How students built a pro-Palestine protest movement, one tent at a time

On May 1, all that remained of Columbia University’s “Liberated Zone,” the Gaza Solidarity encampment that students formed on the campus’s South Lawn, were pale-yellow patches of grass where more than 100 tents once stood. It is a ghostly reminder of more than two weeks of occupation that ended in a brutal confrontation with law enforcement. [Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images] The night before, the school’s president, Minouche Shafik, authorized the NYPD to sweep all...