The Growing Pro-Palestinian Protest Movement, Visualized

Protests over Israel’s military invasion of Gaza are becoming even more intense on college and university campuses almost seven months after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Clusters of student encampments have spread in recent days at schools including Columbia University. Police have made dozens of arrests after being called in by administrators.

“We will be here all day, all night, every day,” said Banan Abdelrahman, co-founder of the Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of California, Berkeley, where students set up a half-dozen tents earlier this week on the steps of Sproul Hall, a hot spot for anti-Vietnam War activism 50 years ago. “There is a national movement to take back our campuses.” 

The events of the past week are the latest crescendo in a movement that has seen more than 8,000 pro-Palestine protests in over 850 cities and towns across the U.S., according to data compiled by researchers at the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut.