At U.C.L.A., Police Arrest More Than 20 Pro-Palestinian Protesters
Protesters marched through campus, pitched tents and occupied various quads in demonstrations that became confrontational at times.
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Protesters marched through campus, pitched tents and occupied various quads in demonstrations that became confrontational at times.
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The lawsuit was part of a wave of litigation against universities over accusations of antisemitism related to campus protests over the war in Gaza.
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With the survivor generation shrinking and antisemitism on the rise around the world, Israel’s Holocaust memorial is stepping up efforts to safeguard its vast collection of artifacts and testimony.
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Nemat Shafik, the university president, called the sentiments in the text messages “unacceptable and deeply upsetting.”
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In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.
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An incident at Columbia suggests that schools beset with antisemitism are beyond salvation.
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Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, say that the workplace they once loved has been fractured by the Israel-Hamas war.
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One report documented antisemitic threats. The other, anti-Muslim threats. Both signaled that there may be little room for agreement.
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I don’t like operating in unison, and I’ve never been much of a tribalist or a joiner.
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Invoking Nazis and pogroms in discussing the Hamas attacks is wrong and offensive and helps the Israeli government avoid responsibility for its failures.
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The department concluded that both schools failed to appropriately respond to complaints that campus protests had veered into antisemitism and anti-Arab discrimination.
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Pro-Palestinian student activists at one Belgian university have borrowed from the U.S. playbook of encampments and slogans. The results, however, have been starkly different.
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As students in Columbia’s class of 2024 received their diplomas, many of them were grappling with what intense activism on campus would mean to their futures.
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With speeches canceled, students at the CUNY School of Law ceremony chanted, carried signs and walked out.
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The actions came as the university chancellor testified before Congress. The university said that it was not aware of the police making any arrests.
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Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption.
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Even before the war in Gaza brought upheaval to college campuses, the Rutgers president was criticized over his response to an instructors’ strike and approval of a tuition increase.
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The president, Sian Leah Beilock, called in the police just hours after a pro-Palestinian encampment went up on campus. A bystander and a professor were injured.
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The authorities had given demonstrators until 7 p.m. to vacate a new encampment that had been erected at a fire-damaged complex on campus.
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The university said 47 people were arrested in the operation, which the chancellor said was prompted by the protesters’ takeover of a lecture hall.
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Local law enforcement went in just a couple of hours after a protest encampment went up.
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At least one person was arrested outside the event in Los Angeles, after pro-Palestinian protesters scuffled with police and private security officers.
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Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation.
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