As Israel's leader equates U.S. university protests to rallies in Nazi Germany, Palestinian students tell CBS News what the support means to them.
As pro-Palestinian protests spread on university campuses across the United States, leading to hundreds of arrests, young Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip have told CBS News they appreciate the support from America. Israel 's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has condemned the demonstrations as antisemitic and even compared them to rallies held in Germany almost 100 years ago, as the Nazi party rose to power on a wave of anti-Jewish hate.
'There have been hundreds of arrests on campuses from New York to California and, while most of the protesters stress that they are demonstrating against Israel's war in Gaza and its decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory, Jewish student organizations say incidents of antisemitism have left people afraid to even venture onto their campuses.In a video statement released Wednesday evening, Netanyahu, speaking in English, lambasted the protests in the U.S.
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