Students activists are asking for an end to violence and for universities to divest from companies that profit from the war between Israel and Hamas.

Thirteen people, including six students, were arrested during Monday night’s protest at Virginia Commonwealth University where protesters clashed with police and chemical irritants were used, VCU

Pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University early Tuesday entered the same campus building that students advocating for racial justice occupied in the 1960s, a significant escalation at the elite institution that launched dozens of campus demonstrations across the world.