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Police clad in riot gear swarmed Yale University’s Connecticut campus early Monday and arrested dozens of students who refused to clear out from an anti-Israel protest encampment .

At least 47 protesters were cuffed and hauled away from the Ivy League’s New Haven campus on shuttle buses, a university spokesperson confirmed to The Post. 

They were slapped with trespassing summons — and will be referred for Yale disciplinary action, which may include suspensions, the rep added.

The mass arrests came after footage posted online showed cops arriving at the Ivy League school and blocking off entrances to a plaza, where roughly 200 protesters had been gathered.

Cops repeatedly warned protesters they risked being arrested if they didn’t clear out, the Yale spokesperson said.

As police descended on the campus, a group of defiant students had locked arms around a flagpole and were singing “We shall not be moved” — as officers could be seen checking the dozens of tents erected in the plaza, according to a video posted on X.

While the arrests were underway, others could be heard taunting the Yale Police Depatment (YPD), “YPD or KKK, IDF they’re all the same” and chanting, “Arab blood is not cheap, for the martyrs we will speak,” according to the Yale Daily News.

Cops had cleared the plaza and encampment of student protesters by about 8 a.m.

“Today, members of Yale’s police department isolated the area and asked protestors to show identification; some left voluntarily. When others did not comply after multiple requests, the Yale Police Department issued summonses to 47 students,” the spokesperson said.

“The university made the decision to arrest those individuals who would not leave the Plaza with the safety and security of the entire Yale community in mind and to allow access to university facilities by all members of our community.” 

It comes after protests at Yale turned violent over the weekend when a Jewish student journalist reporting on an encampment, which was erected Friday, was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag Saturday night.

Sahar Tartak, editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, was covering the protest when she was suddenly surrounded by demonstrators.

“There’s hundreds of people taunting me and waving the middle finger at me, and then this person waves a Palestinian flag in my face and jabs it in my eye,” Tartak told The Post.

“When I tried to yell and go after him, the protesters got in a line and stopped me.”

Yale president Peter Salovey sent students an email late Sunday warning that the school “will pursue disciplinary actions according to its policies” amid the ongoing demonstrations.

“Many of the students participating in the protests, including those conducting counterprotests, have done so peacefully. However, I am aware of reports of egregious behavior, such as intimidation and harassment, pushing those in crowds, removal of the plaza flag, and other harmful acts,” he wrote.

“Yale does not tolerate actions, including remarks, that threaten, harass, or intimidate members of the university’s Jewish, Muslim, and other communities.

“The Yale Police Department is investigating each report, and we will take action when appropriate, including making referrals for student discipline.”

The arrival of cops comes after more than 100 protesters were cuffed and hauled away when the NYPD was called in to clear out a similar protest at Columbia University last week.

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Police arrest pro-Palestinian supporters at encampment on Yale University plaza

Police officers   Monday arrested protesters who had set up an encampment on Yale University’s campus   in support of the Palestinian cause,   one of a  growing number of American universities  where there have been demonstrations surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Protesters had been on their third night of camping out to urge Yale to divest from military weapons manufacturers, the Yale Daily News reported. 

Officers gathered at the protest site at Beinecke Plaza shortly before 7 a.m. Monday   and were   seen approaching the encampment and “flipping up the entrances to the tents,” the school paper wrote on X.

Then officers issued a warning for students and journalists to leave or they’d be arrested. Minutes later, the school paper wrote on X that police were arresting people.

In total, 47 students were issued summonses, Yale said in a statement Monday.  

They were taken to a Yale police facility, where they were processed, charged with first-degree criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, and released, the New Haven mayor’s office said.

The arrests

The university said protesters were asked to leave and remove their belongings after officials had “notified protesters numerous times” that if they violated university policies about occupying outdoor spaces, they could face law enforcement and disciplinary action. Some left voluntarily Monday morning.

Those arrested will also be referred for Yale disciplinary action, “which includes a range of sanctions, such as reprimand, probation, or suspension,” the university said.

By 8 a.m., no students were left on the plaza, and all protesters remaining on the plaza had been arrested. 

"The university made the decision to arrest those individuals who would not leave the plaza with the safety and security of the entire Yale community in mind and to allow access to university facilities by all members of our community," Yale said Monday.

A statement on the Instagram page for the Yale protest organizers under the handle “Occupy Beinecke” said Monday that police had given only one arrest warning and refused to allow protesters to collect medication and other necessities. 

“When asked onsite what protesters were doing wrong, police refused to give an answer,” the group said. Organizers also said the summons for criminal trespassing charges was “contrary to all prior communication from administration about potential consequences.”

After the arrests, a crowd of over 200 protesters blocked the intersection of Grove and College streets on campus as organizers “announced that people arrested are being charged with Class A misdemeanors,” the school paper wrote on X.

Forty police officers were reported to be at the scene, blocking students from entering the Schwarzman Center Rotunda.

New Haven police said they had no plans to make "any arrests of non-violent protesters" at that demonstration, which was still ongoing at of 10 a.m. ET.

Yale police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Protests unfolding at universities across the U.S.

Another Ivy League institution, Columbia University in New York City, held classes virtually Monday following a pro-Palestinian encampment and protest that also resulted in mass suspensions and arrests.

Three Boston-area universities, Tufts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emerson, also had protest encampments over the weekend, organizers said.

Meanwhile, Harvard restricted access to Harvard Yard — a grassy area enclosed by fences on campus — through Friday afternoon. The school paper, The Harvard Crimson , reported the decision was “in apparent anticipation of student protests.” A notice posted on Yard gates said that “structures, including tents and tables, are not permitted in the Yard without prior permission” and that “students violating these policies are subject to disciplinary action.” 

The University of Southern California in Los Angeles was criticized last week after it canceled the speech of a valedictorian whose social media account had a link to a document expressing support for Palestinians in Gaza. USC said it decided to cancel the speech based on concerns over  security and the possibility of disruption .

Protests call for Yale to divest from military weapons manufacturers

Yale has been under “months of sustained pressure” to disclose and divest from investments in military weapons manufacturers, Occupy Beinecke said.

However, on Wednesday, Yale said its Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility would not recommend divestment because it had concluded that “military weapons manufacturing for authorized sales did not meet the threshold of grave social injury” and because “this manufacturing supports socially necessary uses, such as law enforcement and national security.”

University President Peter Salovey sa id in a statement Sunday that they understood the disagreement with the ACIR decision.

“The ACIR—a committee of faculty, students, staff, and alumni—arrived at this conclusion after hearing from student presenters and engaging in careful deliberation. This is part of a formal process and relies on the university’s guide to ethical investing that has served Yale well for decades,” the statement said. “There are available pathways to continue this discussion with openness and civility, and I urge those with suggestions to follow them.”

The statement Sunday said the protests in Beinecke Plaza and other parts of campus “have grown significantly over the weekend, and some members of the broader community have joined our students.”

While the school “supports free speech and civil discourse,” the encampment protest violated some university guidelines and policies, which school leaders warned participants about. 

“Putting up structures, defying the directives of university officials, staying in campus spaces past allowed times, and other acts that violate university policies and guidelines create safety hazards and impede the work of our university,” Salovey wrote.

While many students participating in protests and counter protests “have done so peacefully,” the school was aware of reports of “egregious behavior, such as intimidation and harassment, pushing those in crowds, removal of the plaza flag, and other harmful acts,” the statement said.

Yale separately told NBC News on Sunday that university police were “investigating a report of an assault” during a protest on Beinecke Plaza, adding it was “providing support to a student who made the report.”

The officials stressed: “Yale does not tolerate actions, including remarks, that threaten, harass, or intimidate members of the university’s Jewish, Muslim, and other communities,” and school police are investigating such actions.

CORRECTION (April 22, 2024, 6:20 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated who signed Yale University’s statement Sunday. It was signed by university President Peter Salovey, who is also the Chris Argyris professor of psychology. It was not also signed by Argyris, the late professor for whom Salovey’s endowed position is named.

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Dear Members of the Yale Community,

Following my message to the community yesterday, I am writing to you with an update about the actions we took this morning to safeguard campus safety and sustain university operations. I was deeply saddened that the call for civil discourse and peaceful protest I issued was not heeded. More concerning, some of those who joined students at Hewitt Quadrangle (Beinecke Plaza) in recent days were not members of the Yale community, and protesters were trespassing on campus overnight.

For several days, faculty and staff provided student protesters resources for free expression, health, and well-being, and informed them of university policies and expectations. The protesters also received repeated notifications that their continued unauthorized use of a campus space was in violation of university policies and state laws and that those who remained would be subject to disciplinary and legal action.

Last night, we spent many hours in discussions with students, offering them opportunities to end the protest and to meet with trustees, including the chair of the Board of Trustees’ Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR). Students chose to end conversations with Yale College and graduate school deans and rejected this offer; they decided instead to remain on Beinecke Plaza with those who had joined them from outside the campus community.

At that point, we determined that the situation was no longer safe. Members of the Jewish, Muslim, Israeli, Arab, and Palestinian communities reported that the campus environment had become increasingly difficult. We then became aware of police reports identifying harmful acts and threatening language used against individuals at or near the protest sites. Some of the aggressors are believed to be members of the Yale community while others were outsiders. We will not tolerate such behavior nor any open violation of Yale policies that interrupts academic and campus operations. So, we acted consistently with the warnings we had given over several days and escorted the protesters from the plaza.

Early this morning, Yale Police Department (YPD) officers spoke with students on Beinecke Plaza and gave them several opportunities to leave and avoid arrest. YPD officers only arrested those who were prepared to be arrested. During that action, Yale Police arrested sixty people who refused a final request to leave voluntarily. Forty-seven were Yale students. The university statement we issued provides more information. This is a dynamic situation, and additional updates will be posted online .

I am grateful that we were able to take these actions peacefully and that none of the protesters resisted arrest. The Yale Police Department acted in a manner that ensured the safety of the members of our community. However, today, a crowd—again, including our students and people not affiliated with Yale—assembled and blocked New Haven city streets. This is a safety violation and a disruption to the operation of the City of New Haven.

We will continue to support individuals’ right to freedom of expression, and, as I said in my message to you on Sunday, April 21, we also remain focused on campus safety. We will pursue disciplinary action to address possible violations of our policies, particularly those policies prohibiting threats, intimidation, coercion, harassment, and physical harm as well as conduct that interferes with university operations. We will remind our campus community soon of our policies on freedom of expression and use of outdoor spaces . We will also provide clarifying policy concerning the building of structures on campus.

I remind you of the statement I made to our community yesterday and my December message, Against Hatred : we must reject discrimination and prejudice and act with compassion and civility, especially when the values we stand for are being severely tested. We have traveled far together over the years to create and sustain a thriving academic environment; let us work together in the coming days to continue that journey.

Peter Salovey President Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology

Update: After all processing was completed and reported, there were forty-four students and four other individuals arrested.

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Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale, NYU

Columbia University canceled in-person classes, police arrested dozens of protesters at Yale and New York universities, and pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up encampments at other colleges Monday as tensions flared again on campuses across the country over the Israel-Gaza war .

Students at many schools are escalating protests over the war, living in tents on campus, disrupting university events, and risking and provoking arrest, leading to a growing sense of chaos and crackdown at colleges in the waning days of the academic year. College leaders are facing intense scrutiny over whether they are doing enough to protect students, faculty and staff against alleged antisemitism and other bias since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and resulting war — even as they confront scathing criticism from those who say they’re denying students’ right to speak out and censoring political protests.

The latest protests — stretching across an array of private and public colleges and universities — come days after more than 100 demonstrators were arrested at Columbia, sparking acts of solidarity at other institutions including Boston University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Encampments and other protests also sprang up at campuses such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley.

At New York University late Monday, officers from the NYPD made arrests at Gould Plaza after school administrators requested their assistance, according to police spokesperson Shaimaa Alkhafajee, who said she did not know how many people had been arrested.

NYU faculty were also among those arrested, according to group NYU Faculty for Justice in Palestine.

Videos on social media showed dozens of officers in tense confrontations with protesters. Some officers tossed tents, and others grappled with demonstrators.

Videos also showed police loading people, whose hands were zip-tied behind their backs, onto correctional buses. Officers said over a megaphone that protesters were arrested for “disorderly conduct,” according to the Washington Square News , NYU’s independent student newspaper.

NYU spokesman John Beckman said that about 50 protesters were demonstrating “without authorization” Monday morning and the university blocked access to the plaza to prevent more people joining.

The barriers were breached early in the afternoon by additional protesters, “many of whom we believe were not affiliated with NYU,” who exhibited “disorderly, disruptive, and antagonizing behavior,” and refused to leave when told the protests would be disbanded, he said. The university then requested assistance from the NYPD, he said, adding there were “several antisemitic incidents reported."

In a letter shared by NYPD deputy commissioner Kaz Daughtry, the university asked the police department to “take enforcement action” up to and including arrests to clear the protesters, all of whom they considered “to be trespassers.”

Earlier in the day, Yale said 47 students were arrested at Beinecke Plaza and will be referred for disciplinary action, potentially including suspension. The school said it made repeated efforts over the weekend to talk to protesters, offered them meetings with trustees and warned of arrests before the Monday morning action. Police released the detained protesters.

“I was deeply saddened that the call for civil discourse and peaceful protest I issued was not heeded,” Yale President Peter Salovey said in a message to the campus community.

“We then became aware of police reports identifying harmful acts and threatening language used against individuals at or near the protest sites,” he said. “Some of the aggressors are believed to be members of the Yale community while others were outsiders. We will not tolerate such behavior nor any open violation of Yale policies that interrupts academic and campus operations.”

The students occupying Beinecke Plaza are demanding that the Yale Corporation disclose its investments in, and divest from, military weapons manufacturers. They say Yale holds thousands of shares in index funds “with exposure” to defense contractors and weapons manufacturers that are helping “facilitate the genocide in Palestine,” according to a statement the student activists put out Monday.

Yale is “sending bombs to level every university, every school in Gaza, and I’m not willing to stand silent while that happens,” said Tacey Hutten, a student protester who was arrested Monday. “And based on what I’ve seen the last couple of days, this campus isn’t either.”

Israel denies that it is carrying out genocide in Gaza. A case brought before the International Court of Justice by South Africa alleges that Israel is violating international law by committing and failing to prevent genocidal acts. The court has ordered Israel to do more to prevent the deaths of civilians.

Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility declined last week to take action on the university’s investments in military weapons makers. The committee “concluded that military weapons manufacturing for authorized sales did not meet the threshold of grave social injury, a prerequisite for divestment, because this manufacturing supports socially necessary uses, such as law enforcement and national security,” the advisory group wrote in a statement Wednesday.

Noor Kareem, a 21-year-old ethnicities, race and migration major who was arrested, had protested at Beinecke Plaza since April 15, and had spent every night there since setting up the encampment Friday. The number of protesters grew in recent days, reaching a peak of 700 to 1,000 on Sunday night, Noor said.

College Street at Prospect Street is currently blocked by protesters, please avoid the area and expect delays. pic.twitter.com/LugtT5GWr2 — New Haven Police Department (@NHPDnews) April 22, 2024

But students say the scene became tense early Monday.

Hutten, a 20-year-old sophomore, said she awoke at 6 a.m. Monday to a friend’s urgent message: Police had surrounded Beinecke Plaza.

Hutten had spent every night at Beinecke since Friday evening, huddling in beanbag chairs and blankets against the cold and snacking on pizza and chai donated by local businesses, many of them Arab- or Palestinian-owned. She had also joined in chants of “From the river to the sea” and “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest!”

She had been thrilled to see temporary art pop up throughout the plaza. There were “a lot of signs in different languages coming from different groups, different identities and backgrounds,” Hutten said. “Everyone has been offering a piece of himself to the movement. It’s been beautiful.”

But now, she said, law enforcement officers were telling Hutten, her friends and fellow protesters to clear out or they would be arrested.

Police officers gave one warning, which many students did not hear, Hutten said. Nobody moved. Soon, Hutten said, she felt officers grabbing her arm and back and pulling her up some stairs. She said she was not surprised, and that she had come to expect such tactics from Yale, which she accused of being unwilling to engage in earnest with students’ demands.

Police later released the demonstrators without a requirement to post bail, and almost everyone returned to a large intersection near campus, Hutten said. She said the arrests did not intimidate her and fellow protesters.

“Not only are we not deterred, we may even be more engaged now,” she said. “We’re resolute. I’ve been involved in this struggle for a couple of months now and plan to be for the rest of my life.”

Meanwhile, Columbia University continues to face criticism over its response to recent protests. Last week, the administration asked the New York Police Department to enter campus and break up the pro-Palestinian encampment, a day after school leaders were questioned on Capitol Hill by lawmakers who claimed the protests were antisemitic. Some Jewish students said protesters’ rhetoric had become more extreme , describing demonstrators ordering them away from their encampment and even flashing a Hamas logo at them.

Hillel, a Jewish campus organization, called on Columbia and New York City to step up efforts to protect Jewish students, while urging them not to quit the school. “We do not believe that Jewish students should leave @Columbia,” the group posted on X . “We do believe that the University and the City need to do more to ensure the safety of our students.”

Classes at Columbia were held virtually Monday, and the university encouraged faculty and staff to work remotely. Students, either for religious reasons or with an approved disability accommodation, have the option of remote learning going forward, according to the university.

In a message to campus, Columbia President Minouche Shafik said she is convening a group of deans, university administrators and faculty to bring “this crisis to a resolution.” She said the group will continue discussions with student protesters, hoping to return to “respectful engagement with each other.”

Shafik said people not affiliated with the university have exploited and amplified tensions on the campus. Students and faculty have said the encampment on university grounds, accessible only to Columbia students and staff, is far more calm than the demonstrations held outside school gates.

Jeanine D’Armiento, a professor of medicine in anesthesiology at Columbia and chair of the executive committee of the University Senate, said Sunday that “a lot of the outside protests are different than the inside protests. … I have found that the students that we’re working with within the encampment have been very straightforward and making clear what their goals are … as we expect nonviolent protesters to do.”

On Monday afternoon, four Democratic lawmakers, who are Jewish, visited Columbia’s encampment.

Rep. Kathy Manning of North Carolina said in a statement to The Post that she spoke with Jewish students who felt unsafe by “virulent antisemitic chants” that called for Israel’s destruction.

“My visit to Columbia’s campus further underscored the pressing need for Congress to take action to combat antisemitism,” Manning’s statement said. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) said at a news conference near the campus that some students had witnessed protesters burning Israeli flags.

Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) also spoke, saying Columbia “will pay the price” if administrators don’t protect Jewish students. “Jewish students are welcome here at Columbia,” Gottheimer said. “And while the leadership of Columbia may be failing you, we will not. We will do everything in our power to keep you safe and do everything in Washington we can to make sure that you feel welcome at this university or any university across the United States of America.”

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) also visited the campus.

Republican congressional lawmakers say Shafik is not doing enough to quell the unrest at Columbia. Rep. Elise Stefanik — who sits on the House panel Shafik testified before last week — led all 10 House Republicans from New York in a letter urging Shafik to resign for what they called her failure to “ensure students have a safe learning environment.”

Asked about the letter, a university spokesperson said, “President Shafik is focused on de-escalating the rancor on Columbia’s campus. She is working across campus with members of the faculty, administration, and Board of Trustees, and with state, city, and community leaders, and appreciates their support.”

Debbie Becher, an associate professor of sociology at Barnard College, said hundreds of faculty members on Monday afternoon protested Columbia’s use of police and what they considered harsh disciplinary measures to silence peaceful student protests.

Meanwhile, other campuses also are contending with increasingly aggressive campus activism. A group of student protesters at Pomona College in California was arrested earlier this month after storming the president’s office. At the University of California at Berkeley in February, protesters broke windows and a door while disrupting a talk given by an Israeli lawyer.

On Sunday, President Biden condemned antisemitism on college campuses. Biden’s statement, which was part of a lengthy Passover greeting he issued from the White House, did not name Columbia or Yale directly but cited “harassment and calls for violence against Jews” in recent days.

“This blatant Antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous — and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country,” the statement said.

Richard Morgan, Susan Svrluga and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff contributed to this report

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Statement regarding campus protests on beinecke plaza.

For the past week, protestors advocating for Yale’s divestment from military weapons manufacturers converged on Hewitt Quadrangle (Beinecke Plaza). Over the weekend, these protests grew to include several hundred people — Yale undergraduates, graduate and professional students, and people with no Yale affiliation. Early this morning, the university again asked protestors to leave and remove their belongings. Before taking this step, the university had notified protestors numerous times that if they continued to violate Yale’s policies and instructions regarding occupying outdoor spaces, they could face law enforcement and disciplinary action, including reprimand, probation, or suspension.

The university also spent several hours in discussion with student protestors yesterday, offering them the opportunity to meet with trustees, including the chair of the Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR), and to avoid arrest if they left the plaza by the end of the weekend. They declined this offer and continued to occupy the plaza. The university extended the deadline for a response to their offer to meet with the CCIR and trustees several times, with negotiations concluding unsuccessfully at 11:30 p.m.

Today, members of Yale’s police department isolated the area and asked protestors to show identification; some left voluntarily. When others did not comply after multiple requests, the Yale Police Department (YPD) issued summonses to 47 students, according to the most recent report from the chief of YPD. Students who were arrested also will be referred for Yale disciplinary action, which includes a range of sanctions, such as reprimand, probation, or suspension.

The university made the decision to arrest those individuals who would not leave the plaza with the safety and security of the entire Yale community in mind and to allow access to university facilities by all members of our community. Yale provides detailed guidance on  free expression ,  peaceable assembly , and requesting the use of  on-campus outdoor spaces . Since the protest started, the university and the Yale Police Department worked to reduce the likelihood of confrontations and arrests.

Yesterday, President Peter Salovey sent a message to the community , noting that the university would not tolerate behavior that interfered with university operations or threatened, harassed, or intimidated others.

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Middle east crisis — explained, photos: take a look at campus protests around the country.

Michael Minasi

Tyrone Turner

Beth LaBerge

Martin de Nascimento

Matt Pearson

Ryan Caron King

Kevin Beatty

Students take part in a pro-Palestinian walkout and protest on April 24, 2024, at the University of Texas at Austin. Michael Minasi/KUT hide caption

Students take part in a pro-Palestinian walkout and protest on April 24, 2024, at the University of Texas at Austin.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations have taken root at dozens of U.S. college campuses.

Some have stayed peaceful. Some turned chaotic and have included student arrests.

Photojournalists at NPR member stations have been documenting the protests around the country this week.

Take a look:

UC Berkeley Student Yahya Ahmed prays at the UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on Apr. 23, 2024. Martin do Nascimento/KQED hide caption

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif., on April 25, 2024, calling for the university to divest from Israel. The rally took place during Stanford's Admit Weekend, a time for incoming students to tour the university. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption

UC Berkeley students gather at the UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on Apr. 23, 2024. Martin do Nascimento/KQED hide caption

A pro-Israel counter-protester waves an Israel flag during a pro-Palestinian march through the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif., on April 25, 2024, calling for the university to divest from Israel. The rally took place during Stanford's Admit Weekend, a time for incoming students to tour the university. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption

Law enforcement form a barrier while arresting students taking part in a pro-Palestinian walkout and protest on April 24, 2024, at the University of Texas at Austin. Michael Minasi/KUT hide caption

A protestor holds a sign reading 'Jews For A Free Palestine' during a pro-Palestinian walkout and protest on April 25, 2024, at the University of Texas at Austin. Michael Minasi/KUT hide caption

Law enforcement arrest students taking part in a pro-Palestinian walkout and protest on April 24, 2024, at the University of Texas at Austin. Michael Minasi/KUT hide caption

Arrests are made as Atlanta Police Department and Georgia State Partrol order Pro-Palestinian and "Cop City" protesters to disperse from the quad on Emory University campus on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Matthew Pearson/WABE hide caption

An Atlanta Police officer fires pepper pellets onto the ground as Atlanta Police Department and Georgia State Patrol order Pro-Palestinian and "Cop City" protesters to disperse from the quad on Emory University campus on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Matthew Pearson/WABE hide caption

An encampment set up by pro-Palestinian and 'Cop City' protesters on Emory University's campus on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Matthew Pearson/WABE hide caption

A protester talks on the phone after being exposed to pepper spray and tear gas on the campus of Emory University on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Matthew Pearson/WABE hide caption

Washington, D.C.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupy the University Yard of The George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C. on Thursday. A person with an Israeli flag argued with the group of Pro-Palestinian demonstrators and had to be escorted away and into a university building by GWU police. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupy the University Yard of The George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption

Demonstrators pause for evening prayer during student-led protests and occupation of University Yard of The George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption

Connecticut

A University of Connecticut student is arrested during a rally on campus calling for the university to divest from companies they say are playing a role in the Israel-Hamas war. More than 150 people attended the event April 25, 2024. Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public hide caption

A University of Connecticut student is arrested during a rally on campus calling for the university to divest from companies they say are playing a role in the Israel-Hamas war. More than 150 people attended the event April 25, 2024.

As the sun sets, Muslim protestors pray during a rally on campus at the University of Connecticut calling for the university to divest from companies they say are playing a role in the Israel-Hamas war. One person was arrested as several hundred people attended the event April 25, 2024. Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public hide caption

Yale students stage a protest in an intersection in downtown New Haven on April 22, 2024 after police cleared an encampment outside the Beinecke library, where Pro-Palestinian demonstrators had staged tents for three nights calling for the school to divest its endowment from weapon manufacturers they say play a role in Israel's war in Gaza. Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public Radio hide caption

New Haven activist Norm Clement walks with a Palestinian flag in front of hundreds of Yale students, who shut down an intersection in downtown New Haven on April 22, 2024 after police cleared an encampment and arrested 45 students outside the Beinecke library. Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public Radio hide caption

Auraria Police arrest protesters advocating for the end of Israel's offensive in Gaza after they occupied the Tivoli Quad and refused to leave on April 26, 2024. Kevin Beatty/Denverite hide caption

Yelling protesters seen in the reflection of a Denver Police officer assisting in the arrests of protesters advocating for the end of Israel's offensive in Gaza, by occupying the Auraria Campus' Tivoli Quad on April 26, 2024. Kevin Beatty/Denverite hide caption

Denver law enforcement removed and arrested protesters on April 26, 2024 on the Auraria Campus. Kevin Beatty/Denverite hide caption

Men pray while police arrest protesters nearby. Kevi Beatty/Denverite hide caption

Officers surrounded the camp on the Tivoli Quad and began attempting to remove the two dozen or so people who refused to clear out at the Auraria Campus. Kevin Beatty/Denverite hide caption

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Universities Struggle as Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Grow

Dozens were arrested Monday at N.Y.U. and Yale, but officials there and at campuses across the country are running out of options to corral protests that are expected to last the rest of the school year.

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By Alan Blinder

At New York University, the police swept in to arrest protesting students on Monday night, ending a standoff with the school’s administration.

At Yale, the police placed protesters’ wrists into zip ties on Monday morning and escorted them onto campus shuttles to receive summonses for trespassing.

Columbia kept its classroom doors closed on Monday, moving lectures online and urging students to stay home.

Harvard Yard was shut to the public. Nearby, at campuses like Tufts and Emerson, administrators weighed how to handle encampments that looked much like the one that the police dismantled at Columbia last week — which protesters quickly resurrected. And on the West Coast, a new encampment bubbled at the University of California, Berkeley.

Less than a week after the arrests of more than 100 protesters at Columbia, administrators at some of the country’s most influential universities were struggling, and largely failing, to calm campuses torn by the conflict in Gaza and Israel.

During the turmoil on Monday, which coincided with the start of Passover, protesters called on their universities to become less financially tied to Israel and its arms suppliers. Many Jewish students agonized anew over some protests and chants that veered into antisemitism, and feared again for their safety. Some faculty members denounced clampdowns on peaceful protests and warned that academia’s mission to promote open debate felt imperiled. Alumni and donors raged.

And from Congress, there were calls for the resignation of Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, from some of the same lawmakers Dr. Shafik tried to pacify last week with words and tactics that inflamed her own campus.

The menu of options for administrators handling protests seems to be quickly dwindling. It is all but certain that the demonstrations, in some form or another, will last on some campuses until the end of the academic year, and even then, graduation ceremonies may be bitterly contested gatherings.

For now, with the most significant protests confined to a handful of campuses, the administrators’ approaches sometimes seem to shift from hour to hour.

“I know that there is much debate about whether or not we should use the police on campus, and I am happy to engage in those discussions,” Dr. Shafik said in a message to students and employees early Monday, four days after officers dressed in riot gear helped clear part of Columbia’s campus.

“But I do know that better adherence to our rules and effective enforcement mechanisms would obviate the need for relying on anyone else to keep our community safe,” she added. “We should be able to do this ourselves.”

Protesters have demonstrated with varying intensity since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. But this particular round of unrest began to gather greater force last Wednesday, after Columbia students erected an encampment, just as Dr. Shafik was preparing to testify before Congress.

At that hearing in Washington, before a Republican-led House committee, she vowed to punish unauthorized protests on the private university’s campus more aggressively, and the next day, she asked the New York Police Department to clear the encampment. In addition to the more than 100 people arrested, Columbia suspended many students. Many Columbia professors, students and alumni voiced fears that the university was stamping out free debate, a cornerstone of the American college experience.

The harsher approach helped lead to more protests outside Columbia’s gates, where Jewish students reported being targeted with antisemitic jeers and described feeling unsafe as they traveled to and from their campus.

The spiraling uproar in Upper Manhattan helped fuel protests on some other campuses.

“We’re all a united front,” said Malak Afaneh, a law student protesting at University of California, Berkeley. “This was inspired by the students at Columbia who, in my opinion, are the heart of the student movement whose bravery and solidarity with Palestine really inspired us all.”

The events at Columbia also rippled to Yale, where students gathered at Beinecke Plaza in New Haven, Conn., for days to demand that the university divest from arms manufacturers.

Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, said Monday that university leaders had spent “many hours” in talks with the protesters, with an offer that included an audience with the trustee who oversees Yale’s Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility. But university officials had decided late Sunday that the talks were proving unsuccessful, and Dr. Salovey said, they were troubled by reports “that the campus environment had become increasingly difficult.”

The authorities arrested 60 people on Monday morning, including 47 students, Dr. Salovey said. The university said the decision to make arrests was made with “the safety and security of the entire Yale community in mind and to allow access to university facilities by all members of our community.”

In the hours after the arrests, though, hundreds of protesters blocked a crucial intersection in New Haven.

“We demand that Yale divests!” went one chant.

“Free Palestine!” went another.

Far from being cowed by the police, protesters suggested that the response at Beinecke Plaza had emboldened them.

“It’s pretty appalling that the reaction to students exercising their freedom of speech and engaging in peaceful protest on campus grounds — which is supposed to be our community, our campus — the way that Yale responds is by sending in the cops and having 50 students arrested,” said Chisato Kimura, a law student at Yale.

The scene was less contentious in Massachusetts, where Harvard officials had moved to limit the possibility of protests by closing Harvard Yard, the 25-acre core of the campus in Cambridge, through Friday. Students were warned that they could face university discipline if they, for instance, erected unauthorized tents or blocked building entrances.

On Monday, Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee said on social media that the university had suspended it. National Students for Justice in Palestine, a loose confederation of campus groups, said it believed the decision was “clearly intended to prevent students from replicating the solidarity encampments” emerging across the United States. Harvard said in a statement that it was “committed to applying all policies in a content-neutral manner.”

Elsewhere in the Boston area, protesters had set up encampments at Emerson College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University. But those protests, for now, appeared more modest than the ones at Yale and in New York, where demonstrators constructed an encampment outside N.Y.U.’s Stern School of Business.

N.Y.U. officials tolerated the demonstration for hours but signaled Monday night that their patience was wearing thin. Police officers gathered near the protest site as demonstrators ignored a 4 p.m. deadline to vacate it. As nightfall approached, sirens blared and officers, donning helmets and bearing zip ties, mustered. Prisoner transport vans waited nearby.

“Students, students, hold your ground!” protesters roared. “N.Y.U., back down!”

Soon enough, police officers marched on the demonstration.

“Today’s events did not need to lead to this outcome,” said John Beckman, a university spokesman, in a statement . But, he said, some protesters, who may not have been from N.Y.U., breached barriers and refused to leave. Because of safety concerns, the university said it asked for assistance from the police.

At Columbia, Dr. Shafik ordered Monday’s classes moved online “to de-escalate the rancor.”

She did not immediately detail how the university would proceed in the coming days, beyond saying that Columbia officials would be “continuing discussions with the student protesters and identifying actions we can take as a community to enable us to peacefully complete the term.”

Some students and faculty members said support for Dr. Shafik was eroding, with the university senate preparing for the possibility of a vote this week to censure the president. Supporters of the censure complained that Dr. Shafik was sacrificing academic freedom to appease critics.

But Dr. Shafik was castigated on Monday by the very people she was accused of appeasing when at least 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives demanded her resignation.

“Over the past few days, anarchy has engulfed Columbia University,” Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York and one of Dr. Shafik’s chief interrogators last week, wrote with other lawmakers. “As the leader of this institution, one of your chief objectives, morally and under law, is to ensure students have a safe learning environment. By every measure, you have failed this obligation.”

A university spokesperson said that Dr. Shafik was focused on easing the strife and that she was “working across campus with members of the faculty, administration, and board of trustees, and with state, city, and community leaders, and appreciates their support.”

Amid the acrimony, and with scores of green, blue and yellow tents filling the Columbia encampment, parts of the campus sometimes took on an eerie, surreal quiet on a splendid spring day.

The unease was never all that far away, though, even with many Jewish students away from campus for Passover.

“When Jewish students are forced to watch others burning Israeli flags, calling for bombing of Tel Aviv, calling for Oct. 7 to happen over and over again, it creates an unacceptable degree of fear that cannot be tolerated,” Representative Daniel Goldman, Democrat of New York, said outside Columbia’s Robert K. Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life.

By then, in another symbol of the crisis enveloping Columbia, Mr. Kraft, an alumnus and owner of the New England Patriots, had launched his own broadside and suggested he would pause his giving.

“I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff,” he wrote in a statement, “and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken.”

Reporting was contributed by Kaja Andric , Olivia Bensimon , Troy Closson , Maria Cramer , Liset Cruz , Jacey Fortin , Amanda Holpuch , Eliza Fawcett , Sarah Maslin Nir , Sarah Mervosh , Coral Murphy Marcos , Sharon Otterman , Wesley Parnell , Jeremy W. Peters , Karla Marie Sanford , Stephanie Saul and Derrick Bryson Taylor .

Alan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education. More about Alan Blinder