Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale, Columbia cancels in-person classes

NEW YORK — Police arrested dozens of people at a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Yale University on Monday , hours after Columbia University cancelled in-person classes in response to protesters setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week.

Protests at Yale, Columbia and other university campuses across the nation began in response to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following the deadly cross-border raid by Hamas militants on Oct 7 and Israel's fierce response in the Gaza enclave controlled by Hamas. The school said the encampment violated rules. Police arrested more than 100 students from Columbia on Thursday on charges of trespassing. Columbia and the affiliated Barnard College have suspended dozens of students involved in the protests.

The New York Police Department has had scores of officers on the busy Manhattan streets around Columbia's campus, where angry confrontations have unfolded between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups. Police have received reports of Israeli students having flags snatched from their hands, but no reports"of any physical harm against any student", Tarik Shappard, the chief police spokesperson, said at a press conference on Monday outside the campus.

"Even in recent days, we've seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews," Mr Biden said."This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous — and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country." "We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry and stand vigilant against non-students attempting to disrupt the solidarity being forged among students — Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, Black and pro-Palestinian classmates and colleagues," they said in a statement.

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