Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia

As tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict continue to boil on campuses across the United States, Columbia University on Monday moved classes online while dozens of students were arrested in protests at Yale and New York University, and school officials closed Harvard Yard to the public.

Demonstrations at Yale and Harvard were planned in part out of solidarity with protesters at Columbia.

The protesters set up an encampment last week that led to the arrest of more than 100 students.

In addition to the demonstrations at the Ivy League schools, pro-Palestinian encampments have sprouted up on other campuses, including the University of Michigan, New York University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The protests have raised concerns for the safety of Jewish students and fueled a national debate over student demonstrations as campuses grapple with growing unrest over the conflict in Gaza.

As demonstrations have proliferated across college campuses, students have also been demanding that universities show more transparency in their investments and divest from enterprises with links to Israel's conflict effort.

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[haniahannslew]

I am glad to see students and professors coming out to protest. Why arresting students and professors for practicing their right of free speech?

[DailyBeatings]

Zionism and Judaism are two different things. People are against the former and not the latter...🕊☮

[Way]

There are many good American people, despite their toxic government.

[bungkusi]

Where is Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia university?

[tffhsyc]

Spot the under cover intelligence agents.

[BridgingCulturesChinaAmerica]

Where is Nancy Pelosi? "It's a beautiful sight to behold."

[johncody]

Fine that Shanghai Eye wants to focus on protests in the US. But they don't really qualify. How about an in-depth documentary on the 1989 Tiananmen Protests? Or a documentary about the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution? You know your people are still trying to get details about these historical events? Great that you guys want in on what's happening in the world but you're just not credible in these sort of events.

[topsuperseven]

It's quite an amazing thing to see just how zealous these groups have become. Seen among them have been lots of 'Free East Turkestan' which we know as 'Xinjiang' a province in West Taiwan. "Free Uighurs' and various signage and chants.

[hamidbli]

Dear Columbia and yale
Students,
you are the epitome of moral courage and fierce resistence against your oppressive adminstration and the corrupt politicians who are being paid by AIPAC and the zionists. You are enduring brutal silencing by your cowardly adminstration and our corrupt and self serving politicians.
Long live tte columbia and yale students
resistance!
Long live the
palestinian resistance!
We are in solidarity with you!