Following student arrests and class cancellations at Columbia University, massive protests have swept across American campuses, with notable demonstrations at Yale and NYU, underscoring rising tensions in US universities over Israel's Gaza invasion.
Following student arrests and class cancellations at Columbia University, massive protests have swept across American campuses, with notable demonstrations at Yale and NYU, underscoring rising tensions in US universities over Israel's Gaza invasion.Police have arrested scores of pro-Palestine student protesters at Yale University, who joined students from various campuses in rallying against Israel's approach to the invasion in Gaza.
In addition to the demonstrations at the Ivy League schools, pro-Palestinian encampments have come up on other campuses, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, and the University of Michigan. A woman inside the campus gates led about two-dozen protesters on the street outside in a chant of,"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" Meanwhile, a small group of pro-Israel counter demonstrators protested nearby.
Yale students are being loaded into Yale buses to be carted off to jail. 36 degrees in New Haven this morning but several hundred peers and professors have gathered to cheer on those willing to be arrested.The protest encampment sprung up at Columbia on Wednesday, the same day that Shafik faced bruising criticism at a congressional hearing from Republicans who said she hadn't done enough to fight antisemitism.
At Yale, police officers arrested about 45 protesters and charged them with misdemeanor trespassing, said Officer Christian Bruckhart, a New Haven police spokesperson.
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