At Emory University, anti-Israel protests start, and police detain professors

NEW DELHI: A demonstration against Israel at Emory University in Atlanta became violent when confronted by law officials, leading to the arrest of several people, including two professors. The event, which was recorded on camera and extensively circulated online, included demonstrators fighting with police as they broke up a makeshift tent city on campus early on Thursday morning.
CNN captured the tumultuous scene as police sought to break up the campsite.

One of the people detained was Caroline Fohlin, an Emory professor of economics who looked astonished a few minutes before an Atlanta policeman forced her down and handcuffed her. Fohlin cried out, “Oh my god!” while being held, and she gave her identity as a professor, although it didn’t really help.
During the mass arrest operation, Noelle McAfee, the head of the philosophy department, was arrested along with other academic members. On camera, one cop is seen guiding McAfee away while holding her arms behind her back.
The protesters were furious at the arrests; one of them yelled to the police, “You are Hitler! You guys are like crazy dogs! You people are fascists! Disgrace to you!”

A story published in the New York Post said that 28 people were detained during the demonstrations. Gregory L. Fenves, the president of Emory, released a statement in response to the incidents, expressing his displeasure with the conduct of “highly organized outside protesters” and the demonstration’s effects on the campus community. He lamented the disturbances brought about by the demonstrators who had damaged the campus in the past and voiced his shock at the community members’ detention.
The Emory event is part of a larger trend of anti-Israel demonstrations at American campuses, ranging from Massachusetts to California. Almost 500 arrests have been reported around the country, including notable figures at Indiana University Bloomington, NYU, Columbia University, Yale, the University of Southern California, and the Ohio State University.