Attack on UCLA Encampment Stirs Fears of Clashes Elsewhere
At a rally at the University of California, Los Angeles, last Sunday, Elan Carr, the leader of an Israeli diaspora group, told more than 1,000 demonstrators that Jewish mobilization at universities was beginning. “We will take back our streets. We will take back our campuses from Columbia University to U.C.L.A. and everywhere in between,” Mr. More...
Dartmouth Professor’s Arrest During Protests Stirs Anger and Debate
The video is jarring: A gray-haired woman tumbles, gets up to reach for her phone, held by police officers, and is yanked and taken to the ground. “Are you kidding me?” a bystander asks. “What are they More...
Campus Protests Over Gaza Open a New Line of Attack for GOP in 2024 Election
Protests and arrests on college campuses exploded into the forefront of the presidential race this week, opening up a new line of attack for Republicans and forcing President Biden to directly address an issue More...
N.Y.P.D. Says Officer Accidentally Fired Gun Inside Columbia Building
An officer whose gun went off inside a Columbia University building this week fired it accidentally as the police were removing pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus, the New York Police Department said More...
Opinion | How Protesters Can Actually Help Palestinians
Student protesters: I admire your empathy for Gazans, your concern for the world, your moral ambition to make a difference. But I worry about how peaceful protests have tipped into occupations of buildings, More...
Opinion | Campus Protests Aren’t Going Away. Colleges Need to Draw Lines.
Sarah Wildman: I’m Sarah Wildman, a staff editor and writer for Times Opinion. Newsreel: (Protest chants) Campus protests and rallies have been percolating since Oct. 8, but in the past week, something shifted. Newsreel: More...
UCLA Cancels Classes After Violent Clashes Between Protesters and Police
It was an example of a tolerant campus, where a burgeoning pro-Palestinian encampment might be left alone even as student protesters were arrested across the nation. Free speech would be supported as long as More...
In a Portland Library, Activists Fortify for a Standoff
At Portland State University’s crescent-shaped library, students can normally peer through floor-to-ceiling windows at the leafy green spaces below. But the library, under occupation since Monday by pro-Palestinian More...
Columbia Officials Said They Had ‘No Choice’ But to Call the Police to Clear Protest
Exactly 56 years to the day after the 1968 student occupation at Columbia University was violently cleared by the New York Police Department, hundreds of police officers moved into the Manhattan campus on Tuesday More...
Will Protesters Occupying Columbia’s Hamilton Hall Face Charges?
Student protesters at Columbia University who took over a building on campus Tuesday morning could face a variety of felony or misdemeanor charges, but probably will not be found guilty of criminal charges, More...
