UCLA cancels classes after violence erupts on campus over the war in Gaza NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

Counter-protesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, and activists clashed with police officers who destroyed their tents at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, part of a series of escalating violence on some college campuses over the war in Gaza.

Fifteen people were injured during the UCLA confrontation, including one person who was hospitalized, according to the president of the University of California system. The chaotic scenes unfolded Wednesday after police burst into a building occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia University on Tuesday night, breaking up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school.

Chancellor Gene Block at UCLA said in a statement that “a group of instigators” came on campus Tuesday night to “forcefully attack” the pro-Palestinian encampment, prompting the school to ask for assistance from outside law enforcement.

Counter-protesters, a few of whom were carrying Israeli flags, had thrown traffic cones and chairs, released pepper spray, and pulled down the barricade surrounding the encampment. Some from the pro-Palestinian …