There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police arrested about 125 activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam, as protests that have stirred up campuses in the United States spread into Europe.
“The protest in this form created a very unsafe situation, partly due to the barricades that prevented emergency services from entering the site. Demonstrators said they would stay at the site in central Helsinki until the university, which is Finland’s largest academic institution, cuts academic ties with Israeli universities.About 45 tents were erected on the lawn outside the campus of the Faculty of Social Sciences, known as CSS.The university’s administration said students can protest on campus but called on them to respect the rules on its grounds.
On their Facebook page, members of the activist group Students Against the Occupation said their attempts to talk to the administration over the past two years about withdrawing the school’s investments in companies with ties to activities in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories have been in vain.
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