Pro-Palestinian protests in college campuses up the ante

Last week, over 100 students were detained during a pro-Palestinian rally at Columbia University in New York. Similarly, New York University (NYU) saw the arrest of dozens of students on Monday night who, along with faculty members, occupied a central campus plaza in protest against the university’s alleged backing of Israel, refusing to vacate the area.

At Yale University in Connecticut, approximately 50 pro-Palestinian students were taken into custody after they erected tents in the campus’s main plaza and remained there, demanding that the university stop…