Groups opposing the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and seeking an independent state of Palestine held a forceful, yet peaceful, protest on the OU campus.

News4JAX spoke with demonstrators at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville along with students who are not demonstrating and both said they think they’ve found the balance between having the campus ready for graduation and protesting peacefully.

Across campuses where protests have broken out, students have called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to U.S. military assistance for Israel, university divestment from a

Up to a thousand pro-Palestinian protestors have marched through New York following the shut down of one of the last student protest encampments at New York University. Earlier in the day, officials had asked for the police’s assistance to disperse the encampments,

Some U.S. universities with weekend graduation ceremonies are taking steps to keep a lid on possible disruptions

The president of the University of Chicago said on Friday that the pro-Palestinian encampment on his campus’s quad “cannot continue,” a position that was being closely watched in higher education because the university has long held itself up as a national model for free expression.

Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U.S. and in countries like Australia,