Data from ACLED, leading source of real-time data on political violence and protest activity across the globe, belies claims of Biden and Trump that Student Spring movement — campus protests against Israel's war on Gaza — is violent.Police have arrested around 200 protesters from the anti-war encampment at UCLA, with the campus police restricting access to the area, and police helicopters hovering overhead.
ACLED report showed that student-led pro-Palestine demonstrations in the US — dubbed"Student Spring" — have almost tripled from April 1 to 26, surpassing the total for the entire month of March 2024. Since April 18, over 2,300 students and faculty have been arrested on college and university grounds amidst a surge of pro-Palestine protests sweeping across the US.