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Before Israel’s war on Gaza: Other times US campuses became battlegrounds

A student protester at Columbia University is forcibly removed from the campus, April 30, 1968, by New York City police [File: Dave Pickoff/AP]

From coast to coast, university students in the United States are protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, despite threats of suspension and arrest.

With Columbia University at the heart of the movement, institutes including Harvard, Yale, Tufts, Northwestern and several campuses in the University of Texas system have seen students set up encampments, demanding their institutions divest from companies they say are enabling the brutal war on Gaza.

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