As Pro-Palestinian Activists Turned Up the Heat, This College Hit a Boiling Point

One week ago, after months of intense pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Pomona College (CA) hit a breaking point. Students had been camping on the small California campus’s main quad for several days, alongside a 32-foot-long art installation they put up to highlight harms done to Palestinian people. The morning of April 5, students had voluntarily taken down all their tents.