警方从东北大学亲巴勒斯坦营地驱散 100 名抗议者
【中美创新时报2024 年 4 月 27 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）本周，警方对波士顿大学校园进行了第二次大规模扫荡，周六早些时候，警方清理了东北大学的一个亲巴勒斯坦营地，拘留了约 100 人。《波士顿环球报》记者Alexa Coultoff、Lila Hempel-Edgers、Daniel Kool、Nick Stoico、Sean Cotter 和 Laura Crimaldi 对此作了下述报道。
但警方的行动引发了一场关于反犹太言论起源的激烈辩论，在警察进入并拆除营地之前，集会上至少有两名举着以色列国旗的反示威者高喊着这一言论。
东北大学在周六上午 8 点 30 分发布的一份声明中表示，与该大学无关的“专业组织者”组织了这次示威活动。东北大学还表示，听到了“恶毒的反犹太主义诽谤，包括‘杀死犹太人’”。
参与营地的学生团体和一个和平活动组织表示，一名未参与示威的反抗议者高喊“杀死犹太人”，东北大学错误地将这一声明归咎于亲巴勒斯坦示威者，以证明警方行动的合理性 。
马萨诸塞州和平行动分享了一段视频片段，显示两名男子举着以色列国旗，亲巴勒斯坦示威者聚集在一起高呼口号。
该和平组织分享的视频似乎显示，一名身份不明的男子举着以色列国旗，大喊：“杀掉犹太人，船上有人吗？”
一些示威者以嘘声和大喊“不”作为回应。
该和平组织在一份声明中表示，反抗议者的行为“显然是试图让人群重复反犹太主义言论”。
另外两个组织“犹太和平之声波士顿”和“如果不是现在波士顿”也谴责东北大学“虚假声称”亲巴勒斯坦示威者“被专业组织者渗透”，并使用“恶毒的反犹太主义诽谤”。
上午11点刚过，东北大学又发表声明回应了这一言论。声明没有说明是谁喊出了这句话，并援引《波士顿环球报》的报道称，有人在校园里喊出了这句话。
“‘杀死犹太人’这句话在我们校园里被高喊，这一事实是没有争议的。值得信赖的新闻机构《波士顿环球报》如实报道了这一事件。还有大量视频证据，”东北大学发言人雷纳塔·纽尔(Renata Nyul)在上午晚些时候的声明中表示。“任何认为令人厌恶的反犹太主义言论有时可以根据具体情况接受的说法都是应该受到谴责的。这种语言在任何大学校园里都没有立足之地。”
周六上午，校园警察局和州警察开始清理营地，并于早上 7 点开始实施逮捕，波士顿警方也在场。他们在大约两个小时内驱散了示威者。
两天前，当局捣毁了艾默生市的一个类似营地，导致 118 人被捕，并因警察的高压手段而受到批评。东北部的行动似乎没有出现警察和抗议者之间同样类型的肢体冲突。
州警方在一份声明中表示，东北部周六早上打电话要求清除抗议活动，并请求他们提供援助。 发言人大卫·普罗科皮奥表示，警察回应了校园警察的援助请求，并“协助驱散了拒绝离开的抗议者”。
那些被预订的人可能会面临非法侵入和扰乱治安行为的指控。普罗科皮奥说，他们被带到萨福克县惩教所接受登记和处理，并补充说总共约有 102 人被拘留。
东北部激进组织“哈士奇争取自由巴勒斯坦”对示威者高喊反犹太辱骂的说法提出异议。该组织在一份声明中表示，反抗议者大喊这句话是为了嘲笑他们。
该学生组织在逮捕后的一份声明中表示：“在部署校园警察、市警察和州警察对付和平活动的学生后，东北部政府发表了完全虚假和捏造的叙述，称我们营地的成员今天凌晨发表了仇恨言论。” 。
“东北大学政府的行为令人遗憾，因为他们继续诽谤学生，并剥夺了哈士奇争取自由巴勒斯坦的主要原因：废除以色列种族隔离制度并呼吁立即永久停火。”
声明称，该组织没有“被‘专业抗议者’以任何方式、形式‘渗透’，也没有雇佣任何人，主要由学生组成。”
东北大学的营地是示威者本周在波士顿地区大学设立的几个营地之一，这是全国大学校园抗议浪潮的一部分，学生们呼吁管理人员谴责加沙不断上升的死亡人数，并放弃与加沙的经济联系。 以色列。
在警察和市政府官员警告抗议者称，艾默生营地堵塞了通往州交通大楼的公共道路，造成安全隐患后，市长吴弭和警察局长迈克尔·考克斯决定警方将清理艾默生营地。抗议者和旁观者的视频显示，警察与尖叫的抗议者扭打，引发了对警察策略的批评。
哈佛大学、麻省理工学院和塔夫茨大学仍设有营地。
周四设立该地点的东北部示威者很快遭到管理人员的反对，管理人员称抗议者违反了学生行为准则。
周六早上，当他们开始清理营地时，大约十几名东北部和州警察从希尔曼大厅排成一队，在环形通道的另一边排队。
“是时候回家了，伙计们，”一名警官说。 学生们回答说这是他们的草坪。 “私有财产，”该官员说。 “是时候回家了。”
周五深夜，示威人数达到高峰，人数已增至约 200 人。当天早些时候，该大学切断了公共电源，示威者使用公共电源插座为移动设备以及热水器、扬声器和其他物品充电。公共区域附近的两座教学楼也被关闭并锁上门。
东北大学负责对外事务的高级副校长迈克尔·阿米尼(Michael Armini)表示，大学官员“多次尝试与学生交谈”，但没有成功。
但敌意继续高涨。有一次，有人对着两名举着以色列国旗的反抗议者大喊“杀死犹太人”，而其他人则大喊“没有生存的权利”。校园警察随后护送这些人离开营地。
周六凌晨 5 点 35 分左右，东北部警方将大约两打抗议者引到莱昂街，他们站在那里继续高呼口号并从远处拍摄。
东北部副警察局长鲁本·加林多(Ruben Galindo)拿着扩音器在营地周围走动，警告示威者离开该地区。他告诉学生们，他们可以离开而不会受到任何纪律处分，但没有人有义务这样做。 相反，口号却越来越响亮。
加林多对示威者说：“当警察接近你们时，不要反抗。”
凌晨 5 点 45 分，一辆大型黑色搬运卡车停在营地边界附近。警察和工作人员从里面解除了金属路障，将它们拖到营地周围，阻止人们进入。
一名抗议者开始对正在组装路障的工人大喊大叫。
“你在帮助这些警察？” 他一边打电话，一边举起手机录制视频。
“我们只是在做我们的工作，兄弟，”一名拿着路障的男子说道。
警察在营地两侧设置了路障，阻止学生与外界接触。路障的一侧从希尔曼大厅延伸到莱德大厅，另一侧在莱德大厅和霍姆斯大厅之间。
凌晨5点55分，营地被完全封锁。早上 6 点 08 分，警察开始拖走阿迪朗达克椅子并将帐篷扔到一边，而仍在里面的抗议者继续高喊口号。 其他示威者双臂交叉地坐在地上。
一名警官拿起一面小巴勒斯坦国旗，走到百年纪念公园周边，示威者站在路障外。“你想要这个吗？” 他边说边把旗帜递给了学生。她接过，它开始随着口号挥舞，“加沙看到你了。”
与此同时，一群学生聚集在栅栏外，对警察尖叫，并重复营地内喊出的口号。一名警官示意支援，并告诉其他警官“覆盖”障碍物和营地之间的间隙。
营地内的两名学生使用由泳池面条和聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料制成的自制座垫作为盾牌。早上6点15分左右，营地里的学生从坐姿站起来，双手挽着手，向警察高喊口号。
早上 6 点 35 分左右，警察接近了抗议者的围墙。他们似乎在与组织者交谈，并指着路障的外侧。
在警察到达校园之前，成群结队的州警察巡逻车和没有标记的车辆鱼贯进入 Ruggles MBTA 车站后面的停车场，该停车场距离公共区域不远。可以看到警察们拥抱并握手，其他人开始从车上取出设备。
逮捕行动于上午 7 点刚过不久开始，警方将一些示威者的双手绑在拉链上，并将他们带到希尔曼大厅。上午 7 点 25 分左右，抗议者被从希尔曼带走，放进停在小巷里的运输车，引起了附近路障后面十几名围观者的欢呼。
“这些是非暴力学生，”一名抗议者对路障对面的警察说。
在公共场所，学生们手挽手环绕着营地周围，而一名组织者则站在中间，对着扩音器讲话。 “请不要主动拒捕，我知道你想，我也想。不要参与，这不值得，”组织者说。
一些抗议者试图阻挡警车。
自纽约市警方上周试图破坏哥伦比亚大学一处营地并逮捕了 100 多人以来，全国数十个校园中出现了营地。
据加沙卫生部称，自从哈马斯 10 月 7 日袭击以色列并造成 1,200 多人死亡（其中大部分是平民）后，以色列入侵该领土以来，加沙已有 34,300 多人死亡，其中大部分是妇女和儿童。
周六晚上，在东北部，数十人聚集在克伦兹曼广场 (Krentzman Quad) 旁，参加纪念安息日结束的哈夫达拉 (Havdalah) 仪式。逮捕事件成为一个主要话题，包括东北犹太学生在内的发言者批评该大学召集警察关闭营地。
21 岁的雷切尔 (Rachel) 是一名东北大学四年级学生，她是犹太人，因担心发表言论而遭到报复，要求不公开自己的姓氏。她说，她在营地待了两天，但周六早些时候警方采取行动时她就离开了 。 她说这是一个和平且公共的环境。
“这是我感觉与任何社区最接近的一次，”她在接受采访时说。 “看到如此美丽的解放区被彻底摧毁，真是令人难过。”
题图：周六早些时候，一名学生抗议者在东北大学校园 Centennial Common 的亲巴勒斯坦抗议营地被捕。ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON FOR THE B
附原英文报道：
Police clear 100 protesters from pro-Palestinian encampment at Northeastern University
By Alexa Coultoff, Lila Hempel-Edgers, Daniel Kool, Nick Stoico, Sean Cotter and Laura Crimaldi Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff,Updated April 27, 2024
Editor’s note: This story has been updated multiple times since Friday evening. Our latest update reflects additional information about an inflammatory statement that Northeastern University cited in its decision to clear the student encampment. The Globe is reviewing video from the scene and its earlier reporting to better determine how events unfolded.
In the second dramatic sweep of a college campus in Boston this week, police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at Northeastern University early Saturday, detaining around 100 people.
But the police operation gave way to a roiling debate over the origin of an antisemitic statement that was shouted among the gathering, which included at least two counterdemonstrators holding a flag of Israel, before officers moved in and dismantled the encampment.
In a statement released at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Northeastern said that “professional organizers with no affiliation” to the university had co-opted the demonstration. Northeastern also said “virulent antisemitic slurs, including ‘Kill the Jews’” were heard.
Student groups involved in the encampment and a peace activist organization said one of the counterprotesters who was not involved in the demonstration had shouted “Kill the Jews,” and that Northeastern had incorrectly blamed the pro-Palestinian demonstrators for the statement to justify the police action.
Massachusetts Peace Action shared a video clip that shows two men holding an Israeli flag as a gathering of pro-Palestinian demonstrators organized chants.
The video shared by the peace organization appears to show one of the unidentified men holding the Israeli flag, yell, “Kill the Jews, anybody on board?”
Several of the demonstrators responded by booing and yelling, “No.”
The peace group said in a statement that the counterprotester’s actions were “an apparent attempt to get the crowd to repeat the antisemitic remark.”
Two other organizations, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston and If Not Now Boston, also denounced Northeastern for making “false claims” that the pro-Palestinian demonstrators were “infiltrated by professional organizers” who used “virulent antisemitic slurs.”
Shortly after 11 a.m., Northeastern issued another statement addressing the remark. The statement didn’t address who was responsible for shouting the phrase and cited The Boston Globe as reporting that a person yelled the remark on campus.
“The fact that the phrase ‘Kill the Jews’ was shouted on our campus is not in dispute. The Boston Globe, a trusted news organization, reported it as fact. There is also substantial video evidence,” Northeastern spokesperson Renata Nyul said in the late morning statement. “Any suggestion that repulsive antisemitic comments are sometimes acceptable depending on the context is reprehensible. That language has no place on any university campus.”
Officers from the campus police department and State Police began clearing the encampment Saturday morning and began making arrests at 7 a.m. Boston Police were also on hand. They removed the demonstrators in about two hours.
The police raid took place two days after authorities broke up a similar encampment at Emerson that resulted in 118 arrests and drew criticism for what some saw as heavy-handed police tactics. The Northeastern operation did not appear to feature the same type of physical confrontations between police and protesters.
State Police said in a statement that Northeastern made the call Saturday morning to clear the protest and had asked them for assistance. Spokesperson David Procopio said troopers responded to a campus police request for assistance and “assisted in removing protesters who refused to leave.”
Those who are booked could face charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct. They were being taken to the Suffolk County House of Correction to be booked and processed, Procopio said, adding that about 102 people were detained in total.
Northeastern activist group Huskies for a Free Palestine disputed the statements that the demonstrators had been yelling antisemitic slurs. In a statement, the group said counterprotesters yelled the phrase to mock them.
“After deploying campus police, city police, and state police on peaceful activist students, Northeastern Administration published an entirely false and fabricated narrative that members of our encampment engaged in hate speech early this morning,” the student group said in a statement after the arrests.
“The conduct of Northeastern administration has been deplorable as they continue to defame their students and take away from the main cause of Huskies for a Free Palestine: to divest from Israeli Apartheid and call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.”
The statement said the group was not “‘infiltrated’ in any way, shape or form by ‘professional protestors’, no one hired, it was comprised primarily of students.”
The encampment at Northeastern is one of several that demonstrators set up at universities in the Boston area this week, part of a national wave of protests at college campuses as students call on administrators to condemn the climbing death toll in Gaza and divest from financial ties to Israel.
Mayor Michelle Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox made the decision that police would clear the Emerson encampment after police and city officials warned protesters that it created a safety hazard because it blocked a public way leading to a state transportation building. Video from protesters and onlookers showed officers tussling with screaming protesters, prompting criticism of police tactics.
Encampments remain at Harvard, MIT, and Tufts.
The Northeastern demonstrators, who set up the site Thursday, quickly faced opposition from administrators, who said protesters were violating the student code of conduct.
As they began clearing the camp Saturday morning, about a dozen Northeastern and State Police walked in a single file line from Shillman Hall, lining up around the other side of the circular pathway.
“Time to go home, guys,” one officer said. The students responded that it was their lawn. “Private property,” the officer said. “It’s time to go home.”
The crowd had grown to about 200 demonstrators at its peak late Friday night. Earlier in the day, the university cut off power to the common, where there are outlets that demonstrators were using to charge mobile devices as well as water heaters, speakers, and other items. Two academic buildings near the common were also closed with their doors locked.
Michael Armini, Northeastern’s senior vice president of external affairs, said university officials had “tried to talk to students several times” but were not successful.
But the hostility continued to rise. At one point, a person called out, “Kill the Jews,” while others yelled, “No right to exist,” at the two counterprotesters holding the Israeli flag. Campus police later escorted the men away from the encampment.
About 5:35 a.m. Saturday, police at Northeastern ushered about two dozen protesters down Leon Street, where they stood and continued to chant and film from a distance.
Ruben Galindo, Northeastern’s deputy chief of police, walked around the encampment with a loudspeaker to warn demonstrators to leave the area. He told students they could leave with no disciplinary action, but none obliged. Instead, chants grew louder still.
“When the officers approach you, don’t resist,” Galindo told the demonstrators.
At 5:45 a.m., a large, black moving truck pulled up next to the encampment’s border. Police and workers lifted metal blockades from inside, dragging them around the encampment to block people from entering.
One protester began shouting at the workers putting together the barricade fence.
“You’re helping these police?” he called, holding his phone up to record video.
“We’re just doing our job, brother,” a man holding a barricade said.
Officers established barricades on either side of the encampment, blocking students off from the outside. One side of the barricades reached from Shillman Hall to Ryder Hall, the other between Ryder and Holmes halls.
By 5:55 a.m., the encampment was fully blocked off. At 6:08 a.m., police began dragging away Adirondack chairs and tossing tents aside, as the protesters still inside continued their chants. Other demonstrators sat on the ground with their arms linked.
One officer picked up a small Palestinian flag and walked to the perimeter of Centennial Common, where demonstrators stood outside the barriers. “Do you want this?” he said, offering the flag to the student. She took and it began waving it along to the chant, “Gaza sees you.”
Meanwhile, a group of students gathered outside the barriers, screaming at officers and repeating chants being shouted from within the encampment. An officer motioned for backup, telling other officers to “cover” gaps between barriers and the encampment.
Two students within the encampment used homemade seat cushions, built from pool noodles and Styrofoam, as shields. Around 6:15 a.m., students in the encampment rose from a sitting position and stood, with their arms linked, chanting at the police.
Police approached the wall of protestors around 6:35 a.m. They appeared to speak with organizers, gesturing and pointing toward the outside of the barricades.
Before police reached campus, droves of State Police cruisers and unmarked vehicles filed into a parking lot behind the Ruggles MBTA station, a short distance from the common. Officers could be seen embracing and shaking hands, as others began to take equipment out of the vehicles.
The arrests began shortly after 7 a.m. as police placed some demonstrators’ hands in zip ties and led them to Shillman Hall. The protesters were then taken from Shillman and placed into transport vans parked in an alley around 7:25 a.m., drawing cheers from a nearby crowd of more than a dozen onlookers standing behind a barricade.
“These are nonviolent students,” one protester said to police from across the barricade.
On the common, students linked arms around the perimeter of the encampment, while an organizer stood in the center and spoke into a megaphone. “Please do not actively resist arrest, I know you want to, I want to as well. Do not engage, it’s not worth it,” the organizer said.
Some protesters tried to block police vehicles.
Encampments have sprung up at dozens of campuses nationwide since New York City police made more than 100 arrests as they attempted to break up a camp at Columbia University last week.
More than 34,300 people in Gaza have died, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, since Israel invaded the territory following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
At Northeastern on Saturday night, dozens of people gathered by the Krentzman Quad for a Havdalah service marking the end of Shabbat. The arrests were a main topic, as speakers, including Jewish Northeastern students, criticized the university for calling in police to shut down the encampment.
Rachel, 21, a fourth-year student Northeastern student who is Jewish and asked that her last name not be published for fear of retaliation for speaking out, said she spent two days at the encampment, but was away early Saturday when the police action occurred. She said it was a peaceful and communal setting.
“It was the closest I’ve felt to any community,” she said in an interview. “It was really sad to see what was such a beautiful liberation zone completely destroyed.”
