The incident took place at Northeastern University in Boston on Saturday. It saw the police in riot gear detaining around 100 people.
The action was taken after some protesters resorted to "virulent anti-Semitic slurs,” the university alleged in a statement on the social media platform X.
Many US officials have been trying to accuse the pro-Palestinian student protesters of “anti-Semitism.”
Observers, however, assert that the students are only trying to hold the Israeli regime accountable for its atrocities in Gaza -- where at least 34,356 Palestinians have died as a result of the war so far -- and also press Washington to drop its political, military, and intelligence support for the military onslaught.
Following the police intervention, Northeastern said the area, where the protests had been held "was fully secured" by 11:30 am local time (1530 GMT), "and all campus operations have returned to normal."
The crackdown was the latest in a series of confrontations between law enforcement and the students, during which the police have rounded up hundreds of people and, at times, used chemical irritants and tasers.
Also on Saturday, the college president at the University of Pennsylvania ordered a similar encampment to be disbanded immediately.
On Thursday, though, students at Yale and Colombia, where the protests originated, vowed to press on with their pro-Palestinian activism at the universities as long as the US sustained its unreserved support for the war.
“This is only the beginning,” the students said in a statement, asserting, “Pushing the university struggle to its limit might contribute in a similar way to producing a constellation of revolutionary forces in the city today.”
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