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They emphasized the increasing use of skunk water and stun grenades as "conduct that characterizes dictatorships."

It cannot be that 79 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust that the United States and Europe are tolerating protest movements that benefit today’s threats to freedom, says writer.

Universities across the country have struggled to find the right response to the encampments, which have gone up at dozens of schools over the past few weeks.

Friends and lovers of Zion can stand up and say: Enough – not in my country, not out of my pocket [public universities receive funding from taxpayers], not at the price of safety and security.

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden welcomed peaceful protests on campuses and elsewhere, but would continue to condemn hate speech, antisemitism or violence.

Police say they are committed to protecting right to protest and protestors, adding, "freedom of expression ends where criminal offense begins."

In messages posted overnight on social media X, police said they had to act to stop the event and dismantle tents that been set up by protesters, who used violence against police at the site.

Mahmoud Mehrabi is the latest in a series of activists arrested in connection with the 2022 protests who have been sentenced to death.

Several protesters were reportedly arrested, by the New York Police Department, while marching through Central Park.

Must we allow violent rallies because we are fearful of being accused of suppressing the sacred right of peaceful protest? Does our concern for police overreach move us to handcuff law enforcement?