٠٠:٠٣:٢٥Several people have been detained after clashes with police erupted at Berlin's Free University during a pro-Palestine rally on Tuesday.
Footage features protesters holding Palestinian flags, placards, and signs, reading, 'All cops are complicit. End settler colonialism' and chanting: 'Gaza, Gaza you will rise. Palestine will never die!' and 'Entire Berlin hates the police'. Pro-Israel supporters could also be seen on the site with Israeli flags.
Police officers were seen announcing that "anyone who does not leave will be subject to police measures, which will be applied by force if necessary," and then started detaining demonstrators.
A protester, Georg, shared that students from various universities in Berlin gathered on the Free University campus 'inspired by the courageous actions of the students at Columbia University' to demand an end to the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and also 'to apartheid, to settler colonialism'.
"Even before we could start, the university administration called for the police, called the police on its own students to evict them, even though they have been demanding only one thing, and that is justice," he stated, remarking that they can 'freely talk' about injustice at the university.
Another protester claimed that 'they are lucky in Germany' to be able to speak up for Palestine. She said: "On the entire planet, people with empathy still are standing up, and I'm happy that they are," expressing hope for more people to stand up and use their voices.
According to media reports, around 100 students set up two dozen tents on the campus in response to the so-called Student Coalition Berlin's call to take German universities.
Students requested that the universities publicly reject planned modifications to Berlin's senate that would allow the expulsion of students based on politics and that criminal charges be withdrawn against students and others who had demonstrated solidarity with Palestinians on campus.
Additionally, they called for the removal of police from German universities and research centres as well as the reinstatement of faculty and staff who had been dismissed or denied funding due to their political beliefs.
The pro-Palestine protests have been taking place on campuses across the world since last month after students at Columbia University in the US erected a protest encampment, calling for the institutions to cut ties with Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war.
Clashes erupt, several detained at Berlin's Free University as pro-Palestine protests continue
Several people have been detained after clashes with police erupted at Berlin's Free University during a pro-Palestine rally on Tuesday.
Footage features protesters holding Palestinian flags, placards, and signs, reading, 'All cops are complicit. End settler colonialism' and chanting: 'Gaza, Gaza you will rise. Palestine will never die!' and 'Entire Berlin hates the police'. Pro-Israel supporters could also be seen on the site with Israeli flags.
Police officers were seen announcing that "anyone who does not leave will be subject to police measures, which will be applied by force if necessary," and then started detaining demonstrators.
A protester, Georg, shared that students from various universities in Berlin gathered on the Free University campus 'inspired by the courageous actions of the students at Columbia University' to demand an end to the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and also 'to apartheid, to settler colonialism'.
"Even before we could start, the university administration called for the police, called the police on its own students to evict them, even though they have been demanding only one thing, and that is justice," he stated, remarking that they can 'freely talk' about injustice at the university.
Another protester claimed that 'they are lucky in Germany' to be able to speak up for Palestine. She said: "On the entire planet, people with empathy still are standing up, and I'm happy that they are," expressing hope for more people to stand up and use their voices.
According to media reports, around 100 students set up two dozen tents on the campus in response to the so-called Student Coalition Berlin's call to take German universities.
Students requested that the universities publicly reject planned modifications to Berlin's senate that would allow the expulsion of students based on politics and that criminal charges be withdrawn against students and others who had demonstrated solidarity with Palestinians on campus.
Additionally, they called for the removal of police from German universities and research centres as well as the reinstatement of faculty and staff who had been dismissed or denied funding due to their political beliefs.
The pro-Palestine protests have been taking place on campuses across the world since last month after students at Columbia University in the US erected a protest encampment, calling for the institutions to cut ties with Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war.
Several people have been detained after clashes with police erupted at Berlin's Free University during a pro-Palestine rally on Tuesday.
Footage features protesters holding Palestinian flags, placards, and signs, reading, 'All cops are complicit. End settler colonialism' and chanting: 'Gaza, Gaza you will rise. Palestine will never die!' and 'Entire Berlin hates the police'. Pro-Israel supporters could also be seen on the site with Israeli flags.
Police officers were seen announcing that "anyone who does not leave will be subject to police measures, which will be applied by force if necessary," and then started detaining demonstrators.
A protester, Georg, shared that students from various universities in Berlin gathered on the Free University campus 'inspired by the courageous actions of the students at Columbia University' to demand an end to the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and also 'to apartheid, to settler colonialism'.
"Even before we could start, the university administration called for the police, called the police on its own students to evict them, even though they have been demanding only one thing, and that is justice," he stated, remarking that they can 'freely talk' about injustice at the university.
Another protester claimed that 'they are lucky in Germany' to be able to speak up for Palestine. She said: "On the entire planet, people with empathy still are standing up, and I'm happy that they are," expressing hope for more people to stand up and use their voices.
According to media reports, around 100 students set up two dozen tents on the campus in response to the so-called Student Coalition Berlin's call to take German universities.
Students requested that the universities publicly reject planned modifications to Berlin's senate that would allow the expulsion of students based on politics and that criminal charges be withdrawn against students and others who had demonstrated solidarity with Palestinians on campus.
Additionally, they called for the removal of police from German universities and research centres as well as the reinstatement of faculty and staff who had been dismissed or denied funding due to their political beliefs.
The pro-Palestine protests have been taking place on campuses across the world since last month after students at Columbia University in the US erected a protest encampment, calling for the institutions to cut ties with Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war.