The level of risk we are taking on is nothing compared to what Palestinians are going through in Gaza,” one graduate student said. “Children are being intentionally starved as a military strategy. This is a super urgent situation.

Harvard’s action against students comes as college campuses across the country have seen pro-Palestine student encampments pitched as an expression of resistance to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Many within those encampments have called for their institutions to divest from Israel.

Harvard University again threatened suspensions for pro-Palestinian protesters if they don’t leave a campus encampment, escalating tensions in an impasse that’s left the school as one of the few elite colleges that hasn’t forcibly removed demonstrators.

Both schools—along with Harvard University—have long been in the hot seat over their handling of a tense debate on campus over the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Police dismantled protest camps and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania on Friday, in the latest crackdowns on demonstrations roiling U.