Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at colleges across the U.S. are being suspended after, defying requests to leave.
Police arrested approximately 100 people at an anti-Israel encampment on Saturday at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Student protesters have erected more than 100 "Gaza Solidarity" tent encampments on college campuses across the United States in recent weeks. College presidents and provosts from coast to coast have issued statements addressing the disruptions. Some of them have stamped them out expeditiously, while others have fanned the flames. Below we present those statements—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Anti-Israel protesters at New York University were arrested on Monday evening in relation to their involvement in an anti-Israel encampment.
MANHATTAN—New York City police officers entered Columbia University on Tuesday night to arrest students who seized a school building, a move that came after president Minouche Shafik declined for days to bring police to campus as unsanctioned protesters refused to leave their "Gaza Solidarity" encampment.
New York City police cleared an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University on Thursday, one day after the school's president, Minouche Shafik, appeared before Congress to testify about antisemitism on campus.
Police raided an anti-Israel encampment at Fordham University this week, arresting 15 people.
I really do love living in Florida, and how we have handled these antisemitic whackjobs openly proclaiming their love of Hamas on college campuses just further demonstrates why. Down at the University of South Florida in Tampa, police arrested several pro-Hamas demonstrators after dispersing them with tear gas.
The University of Texas in Austin has suspended a pro-Hamas student organization after a series of raucous protests that were held on its campus. The move comes after law enforcement cracked down on several demonstrations taking place in Texas universities.
Northwestern University officials announced Monday that it had reached an agreement with anti-Israel protesters that included funding for Palestinian scholarships and for Palestinian visiting faculty members. The agreement comes five days after the pro-Palestinian demonstrators began building an encampment in the middle of Deering Meadow on the Evanston Campus. WBBM-TV reported soon after the agreement was announced that tents were already being dismantled. “This agreement was forged by the...
By JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police bulldozed into student protesters at a Texas university Wednesday, arresting over a dozen people including a local news photographer, while new student encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges in part of a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. As universities