“Welcome to Japanese university students,” social media users commented on pictures showing Japanese university students joining the global student movement in solidarity with the Gaza Strip for a ceasefire and halting cooperation with Israeli occupation universities.

The pro-Palestinian protests expanded across universities around the world, so that 5 Japanese universities in Tokyo, in addition to the universities of Sofia, Tama Art, International Christian University, and Hiroshima International University, witnessed pro-Palestine activities.

Pro-Palestinian students and activists set up tents in front of their universities, and placed Palestinian flags above their protest camp, chanting slogans, including “Long live free Palestine.”

Earlier, students at Waseda University in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, went out in a demonstration in support of the people of Gaza, which was widely circulated among users of social media platforms.

Social media platforms praised the Japanese universities that joined the pro-Palestinian protests.

Students from Japanese universities expressed solidarity with American university students who are subjected to repression and harassment by security forces.

Some tweeters believed that the residents of Japan are well aware of the meaning of genocide that the Gaza Strip is suffering as a result of the Israeli aggression, and one of them said, “Japan suffered from the atomic bomb dropped by the United States of America, and the Japanese know the meaning of genocide as a result of that suffering, the effects of which continue to this day.” ".

Protests against the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip continue in many universities around the world, and in America, many university administrations have insisted on the necessity of dispersing the sit-ins, and US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has proposed confiscating the visas of foreign students participating in the demonstrations.

According to American media, the number of detainees during student protests at American universities that are witnessing sit-ins reached about 2,200 students.

Since last April 18, students and university professors who reject the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip have begun a sit-in on the campus of Columbia University in New York, demanding that its administration stop its academic cooperation with Israeli universities and withdraw its investments in companies that support the occupation.

The student movement later expanded, with demonstrations extending to dozens of universities in the United States and abroad.