Antoinette Radford

Nearly all pro-Palestinian protests rocking college campuses across the US have called for universities to divest from Israel in some form.

NYPD officers used flash-bang grenades Tuesday night to breach Columbia's Hamilton Hall, which protesters had barricaded themselves inside, the police department told CNN.

The Los Angeles Police Department "has arrived on campus" at UCLA, mayor Karen Bass said early on Wednesday.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik addressed the campus community in a letter released Wednesday, after police had cleared the school grounds of protests, noting that the “drastic escalation” of months-long protests “pushed the University to the brink."

The New York Police Department estimates the agency may need to deploy about 15 to 20 officers to Columbia University depending on the university’s security needs after Tuesday night’s breakdown of on-campus encampments to secure school grounds, NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey told CNN.

After law enforcement arrested protesters and removed multiple tents out of an encampment on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday morning, tents are back up again, as police left the premises.

On Sunday, the Emory Police Department (EPD) arrested a convicted felon, who had crossed state lines to come to the university’s campus amid protests, according to a release from Emory University.

The House has passed a bill that would more broadly expand the definition of antisemitism. It comes as pro-Palestinian protests have sprung up on college campuses across the country, much in response to the Israel-Hamas war.

Fifteen people were injured and one was hospitalized after protesters and counterprotesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, authorities said on Wednesday.

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