Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Graduations at Pomona College, UC Berkeley

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted graduation ceremonies at Pomona College and the University of California, Berkeley, this weekend as the student movement against Israel continued to simmer across the country. Pomona College, a private university with about 1,750 students located in Claremont—about 30 miles east of Los Angeles—moved its May 12 graduation ceremony to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles after protesters created an encampment on the school’s campus. Administrators announced the decision to move Sunday’s ceremony two days prior, hoping to avoid clashing with demonstrators. As friends and family members arrived at the Shrine Auditorium, though, they were met with hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters who had set up another camp nearby....