Protests against Israel's war in Gaza spread across college campuses nationwide
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza are continuing to grow across the U.S. |
| 0:06.0 | The University of Southern California announced today it's cancelling its main commencement ceremony next month. |
| 0:12.0 | Encampments are now in place in at least 20 colleges |
| 0:15.7 | and hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested in the last several days at |
| 0:19.3 | multiple schools, including the University of Texas, Ohio State, and Emory University. |
| 0:24.8 | Amid police confrontations, multiple arrests and large demonstrations, |
| 0:32.3 | top city will never be able. multiple arrests and large demonstrations, Emory University today became the latest flashpoint |
| 0:38.0 | in a wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. |
| 0:42.0 | Early this morning at Boston's Emerson University, violence erupted as police cleared a student |
| 0:49.2 | encampment. |
| 0:50.2 | More than 100 were arrested. |
| 0:51.8 | Authorities say four officers were injured. |
| 0:54.0 | That followed this clash at the University of Southern California. |
| 1:00.0 | Officers there say protesters refuse to remove their encampments. |
| 1:04.0 | The protesters say they were provoked. |
| 1:07.0 | What we just saw was an act of USC, |
| 1:10.0 | acting aggressively and failing to defend and in fact being the aggressor against its students. |
| 1:17.0 | By nightfall, more than 90 people were taken into custody. |
| 1:20.0 | These incidents are just the latest in a series of pro-Palestinian demonstrations unfolding |
| 1:26.0 | on campuses from coast to coast and beyond, including universities in Paris, Cairo and Sydney. |
| 1:36.0 | Some in the US say they want their universities to cut financial ties with Israel. |
| 1:45.0 | We want the university to disclose its financial holdings and divest from its relationships |
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