Pro-Palestine protests have exploded on college campuses nationally.
Multiple people were taken into custody last night at New York University, city officials confirmed, adding that officers responded to the campus after university officials requested police. The number was unclear.
Police officers arrested protesters who had set up an encampment on Yale University’s campus in support of the Palestinian cause. In total, 47 students were issued summonses, the university said.
In New York City, classes at Columbia University were held virtually today amid reports of antisemitic and offensive statements and actions on and near its campus.
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, said campus is closed through Wednesday after protesters demonstrating against the war in Gaza occupied Siemens Hall on the campus in Arcata.
Prahlad Iyengar, an MIT graduate student studying electrical engineering, was among about two dozen students who set up a tent encampment on the school’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus Sunday evening. They are calling for a cease-fire and are protesting what they describe as MIT’s “complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he said.
Barnard College says it has offered the students who were suspended after a 30-hour encampment protest at Columbia last week a way to get off interim suspension.
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