Anti-Zionist arrested during protest of IDF soldiers at Florida International University

• Published date: 14 March 2024
• Author: MICHAEL STARR
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Students for Justice in Palestine FIU said that one of its activists had been arrested by the FIU police department and charged with battery. FIU police crime logs list an arrest of a student last Friday for assault and battery

Protesters stood outside the event, chanting "Free Palestine" and calling for the expulsion of two former IDF soldiers from the campus.

"Although FIU has continued to allow soldiers of a genocidal and occupational state on our campus, their presence will never be tolerated by the student body," said SJPFIU.

Jewish and Israeli student groups respond

Students Supporting Israel, one of the co-organizers, said that the protesters were a "Hamas-loving terrorist crowd," and their targeting of a...