Following police involvement, students at a top institution in Paris resumed their pro-Palestinian demonstrations

Two days after French police broke up another demonstration, students at a prominent university in Paris began pro-Palestinian protests on Friday, drawing inspiration from Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses throughout the US.

Many Sciences Po students used trash cans, a bike, metal parts, and wooden platforms to block the entrance to a university building located in central Paris. In spite of authorities who, according to students, called the police on their peers two days before, some forty people stayed in the building overnight.

Over a hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in the amphitheater outside the university’s Paris campus on Wednesday night. Following conversations with management, the majority of students decided to depart, although a small number stayed. French media reported that later that night, they were taken out by police.

The Palestine Committee of Sciences Po organized the protest, which called for the administration to sever ties with businesses and academic institutions due to their purported support of Israel’s Gaza offensive.

As part of a series of protests rocking campuses from California to Connecticut, Columbia University students are entrenching themselves for the tenth day in opposition to the Israel-Hamas war.

In the United States, hundreds of students and even some professors have been arrested, sometimes in the midst of altercations with the police.

Columbia University in New York is in negotiations with student protestors who have resisted police and become more militant. Law enforcement has been called in to put an end to protests before they had a chance to spread to other schools. If the talks with the demonstrators don’t work out, Columbia officials have stated they will look for other solutions.