Harvard Protests Mount as Tensions Spread Over Israel-Hamas (2)

Students at Harvard University escalated their campus protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict, mirroring actions that have erupted at Columbia, Yale and NYU.

Hundreds of Harvard affiliates gathered on Wednesday to demonstrate against the suspension of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, with some flooding into Harvard Yard from their dorms while cheering and putting up tents.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at an encampment at Columbia University in New York on April 24.

Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg

The protests, spanning colleges from the University of Michigan to University of California at Berkeley, have centered on calls for the schools to sever financial ties with companies linked to Israel and for the US to end military aid, as well as demands that administrations ...