At Columbia, student demonstrators barricaded themselves into a campus building. At Yale, the police were called in to clear an encampment that protesters are vowing to reoccupy.

The unfolding events at the two campuses represent the stark choices facing the leadership at elite American universities, who are grappling with how to respond to increasingly confrontational proPalestinian protesters.

Fueled by the viral power of social media, the ongoing demonstrations at colleges across the US are sparking recriminations that are drawing in everyone from students to faculty, and billionaire donors to politicians. They have also intensified debate over how universities respond to antisemitism versus other forms of discrimination, and allow for free speech while keeping students safe.

The latest dramatic turn in the protests came just after midnight Tuesday in New York, when students broke through doors to enter the Hamilton Hall building at Columbia and shut themselves inside.

They piled tables and chairs to block doors and covered security cameras. They also unfurled banners from the windows that read “Student Intifada,” a reference to armed Palestinian uprisings against Israeli occupation, and “Hind’s Hall,” a reference to a child killed in Gaza.

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