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Live updates - Columbia sets deadline for Gaza protesters to leave campus - BBC News Live updates - Gaza protesters defy Columbia deadline to disband or face suspension - BBC News
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At dawn on Wednesday 17 April, a small group of students pitched their tents at Columbia University, demonstrating against Israeli military action in Gaza and calling on their university to stop doing business with companies they see as supporting the war. The first pro-Palestinian protests started at Columbia University in New York, a prestigious Ivy League college.
The next afternoon, the Columbia president Minouche Shafik made a decision that would ignite a wildfire of protest at colleges across the United States. Two weeks ago, more than 100 protesters were arrested after the university’s president asked police to clear the site.
The students at the protest camp were trespassing, had refused to leave and had created a "harassing and intimidating environment" for many of their peers, she said. Since then, protests sprung up across at least two dozen universities across the US, with more students arrested at college campuses in Los Angeles, California and in Atlanta, Georgia.
Soon after, officers from the largest police department in the US, wearing riot gear and wielding plastic handcuffs, arrested more than 100 students - the first time mass arrests had been made on Columbia's campus since Vietnam War protests more than five decades ago. Meanwhile in Austin, Texas, the governor ordered state troopers to arrest protesters.
By the middle of this week, demonstrations were taking place at dozens of campuses across the US. Some protests have started out as small gatherings before attracting larger crowds while others have been sparked by a particular event, such as at the University of Southern California where the valedictorian's speech was cancelled after they posted a link to a website that was critical of Israel.
You can read more on how the movement began and how it has unfolded so far here. Elsewhere, protests are happening at George Washington University in Washington, DC, at the University of Texas, New York University, Harvard University, Yale University as well as at Boston's Emerson University. Protests are also been reported at high schools in Seattle and New Jersey.
Read more about the protests at US universities here.
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