Scenes of Protests at College Campuses
The crackdown at Columbia this month led to more campus demonstrations and hundreds of arrests so far.
A police officer with a helmet stands with his back to a crowd.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including university students, rallied at an encampment in support of Gaza at Alumni Park on the University of Southern California’s campus on Wednesday.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times
By The New York Times
Text by Troy Closson
Published April 22, 2024 ... Updated April 29, 2024, 12:53 a.m. ET
Protests and arrests spread across some of America’s most influential universities this month, as administrators struggled to defuse tensions on campuses over pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Since Columbia University started cracking down on pro-Palestinian protesters occupying a lawn on its New York City campus, encampments and protests against the war in Gaza have sprung up at various other prominent universities, including Yale, M.I.T., the University of Southern California and Emory University. Police interventions on several campuses have led to more than 800 arrests.
The flurry of protests has presented a steep challenge for university leaders, as some Jewish students say they have faced harassment and antisemitic comments.
Here are scenes from the protests.
Sunday, April 28
Protesters clash with University of Pittsburgh police officers while graduates get their photo taken with family members.
A protester at the University of Pittsburgh lays flowers beneath Palestinian flags bearing the names of those killed in Gaza.
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A protester at the University of Pittsburgh lays flowers beneath Palestinian flags bearing the names of those killed in Gaza.
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People stand in a crowd, some holding signs, while another holds a flag.
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The Gaza solidarity rally took place on Sunday during graduation commencement.
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People stand around tents that are pitched on an open green space.
Credit...Sophie Park for The New York Times
Students remain at an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sunday.
Saturday, April 27
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The base of a statue of a trojan near an ivy-covered building is defaced with graffiti. In red letters, the message says, “Say no to genocide.” A man in a red jacket stands to the right.
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The “Tommy Trojan” statue is watched over by a campus worker after it was defaced by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the U.S.C. campus in Los Angeles late Saturday.
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Five people, four of them wearing ceremonial sashes, walk down a paved path past a protest encampment. One sign in the encampment says, “Bombing Kids Is Not Self Defense.”
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Members of the U.S.C. graduating class of 2024 walk past the protest encampment after having graduation portraits taken nearby on Saturday.
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A child makes bubbles outside on a clear day. Behind him is a woman in a head scarf and metal barricades. To her left is a tree, and then several tents near a brick building.
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators rally at the tent encampment in support of Gaza on the U.C.L.A. campus on Saturday.
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[crowd chanting] Free, free Palestine. Cops go home. Cops go home. Cops go home.
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Protesters chanted as the police cleared an encampment at Northeastern University in Boston on Saturday.
Friday, April 26
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A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag near East Hall during a protest at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. on Friday.
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Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
A man watches from a building as University of Chicago students and faculty lead a march and rally through campus on Friday.
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A U.C.L.A. student watches a protest encampment from inside a classroom in Royce Hall before their midterm mathematics exam.
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Members of the Islamic faith at the U.C.L.A. encampment pause for evening prayers.
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Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times
Pro-Palestinian protesters, including some students from Jewish Voice for Peace at U.C.L.A., begin Friday evening Sabbath services at sundown inside the encampment.
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Credit...Nicole Craine for The New York Times
Protesters march through campus at Emory University in Atlanta on Friday.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters write phone numbers for legal representation on their arms in case they are arrested while demonstrating at Northeastern University in Boston.
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[crowd chanting] Disclose, divest. We will not stop, we will not rest.
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Protesters at Arizona State University gathered on campus Friday in Tempe, Ariz.
Thursday, April 25
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied at a newly formed “solidarity” encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.
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Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
Students and community members prayed in front of a tent encampment on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
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Students and community members prayed in front of a tent encampment on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
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A counterprotester in support of Israel spoke to the media about his thoughts outside the encampment at University of California, Los Angeles.
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Officers at the City College of New York were pushed back by a crowd after trying to remove a person from the area during a protest.
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Pro-Palestinian and anti-police graffiti was removed from where the encampment on Emerson College’s campus was before it was dismantled by the police in Boston.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators linked arms as police officers surrounded an encampment at Northeastern University in Boston on Thursday.
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Students continued their protest at Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus.
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Students at the University of Texas at Austin gathered on campus after a pro-Palestine demonstration. Dozens of students, faculty members and others were arrested on Wednesday after clashes with state law enforcement officials.
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At Northwestern University, protesters formed a line to prevent law enforcement officials from entering their encampment on Deering Meadow.
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Protesters at the City College of New York in New York City.
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An encampment at George Washington University in Washington.
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“Let them go!” “Let them go!” Crowd: “Let them go. Let them go. Let them go. Let them go. Let them go.”
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Law enforcement officials detained several protesters at Emory University a few hours after an encampment was set up on the university grounds.
Wednesday, April 24
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Protesters at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles surrounded a campus police car on Wednesday, demanding that a detained protester be released.
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A police officer bends down besides a tent on a lawn. There are buildings and trees in the background.
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Campus police checked for student IDs at a pro-Palestinian encampment at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
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People gathered in tents on the steps and grass in front of Sproul Hall at Berkeley.
Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times
University of California, Berkeley, students set up tents on the Savio steps at Sproul Plaza.
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Protesters and police officers gathered during a pro-Palestinian protest at Alumni Park at the University of Southern California.
Tuesday, April 23
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A line of police officers watch a group of protestors next to a subway entrance waving flags.
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Officers from the New York Police Department monitoring a protest on Broadway outside Columbia University shortly after its president, Nemat Shafik, sent an email about negotiations between demonstrators and university officials.
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Two people lift a green tent and walk on a blue tarp in front of Columbia’s Butler Library.
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Several tents were moved from the Gaza-solidarity encampment at Columbia late Tuesday evening.
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Three people walk on a Manhattan sidewalk past a large wood wall shielding a plaza on a sunny day.
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Wooden boards were put up on the campus of New York University after arrests took place there Monday night.
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Two pairs of hands hold onto a piece of matzo over a green table.
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Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sharing matzo during a Seder hosted by a campus group, MIT Jews for Ceasefire.
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A crowd is gathered at Washington Square Park, with many people holding up signs. Trees and buildings are in the background.
Credit...Andres Kudacki for The New York Times
Protesters at Washington Square Park in New York City demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
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People sit on concrete steps facing toward a brick plaza where tents have been set up.
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Students set up tents at Sproul Plaza on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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A person blows soap bubbles on a sidewalk while two others, one holding a guitar, sit on a bench.
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Students at an encampment at Emerson College in Boston protesting the war in Gaza.
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A crowd stands on a grass lawn, many cupping their hands to their mouths as they shout. Some hold signs and a Palestinian flag.
Credit...Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times
Students and community members protested outside Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Monday, April 22
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A group of people are bathed in red light from a flare being held up by one person. Another person waves a Palestinian flag.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators near the N.Y.U. campus after arrests by the police.
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Police officers taking protesters into custody at N.Y.U.
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People raise their fists or hold up cellphones as a bus with Police Department markings passes with people looking out the windows.
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People arrested at a pro-Palestinian demonstration at N.Y.U. on Monday were taken away on an N.Y.P.D. bus.
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A group of people, some holding signs, link arms on a sidewalk with tents and a campus building in the background.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators awaiting the arrival of the police on the N.Y.U. campus on Monday.
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Protesters siting among tents at night.
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An encampment of demonstrators protesting the war in Gaza on Kresge Lawn at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Mass.
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Several tents, some of which have homemade signs, at night. “Gazan kids were not born to die” and “Liberated zone” are among the signs’ messages.
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The M.I.T. protest encampment remained up on Monday night.
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Students stand inside a window in a building in the background. A Palestinian flag waves in the foreground.
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Students inside the Stern School of Business building at N.Y.U. watched the demonstrations from above.
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People kneel on prayer rugs and bow their heads to the ground on a plaza as others standing in the background looking on. A building with an N.Y.U. banner on it facade is behind them.
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Some pro-Palestinian demonstrators engaged in prayers at N.Y.U. as others looked on.
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The tent encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the plaza outside the business school’s entrance.
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People walk on a plaza outside a building, some clapping their hands.
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Protesters marched outside University Center, one of the main buildings at the New School’s Greenwich Village campus.
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A group of protesters hold signs that read “Kidnapped by Terrorists” outside the gates of the Columbia campus.
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A group of demonstrators gathered at a pro-Israel rally outside the main gates of Columbia.
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An overhead view of tents lining a campus lawn with people gathered among them and campus buildings beyond.
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The encampment at Columbia was put back up by protesters after being removed the previous week.
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People wearing academic caps and gowns hold signs with slogans such as “End student suspensions now,” “Restore faculty governance” and “hands off our students.”
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In a show of support for students who had been arrested and suspended, faculty members at Columbia took part in a walkout on Monday.
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A crowd gathered on a campus lawn faces a group standing in the foreground with their backs to the camera.
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Hundreds of people stood to listen to faculty members speaking as part of the walkout.
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People sit or kneel on the ground, painting slogans and the colors of the Palestinian flag on plastic buckets.
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Student demonstrators gathered at the Diag, a central location on the University of Michigan campus.
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A woman holds out her hand as another applies a pattern in henna.
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At the University of Michigan, a student protester applied a henna tattoo depicting a pattern that symbolizes Palestine onto the wrist of another demonstrator.
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People bow in prayer on a blue tarp spread on a grassy lawn. A sign leaning against a tent in the foreground reads, “MIT out of Palestine.” A Palestinian flag, other tents and a building with an arcing facade are in the background.
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Demonstrators prayed together at the encampment organized by protesters at M.I.T., in Cambridge, Mass.
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A man raises an Israeli flag in front of his body during a protest. His silhouette can be seen as sunlight shines through the flag.
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Supporters of Israel at Columbia on Monday morning.
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Crowd: “We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose, divest. We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose, divest.” Crowd: “Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine.”
Crowd: “We will not stop,
we will not rest.
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Pro-Palestinian students at Yale University gathered on campus chanting, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”
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A group of students sit on the streets and sidewalk outside an administration building at Yale. Several hold signs in support of Palestine.
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Students on the Yale campus took part in protests, even after arrests had been made earlier on Monday.
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“Free, free Palestine.” “Back up — everybody’s got to back up.”
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Outside Columbia’s gates, New York City police officers detained a pro-Palestinian demonstrator.
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Representative Mike Lawler, in a blue suit, speaks into microphones on a cordoned street, surrounded by people, including some holding Israeli flags.
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Representative Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, calling for Columbia’s president to “resign in disgrace.”
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Stickers are applied to a bronze wall decoration in the shape of the face of a lion with a ring held in its mouth.
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Pro-Palestinian stickers near the entrance of Butler Library at Columbia.
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[crowd clapping and cheering] How about you have the courage to open the gate? And let’s see what happens.
[crowd clapping and cheering]
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Protesters gathered around Columbia’s College Walk, the main pedestrian thoroughfare on the campus, as a speaker addressed them from the Sundial, a campus landmark.
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A man, wearing a face mask showing the Israeli flag, holds a hybrid U.S.-Israeli flag.
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A pro-Israel demonstrator outside Columbia University’s campus gates.
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A woman holding a bullhorn speaks on the steps of a plaza surrounded by other protesters.
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Protesters at N.Y.U. demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
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A group of tents are set up on the lawn in front of a domed building at M.I.T.
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Students erected encampments at several Boston-area universities, including M.I.T., to show solidarity with Palestinians and with protesters at Columbia.
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A group of men and women wearing traditional Palestinian scarves bang on orange Home Depot buckets with drumsticks during a protest.
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Students at M.I.T. formed an improvised drum circle during the protests.
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An aerial view of a large crowd gathered around a protester, who is standing on the Sundial and speaking into a bullhorn.
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Protesters gathered around Columbia’s College Walk as a speaker addressed them from the Sundial.
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Officers, some with batches of plastic restraints attached to their uniforms, lined up at a news conference held by the N.Y.P.D. outside the Columbia campus on Monday.
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Six people, several wearing head scarves, most of them with patterns, are seen from behind with arms interlocking.
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A group of pro-Palestinian students guarding their protest site on Columbia’s central campus lawn.
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The “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” dominates Columbia’s South Fields, facing Low Library, the space where commencement exercises are scheduled next month.
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Shai Davidai, in a black hooded sweatshirt and glasses, speaks to a gathered crowd in front of the gates of the Columbia campus.
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Shai Davidai, a Jewish Columbia professor, speaking outside the campus gates on Monday after saying his university identification card had been deactivated. A petition, which has garnered more than 10,000 signatures, has sought his termination, accusing him of harassment of pro-Palestinian students.
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A student stands in the center of an intersection outside a gothic building, speaking into a microphone as other students fill the intersection to listen. Protest messages have been written in chalk on the street.
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Students at Yale occupied an intersection near Woodbridge Hall.
Sunday, April 21
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A female student walks in front of a group of demonstrators gathered along a police barricade. In the foreground, a Palestinian flag is visible.
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Protesters rallied outside Columbia’s gates. Some protesters, unaffiliated with the university, made antisemitic comments toward Jewish students.
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A row of tents sits behind piles of supplies on a campus at night with lamps on posts glowing beyond.
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Tents that had previously been removed were again set up on the campus lawn by demonstrators.
Thursday, April 18
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Students on Columbia’s South Fields being escorted by police officers in blue uniforms. Around them are tents. In the background is Low Library, a colonnaded classical building. People are standing on the steps, on College Walk and the fields.
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More than 100 Pro-Palestinian activists were arrested last week when Columbia’s president said she had taken the “extraordinary step” to call in the police “because these are extraordinary circumstances.”
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Cornel West, wearing a suit and speaking into a bullhorn as he points up with his left hand, stands amid people seated on a campus lawn.
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Cornel West addressed student protesters.
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Tents fill a campus lawn. Hand-painted banners read “Liberated zone” and “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
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The student demonstrators were not deterred by rainstorms on Thursday. They remained in tents before the encampment was eventually removed.
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Police officers in blue uniforms and helmets face a group of protesters who are gesturing and shouting.
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The administration called the N.Y.P.D. onto the campus. Over 100 students were arrested on Thursday.
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Officers from the New York Police Department monitoring a protest on Broadway outside Columbia University shortly after its president, Nemat Shafik, sent an email about negotiations between demonstrators and university officials.
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Two people lift a green tent and walk on a blue tarp in front of Columbia’s Butler Library.
Credit...C.S. Muncy for The New York Times
Several tents were moved from the Gaza-solidarity encampment at Columbia late Tuesday evening.
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Three people walk on a Manhattan sidewalk past a large wood wall shielding a plaza on a sunny day.
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Wooden boards were put up on the campus of New York University after arrests took place there Monday night.
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Two pairs of hands hold onto a piece of matzo over a green table.
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Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sharing matzo during a Seder hosted by a campus group, MIT Jews for Ceasefire.
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A crowd is gathered at Washington Square Park, with many people holding up signs. Trees and buildings are in the background.
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Protesters at Washington Square Park in New York City demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
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People sit on concrete steps facing toward a brick plaza where tents have been set up.
Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Students set up tents at Sproul Plaza on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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A person blows soap bubbles on a sidewalk while two others, one holding a guitar, sit on a bench.
Credit...Sophie Park for The New York Times
Students at an encampment at Emerson College in Boston protesting the war in Gaza.
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A crowd stands on a grass lawn, many cupping their hands to their mouths as they shout. Some hold signs and a Palestinian flag.
Credit...Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times
Students and community members protested outside Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Monday, April 22
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A group of people are bathed in red light from a flare being held up by one person. Another person waves a Palestinian flag.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators near the N.Y.U. campus after arrests by the police.
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Police officers taking protesters into custody at N.Y.U.
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People raise their fists or hold up cellphones as a bus with Police Department markings passes with people looking out the windows.
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People arrested at a pro-Palestinian demonstration at N.Y.U. on Monday were taken away on an N.Y.P.D. bus.
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A group of people, some holding signs, link arms on a sidewalk with tents and a campus building in the background.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators awaiting the arrival of the police on the N.Y.U. campus on Monday.
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Protesters siting among tents at night.
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An encampment of demonstrators protesting the war in Gaza on Kresge Lawn at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Mass.
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Several tents, some of which have homemade signs, at night. “Gazan kids were not born to die” and “Liberated zone” are among the signs’ messages.
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The M.I.T. protest encampment remained up on Monday night.
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Students stand inside a window in a building in the background. A Palestinian flag waves in the foreground.
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Students inside the Stern School of Business building at N.Y.U. watched the demonstrations from above.
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People kneel on prayer rugs and bow their heads to the ground on a plaza as others standing in the background looking on. A building with an N.Y.U. banner on it facade is behind them.
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Some pro-Palestinian demonstrators engaged in prayers at N.Y.U. as others looked on.
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The tent encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the plaza outside the business school’s entrance.
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People walk on a plaza outside a building, some clapping their hands.
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Protesters marched outside University Center, one of the main buildings at the New School’s Greenwich Village campus.
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A group of protesters hold signs that read “Kidnapped by Terrorists” outside the gates of the Columbia campus.
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A group of demonstrators gathered at a pro-Israel rally outside the main gates of Columbia.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including university students, rallied at an encampment in support of Gaza at Alumni Park on the University of Southern California’s campus on Wednesday.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times
Scenes of Protests at College Campuses
The crackdown at Columbia this month led to more campus demonstrations and hundreds of arrests so far.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including university students, rallied at an encampment in support of Gaza at Alumni Park on the University of Southern California’s campus on Wednesday.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times
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By The New York TimesText by Troy Closson
Published April 22, 2024
Updated April 29, 2024, 12:53 a.m. ET
Protests and arrests spread across some of America’s most influential universities this month, as administrators struggled to defuse tensions on campuses over pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Since Columbia University started cracking down on pro-Palestinian protesters occupying a lawn on its New York City campus, encampments and protests against the war in Gaza have sprung up at various other prominent universities, including Yale, M.I.T., the University of Southern California and Emory University. Police interventions on several campuses have led to more than 800 arrests.
The flurry of protests has presented a steep challenge for university leaders, as some Jewish students say they have faced harassment and antisemitic comments.
Here are scenes from the protests.
Sunday, April 28
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Four people stand for a photo as a crowd of protesters gather near them facing police.
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Protesters clash with University of Pittsburgh police officers while graduates get their photo taken with family members.
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A person squats in front of rows of flags.
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A protester at the University of Pittsburgh lays flowers beneath Palestinian flags bearing the names of those killed in Gaza.
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People stand in a crowd, some holding signs, while another holds a flag.
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The Gaza solidarity rally took place on Sunday during graduation commencement.
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People stand around tents that are pitched on an open green space.
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Students remain at an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sunday.
Saturday, April 27
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The base of a statue of a trojan near an ivy-covered building is defaced with graffiti. In red letters, the message says, “Say no to genocide.” A man in a red jacket stands to the right.
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The “Tommy Trojan” statue is watched over by a campus worker after it was defaced by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the U.S.C. campus in Los Angeles late Saturday.
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Five people, four of them wearing ceremonial sashes, walk down a paved path past a protest encampment. One sign in the encampment says, “Bombing Kids Is Not Self Defense.”
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Members of the U.S.C. graduating class of 2024 walk past the protest encampment after having graduation portraits taken nearby on Saturday.
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A child makes bubbles outside on a clear day. Behind him is a woman in a head scarf and metal barricades. To her left is a tree, and then several tents near a brick building.
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators rally at the tent encampment in support of Gaza on the U.C.L.A. campus on Saturday.
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[crowd chanting] Free, free Palestine. Cops go home. Cops go home. Cops go home.
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Protesters chanted as the police cleared an encampment at Northeastern University in Boston on Saturday.
Friday, April 26
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A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag near East Hall during a protest at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. on Friday.
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A man watches from a building as University of Chicago students and faculty lead a march and rally through campus on Friday.
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A U.C.L.A. student watches a protest encampment from inside a classroom in Royce Hall before their midterm mathematics exam.
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Members of the Islamic faith at the U.C.L.A. encampment pause for evening prayers.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters, including some students from Jewish Voice for Peace at U.C.L.A., begin Friday evening Sabbath services at sundown inside the encampment.
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Protesters march through campus at Emory University in Atlanta on Friday.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters write phone numbers for legal representation on their arms in case they are arrested while demonstrating at Northeastern University in Boston.
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[crowd chanting] Disclose, divest. We will not stop, we will not rest.
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Protesters at Arizona State University gathered on campus Friday in Tempe, Ariz.
Thursday, April 25
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied at a newly formed “solidarity” encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.
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Students and community members prayed in front of a tent encampment on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
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A counterprotester in support of Israel spoke to the media about his thoughts outside the encampment at University of California, Los Angeles.
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Officers at the City College of New York were pushed back by a crowd after trying to remove a person from the area during a protest.
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Pro-Palestinian and anti-police graffiti was removed from where the encampment on Emerson College’s campus was before it was dismantled by the police in Boston.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators linked arms as police officers surrounded an encampment at Northeastern University in Boston on Thursday.
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Students continued their protest at Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus.
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Students at the University of Texas at Austin gathered on campus after a pro-Palestine demonstration. Dozens of students, faculty members and others were arrested on Wednesday after clashes with state law enforcement officials.
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At Northwestern University, protesters formed a line to prevent law enforcement officials from entering their encampment on Deering Meadow.
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Protesters at the City College of New York in New York City.
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An encampment at George Washington University in Washington.
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“Let them go!” “Let them go!” Crowd: “Let them go. Let them go. Let them go. Let them go. Let them go.”
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Law enforcement officials detained several protesters at Emory University a few hours after an encampment was set up on the university grounds.
Wednesday, April 24
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Protesters at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles surrounded a campus police car on Wednesday, demanding that a detained protester be released.
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A police officer bends down besides a tent on a lawn. There are buildings and trees in the background.
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Campus police checked for student IDs at a pro-Palestinian encampment at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
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People gathered in tents on the steps and grass in front of Sproul Hall at Berkeley.
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University of California, Berkeley, students set up tents on the Savio steps at Sproul Plaza.
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Protesters and police officers gathered during a pro-Palestinian protest at Alumni Park at the University of Southern California.
Tuesday, April 23
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A line of police officers watch a group of protestors next to a subway entrance waving flags.
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Officers from the New York Police Department monitoring a protest on Broadway outside Columbia University shortly after its president, Nemat Shafik, sent an email about negotiations between demonstrators and university officials.
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Two people lift a green tent and walk on a blue tarp in front of Columbia’s Butler Library.
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Several tents were moved from the Gaza-solidarity encampment at Columbia late Tuesday evening.
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Three people walk on a Manhattan sidewalk past a large wood wall shielding a plaza on a sunny day.
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Wooden boards were put up on the campus of New York University after arrests took place there Monday night.
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Two pairs of hands hold onto a piece of matzo over a green table.
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Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sharing matzo during a Seder hosted by a campus group, MIT Jews for Ceasefire.
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A crowd is gathered at Washington Square Park, with many people holding up signs. Trees and buildings are in the background.
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Protesters at Washington Square Park in New York City demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
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People sit on concrete steps facing toward a brick plaza where tents have been set up.
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Students set up tents at Sproul Plaza on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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A person blows soap bubbles on a sidewalk while two others, one holding a guitar, sit on a bench.
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Students at an encampment at Emerson College in Boston protesting the war in Gaza.
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A crowd stands on a grass lawn, many cupping their hands to their mouths as they shout. Some hold signs and a Palestinian flag.
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Students and community members protested outside Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Monday, April 22
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A group of people are bathed in red light from a flare being held up by one person. Another person waves a Palestinian flag.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators near the N.Y.U. campus after arrests by the police.
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Police officers taking protesters into custody at N.Y.U.
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People raise their fists or hold up cellphones as a bus with Police Department markings passes with people looking out the windows.
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People arrested at a pro-Palestinian demonstration at N.Y.U. on Monday were taken away on an N.Y.P.D. bus.
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A group of people, some holding signs, link arms on a sidewalk with tents and a campus building in the background.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators awaiting the arrival of the police on the N.Y.U. campus on Monday.
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Protesters siting among tents at night.
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An encampment of demonstrators protesting the war in Gaza on Kresge Lawn at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Mass.
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Several tents, some of which have homemade signs, at night. “Gazan kids were not born to die” and “Liberated zone” are among the signs’ messages.
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The M.I.T. protest encampment remained up on Monday night.
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Students stand inside a window in a building in the background. A Palestinian flag waves in the foreground.
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Students inside the Stern School of Business building at N.Y.U. watched the demonstrations from above.
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People kneel on prayer rugs and bow their heads to the ground on a plaza as others standing in the background looking on. A building with an N.Y.U. banner on it facade is behind them.
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Some pro-Palestinian demonstrators engaged in prayers at N.Y.U. as others looked on.
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The tent encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the plaza outside the business school’s entrance.
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People walk on a plaza outside a building, some clapping their hands.
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Protesters marched outside University Center, one of the main buildings at the New School’s Greenwich Village campus.
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A group of protesters hold signs that read “Kidnapped by Terrorists” outside the gates of the Columbia campus.
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A group of demonstrators gathered at a pro-Israel rally outside the main gates of Columbia.
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An overhead view of tents lining a campus lawn with people gathered among them and campus buildings beyond.
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The encampment at Columbia was put back up by protesters after being removed the previous week.
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People wearing academic caps and gowns hold signs with slogans such as “End student suspensions now,” “Restore faculty governance” and “hands off our students.”
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In a show of support for students who had been arrested and suspended, faculty members at Columbia took part in a walkout on Monday.
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Hundreds of people stood to listen to faculty members speaking as part of the walkout.
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People sit or kneel on the ground, painting slogans and the colors of the Palestinian flag on plastic buckets.
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Student demonstrators gathered at the Diag, a central location on the University of Michigan campus.
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A woman holds out her hand as another applies a pattern in henna.
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At the University of Michigan, a student protester applied a henna tattoo depicting a pattern that symbolizes Palestine onto the wrist of another demonstrator.
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People bow in prayer on a blue tarp spread on a grassy lawn. A sign leaning against a tent in the foreground reads, “MIT out of Palestine.” A Palestinian flag, other tents and a building with an arcing facade are in the background.
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Demonstrators prayed together at the encampment organized by protesters at M.I.T., in Cambridge, Mass.
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A man raises an Israeli flag in front of his body during a protest. His silhouette can be seen as sunlight shines through the flag.
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Supporters of Israel at Columbia on Monday morning.
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Crowd: “We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose, divest. We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose, divest.” Crowd: “Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine.”
Crowd: “We will not stop,
we will not rest.
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Pro-Palestinian students at Yale University gathered on campus chanting, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”
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A group of students sit on the streets and sidewalk outside an administration building at Yale. Several hold signs in support of Palestine.
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Students on the Yale campus took part in protests, even after arrests had been made earlier on Monday.
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“Free, free Palestine.” “Back up — everybody’s got to back up.”
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Outside Columbia’s gates, New York City police officers detained a pro-Palestinian demonstrator.
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Representative Mike Lawler, in a blue suit, speaks into microphones on a cordoned street, surrounded by people, including some holding Israeli flags.
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Representative Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, calling for Columbia’s president to “resign in disgrace.”
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Stickers are applied to a bronze wall decoration in the shape of the face of a lion with a ring held in its mouth.
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Pro-Palestinian stickers near the entrance of Butler Library at Columbia.
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[crowd clapping and cheering] How about you have the courage to open the gate? And let’s see what happens.
[crowd clapping and cheering]
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Protesters gathered around Columbia’s College Walk, the main pedestrian thoroughfare on the campus, as a speaker addressed them from the Sundial, a campus landmark.
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A man, wearing a face mask showing the Israeli flag, holds a hybrid U.S.-Israeli flag.
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A pro-Israel demonstrator outside Columbia University’s campus gates.
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A woman holding a bullhorn speaks on the steps of a plaza surrounded by other protesters.
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Protesters at N.Y.U. demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
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A group of tents are set up on the lawn in front of a domed building at M.I.T.
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Students erected encampments at several Boston-area universities, including M.I.T., to show solidarity with Palestinians and with protesters at Columbia.
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A group of men and women wearing traditional Palestinian scarves bang on orange Home Depot buckets with drumsticks during a protest.
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Students at M.I.T. formed an improvised drum circle during the protests.
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An aerial view of a large crowd gathered around a protester, who is standing on the Sundial and speaking into a bullhorn.
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Protesters gathered around Columbia’s College Walk as a speaker addressed them from the Sundial.
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Officers, some with batches of plastic restraints attached to their uniforms, lined up at a news conference held by the N.Y.P.D. outside the Columbia campus on Monday.
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Six people, several wearing head scarves, most of them with patterns, are seen from behind with arms interlocking.
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A group of pro-Palestinian students guarding their protest site on Columbia’s central campus lawn.
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The “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” dominates Columbia’s South Fields, facing Low Library, the space where commencement exercises are scheduled next month.
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The “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” dominates Columbia’s South Fields, facing Low Library, the space where commencement exercises are scheduled next month.
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Shai Davidai, in a black hooded sweatshirt and glasses, speaks to a gathered crowd in front of the gates of the Columbia campus.
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Shai Davidai, a Jewish Columbia professor, speaking outside the campus gates on Monday after saying his university identification card had been deactivated. A petition, which has garnered more than 10,000 signatures, has sought his termination, accusing him of harassment of pro-Palestinian students.
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A student stands in the center of an intersection outside a gothic building, speaking into a microphone as other students fill the intersection to listen. Protest messages have been written in chalk on the street.
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Students at Yale occupied an intersection near Woodbridge Hall.
Sunday, April 21
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A female student walks in front of a group of demonstrators gathered along a police barricade. In the foreground, a Palestinian flag is visible.
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Protesters rallied outside Columbia’s gates. Some protesters, unaffiliated with the university, made antisemitic comments toward Jewish students.
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A row of tents sits behind piles of supplies on a campus at night with lamps on posts glowing beyond.
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Tents that had previously been removed were again set up on the campus lawn by demonstrators.
Thursday, April 18
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Students on Columbia’s South Fields being escorted by police officers in blue uniforms. Around them are tents. In the background is Low Library, a colonnaded classical building. People are standing on the steps, on College Walk and the fields.
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More than 100 Pro-Palestinian activists were arrested last week when Columbia’s president said she had taken the “extraordinary step” to call in the police “because these are extraordinary circumstances.”
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Cornel West, wearing a suit and speaking into a bullhorn as he points up with his left hand, stands amid people seated on a campus lawn.
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Cornel West addressed student protesters.
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Tents fill a campus lawn. Hand-painted banners read “Liberated zone” and “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
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The student demonstrators were not deterred by rainstorms on Thursday. They remained in tents before the encampment was eventually removed.
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The administration called the N.Y.P.D. onto the campus. Over 100 students were arrested on Thursday.
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