Pro-Palestinian group establishing encampment at Harvard [Video]

On Wednesday afternoon, Harvard University became the latest institution to contend with a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on campus. Sister station WCVB’s news helicopter was overhead when a protest march on the university’s historic campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, suddenly became a rush to establish an encampment. Members of the group rushed inward onto a triangular piece of grass and began a scramble to assemble tents.No officials were seen attempting to interfere with the effort. The group, Harvard for Palestine, had advertised its intention to hold a rally at noon in front of Massachusetts Hall, a three-century-old dorm on Harvard Yard. Like other groups demonstrating on campuses around the country, they are demanding Harvard divest from companies that supply Israel in connection with that nation’s monthslong conflict with Hamas. Harvard for Palestine was suspended by the university and the group was ordered to cease all activities earlier this week, The Harvard Crimson …