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Police warn unis to break up protests as staffer threatens to burn camp
Victoria Police told universities there is a strong likelihood of violence if they don’t break up pro-Palestine student encampments on their campuses, warning that agitators who are not students are inflaming tensions.
- by Sherryn Groch and Chris Vedelago
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
When uni students endorse terror, it’s time for political intervention
The university protests in Australia arising from the Israel-Gaza conflict have moved beyond a debate about free speech.
- by David Crowe
Warning as universities refuse police help with pro-Palestine camps
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said police were having daily meetings with security staff, worried by a growing risk of violence.
- by Robyn Grace
Locks, chains, diversions: How Columbia students seized Hamilton Hall
Armed with a microwave, a kettle and sleeping bags, the protesters who occupied a building at the prestigious university seemed to be ready to stay a while.
- by Sharon Otterman and Chelsia Rose Marcius
Biden condemns violence as police dismantle pro-Palestinian UCLA protest camp
The pre-dawn police crackdown at UCLA marked the latest flashpoint for mounting tensions on US college campuses over Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.
- by Lisa Richwine and Omar Younis
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Cops to remain on Ivy League campus until after graduations
The sight of law enforcement officers in and around a prestigious college campus is somewhat jarring, even with its history of activism.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Across a university moat, pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups face off
Pro-Israel supporters harassed a student encampment at Monash overnight while a Jewish rally confronted the University of Melbourne’s pro-Palestine camp on Thursday.
- by Sherryn Groch
Pro-Israel supporters attack pro-Palestinian encampment at University of California
Eyewitness videos showed people wielding sticks or poles to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were called to the campus.
- by Nichola Groom and Maria Tsvetkova
‘Part of who we are’: Why Sydney Uni vice chancellor allows protest camp to stay
Vice chancellor Mark Scott says a few pro-Palestinian student activists were under investigation for inappropriate behaviour but their protest campsite will remain on campus.
- by Daniella White
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Supporters of Palestine, Israel in violent clashes at UCLA as university protests spread
Unrest at UCLA comes a day after police in riot gear stormed New York’s Columbia University, which has become the centre of America’s student uprising over the war in Gaza.
- by Farrah Tomazin