Hamilton Hall is now Hind’s Hall. Raise a fist.

WHILE MAINSTREAM American media, including NYT, WaPo and CNN, are telling you that Columbia University students have occupied Hamilton Hall in the varsity, here is what they are not telling.

The students have named Hamilton Hall as Hind’s Hall, after Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in January.

This is in line with a remarkable tradition. When the students had taken over the same hall to protest against efforts to erase the memory of the assassination of Malcolm X, they had named it Nat Turner Hall of Malcolm X University.

For starters, Nat Turner was a slave preacher who in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia, led the largest slave revolt on the North American mainland.

Right now, the best hope for a better future comes from the widespread students’ protests on American campuses. It is a shame that campuses in India remain deaf and dumb to the ongoing crisis. The failure of a city like Chandigarh to rise against the ham-handed action against pro-reservation protestors in the Panjab University is heartbreaking.
Campuses of the world are rising. We must not be found wanting in raising our voice.

Shamma Jalti Rahi, Raat Dhalti Rahi

U.C.L.A. has called in police as clashes escalate at campuses. Police seemed poised to arrest pro-Palestinian demonstrators at U.C.L.A. and other universities after a tense 24 hours. U.C.L.A. had declared a pro-Palestinian encampment illegal, then clashes broke out.

At Columbia University in New York, police officers in riot gear made dozens of arrests on Tuesday night. Protest encampments have been cleared.

Other protest encampments around the country were still standing as dawn neared. Demonstrators at most places have said that they will not back down.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested at City College of New York in Harlem on Tuesday night.

Earlier on Tuesday, officials at Portland State University in Oregon also seemed ready to intervene against protests on the campus. The police also moved into an encampment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, arresting about 30 people, but protesters returned later in the day.

In Rhode Island, students at Brown University dismantled their encampment on Tuesday. On the West Coast, the police ended the eight-day occupation of an administration building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.

At Tulane University, state and local police were acting against the protesting students, and law enforcement officers had entered the campus.

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At the University of Arizona, police admitted they were spraying chemical irritants and ordering crowds on campus to disperse early Wednesday in response to what they called an “unlawful assembly.”

इंक़लाब-ए-सुब्ह की कुछ कम नहीं ये भी दलील
पत्थरों को दे रहे हैं आइने खुल कर जवाब

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