Austin, April 30 (RHC)-- Police across the United States are continuing to crack down on student protesters calling for an end to Israel’s genocidal and vicious assault on Gaza. 

In Texas, police made at least 100 arrests Monday at a student-led encampment at the University of Texas at Austin.

Earlier this morning, police raided an encampment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, arresting at least 25 people.

In California, officials at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt have closed the school’s campus for the rest of the semester in an effort to shut down a student occupation.

Meanwhile, at The New School in New York, students have expanded their protest by occupying the lobby of the Parsons School of Design.  Students at the Fashion Institute of Technology are continuing their encampment in the school lobby, as well.

New protest encampments have begun at a number of schools, including the University of Chicago and the University of Oregon.

Campus protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza have also spread overseas, including Sorbonne University in Paris, where students said they were inspired by the protests at Columbia.

One organizer of the Paris protest, Leonard, told reporters: “I think that today we have the same concern as elsewhere, as at Columbia, as at Sciences Po, and how it has been happening for six months.  We’re denouncing what we are seeing before our eyes — that is to say, the genocide of the Palestinian people, which is being committed by the state of Israel with the active complicity of the French government — not just the French, of course, but as this is our government, in my opinion, we must denounce it.”