- Title: Houthis offer education to students suspended in US protest crackdown
- Date: 3rd May 2024
- Summary: SANAA, YEMEN (MAY 3, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF SANAA UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY BUILDING SIGN READING (Arabic and English) "UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT" RECTOR OF SANAA UNIVERSITY, AL-QASIM MOHAMMED, WALKING THROUGH CAMPUS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RECTOR OF SANAA UNIVERSITY, AL-QASIM MOHAMMED, SAYING: "What prompted us to make such a decision - it was to return the favour to th
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- Keywords: Gaza war SANAA UNVIERSITY USA YEMEN crackdown protests students
- Location: SANAA, YEMEN
- City: SANAA, YEMEN
- Country: Yemen
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
- Reuters ID: LVA001982603052024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israeli protests.
Students have rallied or set up tents at dozens of campuses in the United States in recent days to protest against Israel's war in Gaza, now in its seventh month.
Demonstrators have called on President Joe Biden, who has supported Israel's right to defend itself, to do more to stop the bloodshed in Gaza and demanded schools divest from companies that support Israel's government.
Many of the schools, including Ivy League Columbia University in New York City, have called in police to quell the protests.
"The very least we can do is to open the doors of our universities to accommodate them after they were expelled and oppressed," the rector of Sanaa University, which is run by the Houthis, told Reuters.
Sanaa University had issued a statement applauding the "humanitarian" position of the students in the United States and said they could continue their studies in Yemen.
The U.S. and Britain returned the Houthi militia to a list of terrorist groups this year as their attacks on vessels in and around the Red Sea hurt global economies.
The Houthi's offer of an education for U.S. students sparked a wave of sarcasm by ordinary Yemenis on social media. One social media user posted a photograph of two Westerners chewing Yemen's widely-used narcotic leaf Qat. He described the scene as American students during their fifth year at Sanaa University.
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