News - Middle East: The Political Bureau of Ansarullah condemned the repression by US officials of peaceful protesters at universities demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza.

The Bureau affirmed in a statement that the unjustified repression of protesters exposes the falsehood of the US government's claims to defend freedom, protect human rights, and promote democracy.

It also affirmed the right of American citizens to peaceful protest and commended their ethical stance, reflecting an increase in societal awareness regarding the Palestinian cause and rejection of Israel's brutal practices in Gaza.

The Political Bureau of Ansarullah called on international human rights organizations to condemn these oppressive practices against peaceful protesters in the US and to pressure the US government to cease its human rights violations.

The statement emphasized that the genocidal crimes committed by Israel in Gaza require a firm international stance to stop them, and that peaceful demonstrations in the US reflect the American people's rejection of these crimes and solidarity with the Palestinian people.

It reiterated that the Palestinian cause will remain central to Arab and Islamic nations, and Ansarullah continues to support the Palestinian people through all means until their legitimate rights are achieved.

Pro-Palestinian academic activism has grown significantly across the US since the onset of the Israeli regime’s US-backed war of genocide against the Gaza Strip.

The United States has been providing the regime with maximal military and intelligence support since October 7, when the latter unleashed the war. Washington has also vetoed several United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the brutal military onslaught that has so far killed more than 34,100 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

American students have been raging against their universities’ connection to the Israeli regime and Washington’s all-out support for the genocide.

According to Reuters, tent protests are underway on campuses from coast to coast, “including Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and California State Polytechnic in Humboldt.”

Throughout the US, academics have also been banding together under the banner Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) in support of the war-hit Palestinians.

Most recently, the FSJP’s Georgia chapter called on Morehouse College in Atlanta that has invited Joe Biden as its 2024 commencement speaker to rescind its invitation as means of objecting to the president’s role in enabling the Israeli genocide.