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NEW YORK Pro-Palestinian protesters that had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there and Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony after weeks of demonstrations.
Sam Ihns, a graduate student at MIT studying mechanical engineering and a member of MIT Jews for a Ceasefire, said the group has been at the encampment for the past two weeks and that they were calling for an end to the killing of thousands of people in Gaza.
NEW YORK Columbia University canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony Monday following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled it