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Charly Triballeau/GettyAfter weeks of demonstrations, protests, and arrests, talks between student protesters and the administration at Columbia University have failed to produce a resolution, the university’s president Minouche Shafik said Monday.In a statement to the campus community, Shafik was firm that the university would not divest from Israel—the main goal of the student protest known as the “Gaza solidarity encampment”—and told the protesters to pack i...

US colleges have been using law enforcement – along with academic suspensions and, for at least one school, expulsion – to try to bring to heel student demonstrations.

Columbia's president capitulated to the right-wing witch hunt — and only made things worse. Maybe that's a lesson?

From New York to California, students protesting the Israel-Hamas war slept in tents at college campuses, as some universities moved to shut down encampments and arrested dozens of demonstrators.

An anti-war movement is spreading on college campuses across America and beyond. Protests have been met with police violence, mass arrests and an unbending political class — all of which have only fuelled the demonstrations further. A hot summer of protest looms, and the stage is set for a showdown at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, writes Richard Hall

“We are not actually negotiating on the state of the encampment as of now,” Columbia University Apartheid Divest negotiator Mahmoud Khalil told The Post.

Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops to intervene in campus demonstrations. Hundreds of student and faculty arrests, with nonviolent dissenters thrown to the ground, tear-gassed and tased. We’ve been here before. In my book “Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America,” I detail how, throughout the […] The post College administrators ...

Crackdowns on campus protesters violate Texas' own state law.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson decried antisemitism and raised the possibility of calling in the National Guard to disperse student protesters during a trip to Columbia University in New York City on Wednesday. Students on that campus, as well as others throughout the country in recent days, have hosted large anti-war rallies calling on the […] The post U.S. House speaker confronts anti-war protesters at Columbia University appeared first on Ohio Capital Journal.

UT-Austin President defended the response but faculty criticized the presence of armed state troopers. At least 57 people were arrested.