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Police equipped with riot gear and horses quickly cleared out a pro-Palestine protest that broke out at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, with at least three demonstrators arrested.

Students at the University of Texas at Austin were showing their support for Palestinians on Wednesday.

Students at the University of Texas at Austin were showing their support for Palestinians on Wednesday.

Students at the University of Texas at Austin were showing their support for Palestinians on Wednesday.

Many of the demonstrations were meant to urge schools to divest from military contractors supplying Israel with weapons.

Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesSeveral pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested by law enforcement on Wednesday at the University of Texas at Austin, as they gathered to oppose Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza, with more arrests likely to follow.Local police, alongside state troopers in riot gear, were dispatched to the South Lawn at UT Austin, where hundreds of students gathered to call on the school to cut ties with weapons manufacturers that have continued to arm Israel....

Protesters donned keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, chanted and held up signs near Jester Hall to protest the Israel Block Party occurring on Speedway Tuesday.  The Israel Block Party is the largest pro-Israel event on a college campus in North America. The Palestine Solidarity Committee stages a protest for the event every year, said steering committee...