Pro-Palestinian encampment cleared in Chicago as campus protests continue

The confrontations come as campuses try a range of strategies to resolve the protests against the Israel-Hamas war 

A police officer stands guard blocking pro-Palestinian protesters from returning to their encampment as the encampment is dismantled at the University of Chicago (Picture: Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago  as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the US — and increasingly, in Europe.

Nearly three weeks into a movement launched by a protest at Columbia University, the Rhode Island School of Design held talks with protesters occupying a building, and MIT dealt with a new encampment on a site that was cleared but immediately retaken by demonstrators.