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Over 100 people were arrested last week at Columbia University’s campus where students protested against the Israel-Hamas war. Similar encampments and protests have since sprouted up at universities like UC Berkeley, Cal Poly Humboldt, UCLA, Harvard, USC, Yale, NYU, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Texas at Austin. Student activists are demanding an end to US military aid to Israel, a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, and for their universities to sign on to the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.

Inspired by the Columbia University campus occupation, protest encampments have emerged on at least eight American universities demanding divestment and support for Palestine. The encampments, which started on Wednesday, have been established at Yale University, University of Michigan, New York University, The New School, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, and Rutgers University.