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Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Boston, Austin and Los Angeles on Wednesday into Thursday. Students continue setting up new encampments, including at Cornell and George Washington University.

The University of Southern California canceled its main commencement ceremony after dozens of campus arrests. Meanwhile, students at several schools around the country set up solidarity encampments.

While protests in Massachusetts have been peaceful, police in New York City have arrested scores of students amid protests over the war in Gaza.

These protests are part of a broader wave of student activism in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict, which erupted on October 7, 2023. 

At Emerson on Wednesday morning, students had formed a human barricade, two to three rows deep, blocking both ends of the alley.

Emerson College says the students encamping in Boylston Place Alley in protest of the War in Gaza are in violation of Boston city rules.

On the first night of Passover, several local college students are demanding their school call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas following the protests at Columbia University last week.

Columbia and Yale universities are cracking down on pro-Palestinian encampments, arresting protesters within recent days amid heightened security concerns. Here’s why tent cities are popping up at elite colleges.

Pro-Palestine students at Emerson, MIT, and Tufts set up tent encampments after dozens of Columbia students were arrested last week.

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