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Madison Police carry a demonstrator protesting against the war in Gaza at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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More American colleges were swept up in pro-Palestinian student demonstrations. Pro- and anti-Israel students clashed violently at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jewish students said earlier that they had been turned away from the campus by protesters. Hundreds of arrests were made across the country, including at the University of Texas in Austin and at Columbia, where students had occupied a building. The University of Florida said agitators who disrupted college life would be banished. Many students have tried to set up tent encampments. At the Sorbonne in Paris police moved swiftly to stop a copycat camp from being set up.

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