Pro-Palestinian demonstrators formed an encampment on Harvard’s main campus Wednesday, adding to the growing list of prestigious universities disrupted by anti-war demonstrations.

A small group of students put up about 13 tents in Harvard Yard while hundreds more joined them in support in front of the John Harvard statue, the Harvard Crimson reported.

Tensions have boiled over on several college campuses in the past week with protesters demanding that schools divest from companies they allege “profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine.” The protesters also seek an end to Israel’s military action in Gaza. 

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