How the Columbia protests sparked campus demonstrations across the country


by NBC News

NBC News— It just added fuel to the fire. The decision by Columbia University’s president, Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations that have erupted at universities in New York City and across the country in recent days, students and faculty members said. Since Thursday, when police arrested 108 Columbia University demonstrators, including Rep....

WWLP.com—Campus protests grow across the country. Across the U.S. antiwar protests on college campuses are causing controversy.

Time—Pro-Palestinian Protests Spark on College Campuses Across the Globe. Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe.

Washington Free Beacon—College Dems Endorse 'Protests for Peace' as Demonstrators Trash Columbia Campus. College Democrats of America, the Democratic Party’s official student organization, on Tuesday endorsed the "protests for peace" across U.S. college campuses amid violent, weeks-long anti-Israel demonstrations that have shut down Columbia University.