BOSTON — Harvard students are the latest college kids to set up a tent encampment for Palestine, as they reportedly rushed Harvard Yard to create a “liberated zone” on the Cambridge campus Wednesday.

Meanwhile in Boston, Emerson College officials were warning students of “imminent law enforcement action” because the pro-Palestine protesters were violating several city rules.

Tent encampments have popped up at schools across the country in the last week following the arrests of Columbia University students amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Videos went viral on Wednesday after Harvard students were seen storming Harvard Yard to set up a tent encampment.

“Harvard establishes liberated zone,” the Harvard Out of Occupied Coalition posted.

“We have established this Liberated Zone to call for an end to Harvard’s moral and material complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people,” the group wrote.

The Harvard Out of Occupied Coalition is demanding that Harvard divest from all Israeli investments, and reinvest resources in Palestinian academic initiatives, communities and culture.

The group is also urging Harvard to drop all charges against students for “their organizing and activism, and commit to ending the weaponization of disciplinary policy.”

A spokesperson for Harvard did not immediately respond to comment on Wednesday.

Earlier this week, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee reported that it was suspended for the rest of the semester.

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