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People are protesting on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus in support of Palestine on Wednesday.Students holding signs and chanting, and the scene organized and peaceful.”From Palestine to the Philippines … stop the U.S. war machine … stop the U.S. war machine,” students are chanting. Protests on many campuses across the country are not peaceful.Dueling groups of protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another. Hours earlier, police burst into a building at Columbia University that pro-Palestinian protesters took over and broke up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school while inspiring others.Video below: NYPD arrest pro-Palestinian protesters at ColumbiaIn New Orleans, SWAT officers descended on Tulane University’s campus with guns drawn Wednesday. Authorities surrounded an encampment of people protesting in support of Palestine.Multiple law enforcement agencies began clearing the encampment around 4 a.m.Multiple demonstrators have already been taken into custody since the protest began Monday. Fourteen were arrested Wednesday after authorities say they left private property and walked onto the neutral ground on St. Charles Avenue. Two of the 14 are reportedly Tulane students.Click here for the latest headlines from KETV NewsWatch 7