Anti-war demonstrations broke out in colleges and universities across the United States. More than 100 people were arrested and their demands escalated.

Recently, demonstrations broke out in many university campuses in the United States, mainly from many well-known universities. They strongly demand a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza and urge the US government to stop its military assistance to Israel. Although some American politicians tried to characterize the demonstrators as "anti-Semitic", the momentum of the anti-war movement did not weaken, but became more and more intense.

On April 22nd, demonstrations continued in new york University. On the same day, a total of 133 demonstrators were arrested by the police for allegedly disturbing public order and subsequently released. In addition, the demonstrations also spread to Yale University, where more than 60 demonstrators were arrested, including 47 students. The wave of demonstrations not only swept the east coast, such as New Haven, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts, but also spread to the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota at St. Paul in the midwest, as well as the Humboldt campus of California State Polytechnic University and the University of California at Berkeley in the west coast.

Since the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out in October last year, supportive demonstrations against Palestine have occurred from time to time in American university campuses. However, the scale of recent demonstrations in Columbia University and the large number of arrested participants have undoubtedly injected new impetus into the anti-war movement. Demonstrators set up camps on the campus of Columbia University to express their concern and protest against the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

At present, the Gaza Strip is in a serious humanitarian crisis due to the conflict. According to statistics, more than 34,000 people have been killed in Israeli military operations, most of them women and children, another 70,000 people have been injured and millions have been displaced. Faced with this situation, the US Congress passed a bill on 23rd, approving the provision of more than $10 billion in military assistance to Israel. At the same time, the United States also cast the only negative vote in the United Nations Security Council, vetoing the draft resolution on Palestine becoming a member of the United Nations. These actions further aroused the anger of the demonstrators.

In addition to calling for a cease-fire and stopping military assistance, the demonstrators also demanded that their universities sever ties with Israeli arms suppliers and other enterprises that benefited from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and revoke the expulsion or disciplinary decision on students and faculty who participated in the demonstration. Demonstrators are ethnically diverse, including Muslims and Jews, and are jointly organized by groups such as "Students for Justice for Palestine" and "Jewish Voice for Peace".

In response to the wave of demonstrations in colleges and universities, US President Biden condemned the so-called "anti-Semitic demonstrations" on the 22nd, and accused some demonstrators of not understanding the situation of Palestinians. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Republican, thought that the demonstration at Columbia University posed a "threat" to Jewish students and described it as a non-peaceful "anti-Semitic atrocity". However, the organizers of the demonstration denied the existence of anti-Semitism, pointing out that the radical words of individual people could not represent the whole movement, and many Jewish students who did not participate in the demonstration reported that the demonstration was generally peaceful and did not feel that their personal safety was threatened.