# Columbia student encampment accelerates nationwide campus protest wave

Date: 2024

Gaza solidarity protests on university campuses escalated in April 2024, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wider protests against the war and genocide in Gaza. With over 3,100 protesters arrested in the U. S.

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