Los Angeles police violently arrest protesters at University of California / UCLA

San Francisco, June 4 (RHC)-- Protests over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continue across the United States, on university campuses and in the streets. 

Over the weekend, police raided a student encampment at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  About 80 arrests were made.  This comes as academic workers continue to strike at UC Santa Cruz. 

According to local reports, strikes are expanding this week at three more University of California campuses.  Labor actions began on Monday at UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego, followed by UC Irvine on Wednesday.

At the University of Chicago, dozens of students walked out of their commencement ceremony after school officials withheld diplomas from four seniors who had participated in a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus.  Protesters could be heard screaming “Stop genocide” during the ceremony.

At Vassar College in New York, hundreds of alumni disrupted the school’s reunion weekend.  More than 1,200 Vassar alumni have vowed to withhold donations until the school cuts ties with companies supplying Israel with weapons.

In New York City, students at Columbia University set up a new encampment named “Revolt for Rafah” on Friday as the school held its Alumni Reunion Weekend.  Also in New York, student protesters disrupted commencement ceremonies at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work.  Protesters displayed banners with the logos of universities destroyed in Gaza.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, New York police arrested 34 protesters as they attempted to occupy the Brooklyn Museum.