of the American authorities in this regard is that if these brutal crimes that happen in Gaza, as well as this severe repression against the protesters that we see in American universities, happened anywhere else in the world, we should see the statements We were strongly condemned by the spokesmen of the US State Department, as well as strong-toned articles in the famous American press and their cries of “support for democracy”.

There are also other questions, Foreign Policy continued. For example, how should a normal citizen react when he sees this amount of crime and violence in Gaza and its devastating effects, and in the context of witnessing the sending of American weapons to Israel and Washington's clear support for this war? The answer is quite clear and the American student protests are a confirmation of the fact that the dual treatment of the American government is unbearable for the citizens of this country. This is while some politicians treat protesters as “threats”.

In the continuation of this note, it is stated that students at Columbia University and other universities are teaching democracy and citizenship to the American society and the whole world with their peaceful protests. They say that cruelty is enough and standing up to crime requires more effort than writing letters to members of Congress or waiting until the next election. Even if these students cannot force the American government to stop the war against the people of Gaza and the West Bank, at least they can prevent universities from supporting this war; As the protesters have demanded to cut off the connection of American scientific and educational institutions with Israeli institutions.

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