DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to show support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now shutting down U.S. universities for holding anti-Israel protests. We offer admission to students who have been suspended from school.
Students have been holding rallies and setting up tents on dozens of campuses across the United States in recent days to protest Israel's war in Gaza, which has entered its seventh month.
Demonstrators called on President Joe Biden, who has supported Israel's right to defend itself, to do more to stop bloodshed in Gaza and to divest schools from companies that support the Israeli government. .
Many schools, including the Ivy League's Columbia University in New York City, called in police to quell the protests.
An official at Sana'a University, run by the Houthis, told Reuters: “We are seriously working to accept students who have been suspended from American universities for supporting Palestinians.” “We are fighting this battle with Palestine in every way possible.”
Sana'a University issued a statement praising the “humanitarian” position of its students in the United States and saying they would be able to continue their studies in Yemen.
“We condemn the oppression of freedom of expression suffered by scholars and students at universities in the United States and Europe,” the university's board of governors said in a statement, adding an email address for students who wish to have their freedom of expression suppressed. Specified. their offer.
The United States and Britain placed the Houthi militia back on their list of terrorist organizations this year after their attacks on ships in and around the Red Sea devastated the global economy.
The Houthis' offer to educate American students sparked a wave of cynicism from ordinary Yemenis on social media. A social media user posted a photo of two Westerners chewing leaf khat, a drug widely used in Yemen. He described the scene as a fifth-year American student at Sanaa University.
(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Michael Georgy and Maha El Dahan; Editing by Alex Richardson)