2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses

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2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
Part of the Gaza war protests
Clockwise from top: Columbia University Harvard University Monash University University of Amsterdam McGill University University of Sydney University of Oregon
Date	April 17, 2024 – July 2024 (3 months, 1 week and 3 days)
Location	Global (primarily Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, UK, and US) List of countries[1] Argentina Austria[2] Australia Bangladesh[3] Belgium[4] Brazil[5] Canada Costa Rica[6] Cuba[7] Denmark Egypt Finland France Germany India Indonesia[8] Iraq[9] Ireland Italy Japan Kuwait Lebanon Mexico Netherlands[4] New Zealand[10] Portugal[11] Romania[12] South Africa[13] South Korea[14] Spain Sweden[15] Tunisia[16] United Kingdom United States Yemen
Caused by	Opposition to Gaza genocide U.S. support for Israel Investments in Israel[17]
Goals	Universities divesting from Israel
Methods	Protests Civil disobedience Lawsuits Picketing Rolling strikes Occupation Civil disorder
Lead figures
Primary organizers Students for Justice in Palestine Palestinian Youth Movement Jewish Voice for Peace IfNotNow Young Democratic Socialists of America Independent formations Primary detractors University administrations Hillel International Chabad on Campus Israel on Campus Coalition
Casualties
Injuries	15-25+ protesters hospitalized[18]
Arrested	3,100+ protesters[19]

Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses escalated from April 2024 until the summer, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wider Gaza war protests. The escalation, nicknamed by activists the "student intifada", began on April 18 after mass arrests at the Columbia University campus occupation, led by anti-Zionist groups, in which protesters demanded the university's disinvestment from Israel over the Gaza genocide. Over 3,100 protesters were arrested in the U.S., including faculty members and professors, on over 60 campuses. Protests spread across Europe in May with mass arrests in the Netherlands, 20 encampments established in the United Kingdom, and across universities in Australia and Canada.

The different protests' varying demands included severing financial ties with Israel, transparency about financial ties, ending partnerships with Israeli institutions, and amnesty for protesters. Universities suspended and expelled student protesters, in some cases evicting them from campus housing. Many universities relied on police to forcibly disband encampments and end occupations of buildings, several made agreements with protesters for encampments to be dismantled,^[a] and others cut ties with Israeli institutions or companies involved with Israel and its occupied territories.^[b] The campus occupations also resulted in the closure of Columbia University, Cal Poly Humboldt, and the University of Amsterdam; rolling strikes by academic workers on campuses in California, and the cancellation of some U.S. university graduation ceremonies.

Hundreds of groups expressed support for the protests, and the police response in the U.S. was criticised. Supporters of Israel and some Jewish students raised concerns about antisemitic incidents at or around the protests, prompting condemnations of the protests by international leaders. Students and faculty members who participated in the protests, many of whom are Jewish, said the protests were not antisemitic. In May 2024, it was estimated that 8% of U.S. college students had participated in the protests, with 45% supporting them and 24% opposed. 97% of the protests remained nonviolent and 28–40% of Americans supported the protests with 42–47% opposed.^[c] The protests were compared to the anti-Vietnam and 1968 protests, politically criticized by a wide range of mainstream U.S. Republican and Democratic politicians, and frequently counter-protested by Zionist and right-wing organizations.

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