As some universities negotiate with pro-Palestinian protesters, others quickly call the police
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Hundreds have been arrested across the nation, sometimes amid scuffles with police.
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At least three universities have either closed their campuses or resorted to online classes as they work to quell the recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
After dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Columbia, Yale and NYU, students at colleges from Massachusetts to Minnesota to California are erecting encampments in solidarity.
What began last week when students at a New York Ivy League school refused to end their protest against Israel’s war with Hamas has turned into a much larger movement.
Protests are happening at colleges across the country, including Columbia, Yale universities. University leaders face pressure to both support free speech and protect students.
Many universities have about two weeks of classes left before the semester ends and have been grappling with how to handle the protests, which have spread nationwide.
Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas.
Dozens were arrested Monday at N.Y.U. and Yale, but officials there and at campuses across the country are running out of options to corral protests that are expected to last the rest of the school year.
Students at several US universities have staged large protests in response to Israel's military operations in Gaza. Student arrests have sparked outrage, but demonstrators have also been accused of antisemitism.
Officials face the challenge of defusing tensions over pro-Palestinian protests while striking a balance between the right to protest and campus safety.
Increasingly confrontational pro-Palestinian rallies by students protesting the death toll from the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted across US college campuses Wednesday, triggering tense faceoffs with police in Texas and California.
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. From Massachusetts to California, students
Students at an increasing number of US universities are gathering in protest camps to demand that their schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies that are enabling its months-long…
Students from Massachusetts to California are now gathering by the hundreds on campuses, setting up tent camps, and pledging to stay put until their demands are met.
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