Violence breaks out at some pro-Palestinian campus protests

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• Donald Trump Reveals Plans for If He Loses Election
• Police arrest 90 at Dartmouth protest encampment after repeated warnings
• Police scuffle with protesters at UCLA as they try to reach encampment area
• Campus protests: UCLA students in standoff with police as demonstrations spread across US
• Donald Trump Using Pseudonym in Settlement Agreement Raises Questions
• Officers confront protesters as they dismantle encampment
• Pro-Palestinian Jewish Protesters Clash With Police Outside White House

After the demonstrations on Capitol Hill fizzled, another popped up in the evening hours outside the Israeli Embassy in Northwest. Barriers surrounded the embassy and a line of police stood between it and the crowd pocked with the red, black, white and green of the Palestinian flag. JVP claimed on social media that at least 10,000 people were outside the Capitol while 500 made their way inside the rotunda, all there to "challenge the Israeli government's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians." Jewish Voice for Peace member Malkah Bird says protestors at the Capitol are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Israel rejected such a pause, saying any sort of cease-fire is contingent on the release of hostages.

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The school said in a statement that the "overwhelming majority of the protestors are unaffiliated with our community. ... Police have reported that at least 14 protestors have been arrested, including two Tulane students." Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the war in Gaza have spread across the country in a student movement unlike any other in the 21st century, reaching from New York to Texas and California. The ensuing crackdown by police on some college campuses has stirred echoes of the much larger student protest movement during the Vietnam War era. Gene Block, UCLA’s chancellor, has finally addressed the violence that rocked the campus last night, describing the counter-protesters as “instigators” who attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment. “However one feels about the encampment, this attack on our students, faculty and community members was utterly unacceptable,” he said.

Police arrest 90 at Dartmouth protest encampment after repeated warnings

Ralliers cried "Free, free Palestine." They cheered when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window. Pro-Palestinian protesters were also gathered outside the event space, a relatively common occurrence for Biden in recent months. “The campus community is really fractured – and this is really only going to increase it now,” he said.

Police scuffle with protesters at UCLA as they try to reach encampment area

During a visit to Columbia University on Tuesday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Biden to send in the National Guard to break up the protests, which continued to rage around him on campus. The social media post described the protest outside Goldie as a three-minute stop that was part of a larger march, adding that members of the coalition of individuals and organizations behind it would continue to boycott Mr. Solomonov’s establishments. The White House issued a statement on Monday that called the protest targeting the establishment “unjustifiable,” adding to reaction from Pennsylvania officials. Pennsylvania state leaders including Gov. Josh Shapiro also criticized the protest held outside a falafel shop, calling it antisemitic. Police have formed a line to prevent any more protesters from entering the encampment area in Royce Quad — but aerial footage also appeared to show officers pulling back from the encampment area and walking away after the scuffles broke out. Several hundred officers arrived on campus in a series of buses through the early morning, hours after the encampment had been declared unlawful at 6 p.m.

One of the organizations behind the protest, IfNotNow, reported on X, formerly Twitter, that Secret Service Police began arresting demonstrators after the group reportedly blocked off all entrances to the White House. The progressive organization also shared videos and photos of protesters singing and holding signs that read, "Stop Genocide in Gaza" and "My grief is not your weapon." In a call for an end to "genocide" in Gaza, a handful of Jewish protesters who joined a pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, D.C., on Monday were arrested, accused of blocking entrances to the White House. The protesters in Washington were mostly young, including families who brought their children. Many protesters wore the black and white keffiyeh that is a symbol of Palestinian solidarity.

Campus protests: UCLA students in standoff with police as demonstrations spread across US

The nationwide campus protests began at Columbia in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza after Hamas launched a deadly attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7. Militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages. Vowing to stamp out Hamas, Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the local health ministry.

During an outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, Ulfelder said that a wave of pro-Palestinian protests in the U.S. began to expand to include the support of Indigenous activists, labor groups and organizations such as Black Lives Matter. The detained protesters were lined up outside the building and shuttled to a temporary holding area in the Capitol complex. Capitol Police say demonstrators inside the Cannon Rotunda will be charged with illegally protesting inside a House Office Building. U.S. Capitol Police put out an alert about the demonstrations, saying the activity was not allowed inside Congressional buildings.

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The Daily Bruin said on Twitter/X that four of its reporters were followed and assaulted during the night. In neighboring Austria, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tweeted that his country stood in solidarity with Israel. Neither provided specific evidence to back up that contention, which was disputed by protest organizers and participants. Just hours after both universities were cleared, a new encampment was launched at Fordham University in the Bronx.

He noted that destroying property, vandalism, breaking windows, shutting down campuses and forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation are not peaceful protests. Some Democratic state and local leaders have criticized the pro-Palestinian protests. In San Francisco, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins referred to one as a “pro-Hamas rally” in a post on X, after vandals wrote “Death 2 Israel” in graffiti on a downtown building.

The university now known as Cal Poly Humboldt closed its doors for the rest of the semester amid escalating pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Protests inside the event itself are much less common and perhaps unprecedented, given the tight security, and people involved in organizing the protests said they knew of no plans to try to infiltrate the exclusive invite-only dinner. Criticism about the dinner and its surrounding festivities, where reporters and media executives mingle with people they cover, is nothing new.

According to a PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted Nov. 6 to Nov. 9, most Americans, about six in 10, said they sympathize with Israel, compared to three in 10 who are sympathetic toward Palestinians. At the same time, 38 percent of U.S. adults said Israel’s military response to Hamas has been “too much” — a 12 percentage point jump since October. Students, faculty, and staff at Columbia were directed to “immediately vacate” Pulitzer Hall, the building housing the university’s journalism school, early Monday citing “safety concerns related to the situation on campus,” a message sent to students early Monday morning read. "President Biden respects the right to free expression, but protests must be peaceful and lawful. Forcibly taking over buildings is not peaceful — it is wrong. And hate speech and hate symbols have no place in America," Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said. Activists are expecting several hundred people at a rally in Kalorama Park, just two blocks from the Washington Hilton, which is hosting the event.

It’s all the people that are running the country for millions of people that think humanely and morally,” Bonarigu said. “In the past, there wasn’t really an influx or like a huge crowd gathering for Palestinian protest and I think that we see this turning point in our generation,” Burgas said. Lauren Burgess and Jenna Bonarigo caravaned from Youngstown, Ohio, to participate in the Free Palestine march in Washington, D.C., in early November.

"Since the Israel-Gaza war began, journalists have been paying the highest price — their lives — to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth," CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement. Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with "press" insignia. The White House is expected to ask Congress to approve a massive aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific national, and border security that could reportedly cost around $100 billion. “There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill,” Greene posted on X alongside a video of her grimly peering out a Capitol Office complex balcony at the protesters. “We need to watch people [who] think it’s okay to bomb a hospital where children [were],” she told demonstrators before bursting out in tears. Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the US Capitol complex Wednesday, demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

They were linking arms and singing as of 5 a.m (8 a.m. ET) and some tents were still standing, although most have been taken down and thrown onto a growing pile of debris. "Just this morning what was given to me by my team was a preliminary review of the numbers, this is just the beginning process of the analyzing, and it appears as though over 40% of those who participated in Columbia and CUNY were not from the school," Adams said. Those arrested are expected to be booked at the Los Angeles county sheriff’s downtown Los Angeles jail and other facilities around the county, according to a senior law enforcement source familiar with the matter. “While we do not condone tactics that are outside of our policies, we appreciate student leaders’ willingness to engage in dialogue. I value the challenging and healthy conversations we’ve had,” interim President Jeff Ettinger said in a statement. At least two police officers in regular uniform were seen surveying the area from a distance.

One day after clashes between protesters and police culminated in arrests, 25 tents were re-established at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Washington Jewish organizations advised constituents before the march not to counterprotest. According to the PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, while 79 percent of Democrats approve of the job Biden is doing as president in general, that number drops to 60 percent when asked about his role in the war between Israel and Hamas. Recent polls have raised the possibility that Biden’s stance on Israel could cost him voters important to his 2020 victory, in particular Arab American voters in Michigan and young people.