Demonstrations of solidarity with Palestinians under the Israeli siege in Gaza have spread to college campuses across the United States and around the world in recent weeks.
More than 2,000 people have been arrested on US college campuses since April 18, amid polarized debates over the right to protest, the limits of free speech and accusations of anti-Semitism.
But while clashes and standoffs with police at New York's Columbia University, Portland State and UCLA have captured global attention, rallies and protests are also being held on campuses in parts of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
And while demands among protesters vary at each university, most demonstrations have called on colleges to divest from companies that support Israel and the war in Gaza.
The current war began on October 7, when Hamas militants killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 200 people hostage. Since then, Israel's military response has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza that has inflamed public opinion worldwide.
Israel's nearly seven-month bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 34,600 people, according to Gaza's health ministry. Half of the 2.2 million people in Gaza are on the brink of starvation, according to a scale used by United Nations agencies. Concerns are also growing over an expected Israeli military operation in Rafah in southern Gaza, which has led to renewed calls for a ceasefire.
Here are some of the pro-Palestine protests on campuses around the world.
Australia
In recent weeks, pro-Palestine protest camps have sprung up at at least seven universities across Australia.
The University of Queensland in Brisbane has become a meeting point for rival camps set up about 100 meters from each other – one of supporters of UQ Students for Palestine, and another smaller cluster of tents with the Israeli flag, among others. tied to trees.
They were set up in solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli siege in Gaza and student protesters in the US, but some Jewish groups say they are causing unnecessary tension on campus and the leader of the Australian opposition has called them “racist” and “anti-Semitic”.

UQ Students for Palestine wants the university to disclose all links with Israeli companies and universities and to cut ties with weapons manufacturing companies.
So far, the violent scenes that erupted at US universities have not been repeated in Australia.
At the University of Sydney, about 50 tents line the quadrangle where up to 100 protesters sleep each night. On May 3, Jewish groups held a counterprotest against what they considered to be “a disturbing trend of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli activities” at the university.
More than 200 people, some of them with Israeli and Australian flags, gathered on the Sydney campus, but there was no direct confrontation between them, who called on followers to help them “defend” their camp.
UK
Pro-Palestine protests have been held at universities across the UK since the early days of Israel's war in Gaza, with some setting up camps in recent days.
At Newcastle University, a small pro-Palestine camp was set up on a lawn in front of college buildings, videos and photos on social media showed. The X account “Newcastle Apartheid Off Campus” shared images of their camp, which shows about a dozen tents on the lawn, some adorned with Palestinian flags.
The group describes itself as a “student-led coalition fighting to end the University of Newcastle’s partnership with defense companies that supply Israel”.

Students from the English cities of Leeds, Bristol and Warwick also set up tents outside university buildings to protest the war in Gaza, according to the PA news agency.
Campus protests in Britain have drawn criticism from some Jewish student groups amid calls for universities to take their duty of care to Jewish students more seriously.
France
In Paris, pro-Palestinian protests broke out at Sciences Po University and Sorbonne University in late April. French police removed protesters from the Sorbonne – one of the country's most prestigious universities – on April 29, with a video geolocated by CNN showing officers dragging two protesters out of tents and across the ground.
On Friday (3), riot police emptied the main hall of Sciences Po, with protesters shouting “shame!” and “Free Palestine!”, although the removal appeared to proceed calmly.
Dozens of students began a demonstration inside the university the day before, prompting the closure of the campus, a Sciences Po spokesperson said. One protester said a student began a hunger strike in protest of the university's response to “students who want to support Palestine.”
The video of CNN showed students carrying signs calling for an end to the “genocide” in Gaza and a boycott of Israeli universities.

Sciences Po is one of France's most highly regarded universities and the alma mater of a number of presidents, including current leader Emmanuel Macron. It has strong ties to Columbia University, where students have held widespread pro-Palestine protests.
“We are inspired by Columbia, Harvard, Yale, UNC, Vanderbilt,” Sciences Po student Louise told CNN . “All these universities have mobilized, but our solidarity remains with the Palestinian people first and foremost.”
Amid the protests, the president of the Ile-de-France region said the university will no longer receive funding from the Paris regional authority, “until serenity and security are restored at the school.”
Samuel Lejoyeaux, president of the Union of Jewish Students of France, called for more dialogue between protesters on both sides of the ideological divide.
In an article for Le Monde newspaper on Thursday, he said pro-Palestine protesters needed to do more to “clearly denounce anti-Semitism” but that sending in the police was not the answer.
“I will never be happy to see CRS [polícia de choque] walking onto a campus,” he wrote. “More than anything, I believe in dialogue. The great social advances in France have always been the result of militancy and debate,” he added.

India
Protests were held at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi in solidarity with students protesting in Columbia. The protests coincided with an expected campus visit by US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti, which was postponed.
“JNU premises will not provide a platform for administrations and personnel representing nations complicit in terrorism and genocide committed by Israel,” said a statement from the JNU student union on April 29.
JNU, one of India's top universities, has been at the forefront of several protest movements, including 2019 demonstrations against a controversial law that critics say discriminates against Muslims.
Two student political parties at Jamia Milia Islamia University in New Delhi also expressed solidarity with the pro-Palestinian protesters.
“We also denounce the stance taken by our BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)-led government in support of Israel, which deviates from India's historical stance,” said a statement from the Communist Party-affiliated Students' Federation of India.
Canada
Protests against Israel's war in Gaza have swept campuses across Canada. At McGill University in downtown Montreal, pro-Palestinian student protesters set up a camp on the front lawn.
Like their counterparts in the US, students are demanding that the college divest from companies linked to Israel.
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