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As the death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza rises, encampments led by pro-Palestinian students on American college campuses are spreading. Despite disciplinary measures and police involvement, the demonstrations show no signs of stopping. Encampments have started on at least a dozen campuses, as student protesters demand for their universities to divest from companies that benefit from the Israeli occupation._ Apr 23, 2024 8:29 PM UTC  Students occupy the grounds of Columbia University in support of Palestinian rights, on April 18, 2024. Students occupy the grounds of Columbia University in support of Palestinian rights, on April 18, 2024.Nina Berman—Redux  by [Sanya Mansoor](https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/)  ## Sanya Mansoor Apr 23, 2024 8:29 PM UTC Pro-Palestinian encampments have started on [more than a dozen American college campuses](https://time.com/6969875/pro-palestinian-encampments-take-over-college-campuses-across-america/), including New York University (NYU), Yale University and Columbia University. Dozens of students have been arrested or suspended for participating in these protests. On Monday night, the NYPD arrested more than 100 protesters at NYU, including faculty—who formed a human chain around the encampment to protect students. Law enforcement charged students with trespassing after they set up the encampment outside the Stern School of Business. “It was extremely violent; (police) started to throw lawn furniture,” says an NYU graduate student, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation from the university. The student says encampments have “spread like wildfire” after Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, [invited cops onto campus](https://time.com/6969335/pro-palestinian-columbia-student-protests-continue-after-arrests/). “Definitely, Columbia was the precedent,” the student adds. The NYU encampment has since been cleared by law enforcement. Others are ongoing. Antiwar protesters have started encampments at UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, Washington University in Saint Louis, University of Michigan, The New School, MIT, Emerson College, Tufts University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Rochester, the University of Minnesota and the University of Maryland. Some Jewish students have said they feel unsafe on college campuses with encampments. A few have staged counter-protests, although they have been much smaller. Other Jewish students are part of the protest movement. Student organizers have denied antisemitism allegations. Protesters’ primary demand is that their universities divest from companies that benefit from the Israeli occupation. The cost of waiting is too high, they say. Here are photos from the encampments:  New York University students set up a “Liberated Zone” tent encampment in Gould Plaza at NYU Stern School of Business on April 22, 2024.Michael M. Santiago—Getty Images  Yale students and protesters sing and rally chants as they block the intersection of College Street and Grove Street, outside Woolsey Hall, in New Haven, Conn., on April 22, 2024.Aaron Flaum—Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service/Getty Images  A coalition of University of Michigan students rally at an encampment to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 22, 2024.Rebecca Cook—Reuters  Pro-Palestinian protesters gather in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  People pray as New York University students set up a tent encampment in Gould Plaza at NYU Stern School of Business on April 22, 2024.Michael M. Santiago—Getty Images  Police intervene and arrest more than 100 students at New York University who continue their demonstration on campus in solidarity with the students at Columbia University and to oppose Israel’s attacks on Gaza, on April 22, 2024.Fatih Aktas—Anadolu/Getty Images  NYPD officers face protesters after detaining demonstrators and clearing an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian students and protesters on the campus of New York University, on April 22, 2024.Alex Kent—AFP/Getty Images  Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at a street intersection at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on April 22, 2024.Adrian Martinez Chavez—The New York Times/Redux  Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a tent encampment in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests continue outside the gates of Columbia University, and inside the campus, in New York City, on April 22, 2024.Mark Peterson—Redux  Protestors occupy an encampment in support of Palestine on the grounds of Columbia University on April 22, 2024.David Dee Delgado—Getty Images  Students erect a line in front of pro-Israel students to protect a large pro-Palestine picket at Columbia University, on April 18, 2024.Nina Berman—Redux ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6970137/pro-palestinian-encampments-universities/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6970137/pro-palestinian-encampments-universities/"},"headline":"Scenes From Pro-Palestinian Encampments Across U.S. Universities","datePublished":"2024-04-23T20:29:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:50:30.085Z","description":"Pro-Palestinian encampments have started on more than a dozen American college campuses.","url":"https://time.com/6970137/pro-palestinian-encampments-universities/","keywords":["protests","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sanya Mansoor","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/protests/","name":"protests"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6970137/pro-palestinian-encampments-universities/","name":"Scenes From Pro-Palestinian Encampments Across U.S. Universities"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Pro-Palestinian Encampments Take Over American College Campuses","description":"As the death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza rises, encampments led by pro-Palestinian students on American college campuses are spreading. 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