Mapping pro-Palestine campus protests around the world
Al Jazeera
From the US to Australia, students are calling for their universities to divest and sever ties with Israel.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations and sit-ins are spreading at universities across the United States and in several campuses around the world.
Columbia University in New York, one of the most prestigious universities in the US, has emerged as the centre for student activism since Israel’s war on Gaza began more than six months ago with protests both in support of the war and against it.
On April 19, more than 100 protesters were arrested on the campus as police cleared an encampment set up by students.
On April 22, Columbia administrators announced that classes would be held in hybrid mode until the end of the spring semester.
The pro-Palestine students and faculty members at Columbia are calling for their university to divest from corporations that profit from Israel’s war on Gaza which has now killed more than 34,400 people and injured at least 77,500.
