Pro-Palestinian student protests spread across Europe. Some are allowed. Some are stopped

By MIKE CORDER, BARBARA SURK and PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO
Associated Press

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists have spread across Europe as some call for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza. Schools increasingly face the question under debate in the U.S. of whether to allow them or intervene. German police broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University. Protesters occupied a university building in Amsterdam, and police detained 169 people. Elsewhere in Europe, some student camps have been allowed to stay in places like the lawns of Cambridge. Students have protested or set up camps in Finland, Denmark, Italy, Spain, France and Britain.