Round up of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses
Reuters news agency reports that around 550 arrests have been made in the last week across major US universities as police crackdown on peaceful protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Here’s what we know:
Columbia University Police arrested more than 100 protesters when they tried to clear a Gaza solidarity encampment last week.
University of Southern California More than 90 people were arrested on Wednesday night for alleged trespassing.
University of Texas at Austin The campus was calmer on Thursday, a day after police arrested dozens of students.
George Washington University About 50 students set up a tent encampment on Thursday.
Harvard University The university locked most gates into its famous Harvard Yard this week but a camp with still set up.
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt The university said protesters continue to occupy two buildings on campus.
Emerson College Boston police said on Thursday that 108 people were arrested at an encampment.
New York University Police said 133 protesters had been taken into custody on Wednesday.
Emory University Police dismantled a camp on Thursday morning. The Associated Press news agency counted at least 17 people detained.
Northwestern University Administrators changed the student code of conduct on Thursday to bar tents on its campus as student activists set up an encampment. No arrests have been reported yet.
Yale University Protests continued Thursday after Monday’s arrest of 48 people.
Fashion Institute of Technology Protesters set up tents and occupied a building on Thursday at the institute, part of the State University of New York system.
City College of New York Police and campus security confronted protesters but failed to clear their encampment on Thursday.
Indiana University Bloomington Police made a number of arrests on Thursday afternoon.
Michigan State University East Lansing Campus Nearly 30 tents were set up on Thursday afternoon.
US students resolute as pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread across US universities
University of California Los Angeles [UCLA] students set up a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus to advocate for Palestine in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday
A sign calling attention to the conflict in Gaza rests against a tent on Thursday at an encampment of tents on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
People gather near an encampment of tents at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A statue of the first US President George Washington adorned with a Palestinian keffiyeh and a Palestinian flag as students demonstrate at George Washington University in Washington, DC
A protester holds a sign as students demonstrate at George Washington University
Columbia University removes encampment deadline
The university, where some 200 students have set up a pro-Palestine protest camp on campus, has said it will not enforce an overnight deadline it had set to dismantle the encampment, as it continues negotiations with demonstrators.
“The talks have shown progress and are continuing as planned,” said a statement by the university’s president Minouche Shafik about an hour before the midnight (04:00 GMT) deadline. “We have our demands; they have theirs.”
The statement also denied that New York City police had been called to campus.
New York’s Columbia University was the first university where major protests over the war in Gaza broke out last week. The protests have since spread to dozens of college campuses throughout the US, with police making upwards of 550 arrests to break up the peaceful rallies and try to clear encampments.
Students prepare to spend another night maintaining a protest encampment in support of Palestinians on the Columbia University campus in New York City, US, on April 24
Pro-Palestine protests at US colleges enter second week
Despite violent police crackdowns, suspensions and admonitions from right-wing politicians, student protesters at dozens of US colleges are continuing their campus demonstrations over the Gaza war into a second week.
“Young people have always pushed our government to do better, whether it was through the civil rights movement, whether it was to end the Vietnam war,” said US Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who visited the pro-Palestine protest camp at New York’s Columbia University on Thursday to relay her support.
“I think they are on the right side of history in pushing our country not to stay complicit in the genocide that is taking place in Gaza.”
Professors arrested as US police use ‘violence’ to clear university camp
Protesters have accused police of excessive force during arrests at an antiwar protest camp at Atlanta’s Emory University, where one female professor was hauled to the ground and detained, and another demonstrator tasered.
