College protests

University of California, Los Angeles, cancels classes Wednesday after overnight clashes between protesters on campus. After a couple of hours of scuffles between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators at UCLA late Tuesday, police wearing helmets and face shields slowly separated the groups and quelled the violence. MORE

NPR - Brown University leaders have agreed to hold a vote on divesting from companies that support Israel, and pro-Palestinian student demonstrators agreed to clear their encampment.

Guardian - Violent clashes broke out on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles early on Wednesday morning when counter-demonstrators attacked a pro-Palestinian protest encampment, hours after New York City police cleared pro-Palestinian protesters out of an academic building that had been taken over at Columbia University. Aerial footage showed people wielding sticks or poles to attack wooden boards being held up as a makeshift barricade to protect pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA, some holding placards or umbrellas. At least one firework was thrown into the camp.

NY mayor says nearly 300 arrested in crackdowns on protests at Columbia University and City College

Axios - About 1,100 people have been arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on at least 30 college campuses.

• Only a handful of students had been expelled before Columbia's announcement today, but schools have been sending students through internal disciplinary processes.
• The University of Florida has threatened to ban students from campus for three years.

Jonathan Ben-Menachem, Zeteo -  As a Jewish student at Columbia, it depresses me that I have to correct the record and explain what the real risk to our safety looks like. I still can't quite believe how the events on campus over the past few days have been so cynically and hysterically misrepresented by the media and by our elected representatives...  Here’s what you’re not being told: The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates. Frankly, I regret the fact that writing to confirm the safety of Jewish Ivy League students feels justified in the first place. I have not seen many pundits hand-wringing over the safety of my Palestinian colleagues mourning the deaths of family members, or the destruction of Gaza’s cherished universities.

1440 - Portland State University closed its campus after student protesters broke into a school library, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled its classes. Arrests across universities continued; over 1,000 people have been arrested so far. See all updates here.

NPR -  New York police officers cleared pro-Palestinian encampments at two campuses late last night. At Columbia University, officers used an armored vehicle to push a bridge through the window of a building students had barricaded themselves in. Less than a mile away, the encampment at The City College of New York was also disbanded, and students were hauled away with their hands zip-tied.

Time - Police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed a Columbia University building being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters, streaming in through a window late Tuesday and arresting dozens of people. The protesters had seized the administration building, known as Hamilton Hall, more than 20 hours earlier in a major escalation as demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war spread on college campuses nationwide.