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MIT, Emerson College students start pro-Palestinian camps inspired by Columbia University protests

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Inspired by protests at Columbia University, pro-Palestinians camps have been set up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emerson College.

BOSTON - Dozens of students put up tents at the campuses in Cambridge and Boston Sunday night to protest the Israel-Hamas war.Columbia University protestsMore than 100 people have been arrested at Columbia since protests started there last Wednesday. The pro-Palestinian demonstrators want the university to divest from Israel and they've criticized the school's response to the war.

As protests there entered a sixth day, Columbia's president said all classes Monday will be remote to 'deescalate the rancor.'MIT, Emerson College protestsStudents protesting at MIT want the school to cut research ties with the Israeli military. Emerson students want the college to support 'Palestinian liberation.''We're trying to take our education into our own hands. We're sick of what our school's been doing,' Emerson student Owen Buxton told WBZ-TV.

 

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