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- Protests have rocked Columbia University's campus.
- Demonstrators opposing the war in Gaza want the school to divest from Israel.
- In 1985, protesters had staged their divestment campaign — and it worked.
The unrest at Columbia University isn't showing signs of slowing down.
Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools' investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it.
It's a shockingly familiar scene.