Rally held to support Jewish students; pro-Palestinian encampments stay [Video]

A day after police cleared a Northeastern University pro-Palestinian encampment in Boston, it appears another encampment on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is on the verge of being shut down.Students are demanding that the university cut all ties with the Israeli military, including any research ties. MIT’s president said university leaders were in talks with student demonstrators on Friday.However, on Saturday, MIT Coalition for Palestine said the university canceled a meeting with them.MIT’s president released a video message addressing the difficulty in responding to these protests.“We are being pressed to take sides – and we’re being accused of taking sides. We’ve been told that the encampment must be torn down immediately, and that it must be allowed to stay. That discipline is not the answer, and that it is the only answer,” said President Sally Kornbluth. “I can only describe the range of views as …