President of MIT calling for shutting down pro-palestinian encampments NBC Boston [Video]

The president of MIT says the encampment on campus needs to be shut down here after hundreds of students at Northeastern and Emerson were arrested for similar demonstrations.

102 people were arrested on Saturday morning at Northeastern, with police breaking up pro-Palestinian encampments there. The University in their decision citing antisemitic chants to quote “kill the Jews,” something students and faculty deny. Video shows those chants came from counter-protesters holding Israeli flags.

A more violent scene unfolded at Emerson College Thursday, where 118 people were arrested for camping out in Boylston Place Alley. The student government has since taken a vote of no confidence in their president.

At MIT, around 30 students set up more than a dozen tents on the Kresge lawn, putting up signs expressing their support for the Palestinian people and calling on the university to cut their research ties with Israel.

President Sally Kornbluth releasing a …