Arrests roil campuses nationwide ahead of graduation
Voice of America
Students at Columbia University paint a response to a message written by Palestinians in Rafah thanking students for their support as they continue to maintain a protest encampment on campus, April 28, 2024.
Protests are roiling college campuses nationwide as schools with graduation ceremonies next month face demands they cut financial ties to Israel because of the Israel-Hamas war.
A displaced Palestinian woman stands with children as they prepare to flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City, in the southern Gaza Strip May 13, 2024. This handout image shows a field hospital operated by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 10, 2024.
FILE - A student walks around the University of New South Wales campus in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. FILE - An entrance to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 23, 2022. In this photo provided by Duke University, commencement speaker Jerry Seinfeld speaks during the school's graduation ceremony, May 12, 2024, in Durham, N.C. A tiny contingent of graduates opposed the pro-Israel comedian speaking at their commencement Sunday. FILE - An entrance to the main Duke University campus is seen in Durham, NC, Jan. 28, 2019. FILE - Students walk to and from classes on the Indiana University campus, Oct. 14, 2021, in Bloomington, Ind.
FILE - This photo taken on April 29, 2024, shows Kayah people gathering at a delivery of drinking water by the charity Clean Yangon at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township, in Myanmar's eastern Kayah state. Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref, Sudan, on May 12, 2024. A street in the city of Omdurman damaged in the year-long civil war in Sudan, April 7, 2024.
FILE - A poll worker holds a ballot during ballot counting at a polling station during the presidential election in N'Djamena, Chad, May 6, 2024. FILE - Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby casts his vote for the presidential elections in N’Djamena, Chad, May 6, 2024. FILE - Chad police officers patrol the streets in N'Djamena on May 10, 2024, a day after the announcement of the results of Chad's presidential election.