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The protest comes amid growing division over the Israeli prime minister's anticipated address before a joint session of Congress this week.
A group called "Youth Demand" took credit for the splashy protest.
During his own remarks, President Biden called conditions in the region "heartbreaking."
University of Southern California's student journalists recorded police surrounding largely peaceful demonstrators protesting Israel's siege on Gaza.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
History professor Annelise Orleck said the response to the pro-Palestinian protest was like nothing she'd seen in her three decades at Dartmouth.
Dueling groups of protesters clashed at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another.
Tuesday night's campus crackdown happened exactly 56 years after police were called to arrest Columbia students protesting the Vietnam War.
On April 30, 1968, police flooded onto Columbia University's campus to end a demonstration students had staged a scene that was eerily repeated 56 years later.
The university said it wont divest from Israel and that it has failed to come to an agreement with students protesting the war in Gaza.
Students have dug in at dozens of pro-Palestinian encampments around the country, prompting a range of responses from administrators.