Police officers retreat from pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA

Columbia University officials have blamed “outside agitators” for the escalation of pro-Palestinian campus protests as they defended their decision to send in police to remove and arrest student activists. American universities are on edge after officers from New York to Los Angeles entered campuses where demonstrators protesting the war on Gaza had erected encampments and seized academic buildings. At Columbia, the epicentre of student action, about 230 people were arrested and arraigned on charges of trespass and vandalism. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: