University Gaza protests rage on with Columbia arrests and violence at UCLA

Pro-Israel counter-protesters try to remove barricades at a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [David Swanson/Reuters]

Demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza have continued to rage at universities across the United States, in a night capped by mass arrests in New York and an attack by counter-protesters in California.

In New York, the NYPD said it had arrested 282 people at Columbia University and the City College of New York into Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. That came as police cleared students who had occupied Columbia University Hamilton Hall since April 30.