French police called in to break up US-style pro-Palestinian student demo

Authorities at a prestigious Paris university have called in the police to end pro-Palestinian students’ occupation of part of the campus, a protest method that is under way at dozens of American universities.

The law enforcement confronted the protesters, who numbered around 60, and had occupied the Sciences Po university’s Saint Thomas campus in the French capital’s Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood on Wednesday.

The protesters demanded that the university “cut its ties with universities and companies that are complicit in the [ongoing Israeli]…