Pro-Palestinian protesters take over Columbia University building

Pro-Palestinian protesters take over Columbia University building

US campus protests escalate after students suspended, while dozens arrested in Texas, Utah and Virginia

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Dozens of protesters have taken over a building at Columbia University in New York, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses across the US.

Video footage showed protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locking arms in front of Hamilton Hall early on Tuesday and carrying furniture and metal barricades to the building, one of several that was occupied during a 1968 civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protest on the campus.

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