Officials Blame ‘Outside Agitators’ for Ongoing Pro-Palestinian Campus Occupations by John Haughey – US Politics News

May normally means final exams and graduation ceremonies at universities and colleges, but it’s May 2 and many campuses across the United States are paralyzed in tense standoffs between pro-Palestinian protesters—including some who have erected fortified encampments on quads—and police in riot gear.
At least 300 people were arrested on college campuses from Manhattan to Madison, Wisconsin, from Dallas to Denver, on May 1, mostly while resisting, usually passively, law enforcement efforts to clear away ad hoc occupations of public property.
Pro-Palestinian groups demanding an end to the war in Gaza and divestment from Israel have embroiled at least 50 universities and colleges across more than 30 states in the largest groundswell of campus unrest since the 1980s anti-apartheid protests and the ’60s and ’70s Vietnam War protests….