Elsewhere, 25 pro-Palestine demonstrators were arrested at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville as police in riot gear used pepper spray to disperse protesters from an encampment which they had set up last week.
In a letter to the university, Jim Ryan, the college president, said police had been called in after students defied instructions not to set up a camp and urged outsiders to join the protest.
“This repeated and intentional refusal to comply with reasonable rules intended to secure the safety, operations, and rights of the entire university community left us with no other choice than to uphold the neutral application and enforcement of those rules,” he wrote.
In Los Angeles police in riot gear mounted a pre-dawn raid to clear an encampment at the University of Southern California.
Students who refused to leave were threatened with arrest.
There are also fears that the violent clashes with counter-demonstrators which erupted at the University of California in Los Angeles could be repeated elsewhere.
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