Pro-Palestinian protests escalated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as students and faculty resisted an administrative order by the MIT president to vacate an encampment by 2:30 PM on Monday. The demonstration, initially localized within MIT, saw participation from high school students across Boston, including those from Boston Latin, who walked out in response to increasing police repression and in solidarity with Gaza. Despite the administration's threat of academic suspension, the protesters, including a significant number from UMass Amherst and RISD, continued their demonstration, leading to confrontations with police and multiple arrests. The situation intensified as protesters at MIT, Harvard, and UMass Amherst, among others, formed human shields and barricades, blocking Massachusetts Avenue, re-establishing the encampment even after police intervention, and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Several MIT students were suspended for their involvement.
Cops clear anti-Israel encampment, arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing spiked https://t.co/hluAFzFaff
📍UMass Amherst Scenes from last night at UMass Amherst, as an army of riot cops were deployed to brutalize protestors. At least 130 arrests were made. Cops reportedly dragged one student out of a wheelchair to arrest them, & ripped a medics vest off. Fuck 12, free Palestine. https://t.co/dAuEM1eu4h
Police cleared a student encampment at George Washington University hours before DC’s mayor was scheduled to testify on her response to the protests. Story: https://t.co/qSdpIQFoHH https://t.co/RJn7Bja9ty
DC Police conducted a mass-arrest raid of George Washington University around 4am this morning. Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/PUKkKyTIeR
Police break up GWU Gaza encampment https://t.co/G4tk4s4Qu0
BREAKING: DC police conduct surprise raid to clear George Washington U Gaza Camp, 38 arrested https://t.co/qL5LEyNfG3
MIT police and more than 30 pro-Palestinian protesters are confronting each other in front of a parking garage underneath the Stata Center Tuesday morning as ongoing demonstrations at the university spread beyond the campus encampment. https://t.co/wLEvxX1Jyp
DC Metro police conducted a surprise raid at GWU early this morning. They didn't hold back. https://t.co/EPRLwg9X0p
BREAKING: DC Police conducted a mass-arrest raid of GWU at 4am last night https://t.co/sJXSFvip6I
Students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) occupy a building, joining nationwide protests against the war in Gaza amid breakdown in talks between leaders and students @risd https://t.co/EEBWoENBXp
DC Police conducted a surprise raid on the GWU Gaza Camp at 3am this morning https://t.co/IYgKg0BlXM
Hundreds of Metropolitan Police Department officers, at the request of the George Washington University administration, liberated University Yard early this morning, clearing the encampment and arresting some of the protestors.
Police break up pro-Palestinian encampment at UMass Amherst https://t.co/Su0hbDg7fd
MPD cleared out the GWU encampment early this morning. Organizers tell me dozens have been arrested. @7NewsDC https://t.co/oB8yEvCshH https://t.co/XFEQaI4WrC
BREAKING: A Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson said officers are working to clear the University Yard encampment at about 3:45 a.m.
BREAKING: D.C. police clearing the encampment at George Washington University ahead of congressional testimony
Approximately 50 student Boston-area high school students blocked Massachusetts Avenue in front of MIT on Monday afternoon for at least four hours as part of a pro-Palestine protest. @asherjmont reports. https://t.co/zJwIVIlasY
UMass Amherst calls in police to disperse new pro-Palestinian encampment https://t.co/JQBwXYZTT4
BREAKING: A huge group of police officers move across the UMass Amherst Campus. I imagine this group will dismantle the encampment since many arrests have already been made. https://t.co/FiyWqbuOLv
BREAKING AND HOLY SH*T: A line of arrested UMass Amherst students is led off campus by police. How many were arrested tonight? https://t.co/xa0teJGdX2
Tonight on the @UMassAmherst campus: riot police cracking down on encampment arresting students and faculty. https://t.co/JfAdCsKjWf
BREAKING: Students are getting arrested at UMass Amherst: https://t.co/K5y9xf7s4r
BREAKING: Students are being arrested at UMass Amherst. Footage isn't for the faint of heart. A possible student activist rushes in to prevent the arrest of another encampment occupier. No one backs him up as he tries to prevent the arrest and overwhelm the police. He proceeds… https://t.co/CDNYLdr2nJ
Faculty at UMass were arrested by police after failing to leave the campus encampment https://t.co/Rs3fs5TBQx
Police at UMass Amherst attempting to disperse the anti-Israel encampment. https://t.co/VS24YwGyHm
BREAKING: Students appear to be next to be arrested at UMass Amherst https://t.co/LPcmTFThz4
BREAKING: UMass Faculty have been arrested for not leaving the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus. https://t.co/n9BPUvHFt8
Dozens of MIT students who refused to clear an anti-Israel encampment on campus Monday are being suspended and referred to the Committee on Discipline, Chancellor Melissa Nobles wrote in a Tuesday update. https://t.co/VAcTBQr7CG
🚨HAPPENING NOW AT UMASS AMHERST: FACULTY ARRESTED AT GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT https://t.co/XUOY1f3w4k
Pro-Palestinian protesters Monday night retook an encampment that had been mostly emptied that day after administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brokered an agreement with students. https://t.co/yADJtF70VE
Update at MIT: The anti-Israel encampment is still going, even though students were told they’d be suspended if they didn’t leave yesterday. A temporary fence is diving the lawn with the encampment on one side and an Israeli Independence Day celebration on the other. https://t.co/29ULAozLMv
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, students broke the fence used by the authorities to encircle the Gaza solidarity camp, thus renewing the protest. https://t.co/zrSImDODkS
Protesters at RISD continue to occupy building on campus and demand divestment https://t.co/y90sU4c9pd
LATEST DETAILS: Protesters at MIT, Harvard hunker down despite orders to leave encampments https://t.co/Hbmbnrx0fl
Anti-Israel agitators at MIT take down barrier, retake campus encampment after police cleared it https://t.co/8odMYtl71k
Pro-Palestinian protesters knocked down barricades and took over fields at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school has warned students that those who don't leave the campus encampment could be suspended https://t.co/P1PGUmdcld https://t.co/TeRVLHu6iu
About 200 students from various high schools headed towards the Gaza solidarity encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday. The students joined other demonstrators there in a show of support as they resisted police orders to clear the encampment. https://t.co/ulZOaaYZkc
Pro-Palestinian protesters retake MIT encampment, occupy building at Rhode Island School of Design https://t.co/it8NX1kWuK
#Pro-#Palestinian #protesters break through barricades to retake #MIT #encampment https://t.co/wBjee2LlgZ
Pro-Palestinian protesters that had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there, as Columbia University canceled... https://t.co/0lrMboXmMA
Tensions rise at MIT order pro-Palestinian protesters to clear encampment. https://t.co/4abqlGBdSW
RISD student protesters barricade themselves inside campus building https://t.co/pEFYruByyM
Pro-Palestinian protesters that had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at MIT broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there on Monday. https://t.co/v6EN9SeVYP
Aerial footage by WCVB-TV shows pro-Palestine protesters on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus pushing through barriers set up around the Gaza solidarity encampment and forming a human chain around it on Monday. https://t.co/eB6OixsUOH
Protesters blocked Massachusetts Avenue at rush hour as efforts to remove pro-Palestinian encampment at MIT stalled https://t.co/4rt408NJcP
Live updates: Protesters still occupied a pro-Palestinian encampment at MIT Monday evening, after the school gave students an afternoon deadline to vacate. https://t.co/uX14FB2GGJ
Protesters at MIT re-constitute the Gaza solidarity encampment and form a human shield around it. https://t.co/GWV2Lc5NmP
BREAKING: High school students join MIT students for a sit-in to block Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge. The students are chanting for a free Palestine. https://t.co/QDUiauS0V4
LATEST DETAILS: Pro-Palestinian protesters block Mass. Ave., tear down barricades after MIT orders demonstrators to leave encampment https://t.co/pwcfkrSXf7
HAPPENING NOW: A large group of student protesters continue calling for a ceasefire in Gaza after MIT ordered pro-Palestinian demonstrators to leave the encampment today or face suspension. https://t.co/yXhmPvkb17
BREAKING: High school students from across Boston walk out of class to join the MIT student encampment in response to the increasing police repression. Eleven high schools, including private high school Boston Latin, have walked out to stand with Gaza. https://t.co/f0U1e0YDOJ
MIT Orders Pro-Palestinian Encampment to Disband by 2:30PM, Threatens Suspension Read More: https://t.co/fKQv5lLpyT
At @MIT now, where the administration has ordered the encampment cleared by 2:30 (https://t.co/8LdNZAhovW). Overwhelmingly, the protesters have complied. The encampment is empty except for a handful of holdouts. Lot of people at the camp entrance, though, and it’s lively. https://t.co/26fBB0ef7G
MIT’s president on Monday gave pro-Palestinian students who have camped out in the heart of the Cambridge campus a deadline of 2:30 p.m. to leave the encampment or face discipline, including academic suspension. https://t.co/qWcI8gwAxc