News – World: Spokesman for the National Salvation Government, Dhaifallah Al-Shami, criticized the American authorities' crackdown on students opposing the Gaza genocide, highlighting it as evidence of America's false claims of upholding human rights and freedom of expression.

In a statement on Friday, Al-Shami commended the growing protests in US universities against Zionist aggression on Gaza, despite the American authorities' campaign of arrests against students. This, he emphasized, reveals the US administration's dismal human rights record and its unwavering support for Zionist aggression against Palestinians.

Minister Al-Shami condemned the US administration's repression of peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstrators on American campuses, viewing it as a setback for the White House.

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.