NEW YORK — Cops on Monday cleared an encampment at Yale University to protest the war in Gaza and detained dozens of students, as demonstrators at New York University and The New School set up tents after a similar action at Columbia University led to the arrests of more than 100 protesters.

Yale students had set up a camp Friday in Beinecke Plaza, the central area on the school’s New Haven campus. Demonstrators called on university administration to divest from Israel.

Administrators said the students could stay through the weekend but would be evicted Monday. When protesters refused to leave Monday morning, cops moved in.

“With no warning of when they would come, police ambushed us at 6:40 am while students at the encampment were sleeping,” the student-led group Occupy Beinecke posted on Instagram.

“Yale, you have intimidated us, criminalized us, militarized our campus, and failed to accept our demands,” the students continued. “We will not stop, we will not rest until we have disclosure and divestment.”

A spokeswoman for Yale did not immediately return a request for comment.

New Haven police said they arrested an estimated 45 people and released all of them with summonses to appear in court. The protesters were all charged with misdemeanor trespassing.

“No one will stop you from leaving. If you do not leave, you will be arrested. We will give you time to leave. If you do not leave, you will be arrested,” police announced to student protesters, videos show.

As of Monday at 6 a.m., about 50 NYU undergraduate and graduate students occupied Gould Plaza on W. 4th St. outside the Stern School of Business, according to the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition of student and faculty groups and university officials. Messages emblazoned on signs and tents included “deoccupy,” “free Palestine” and “Jews for anarchy.”

“Heeding the call from our comrades at Columbia, NYU students have brought the Gaza Solidarity Encampment to our campus,” the coalition said. “We amplify the call for Palestinian liberation and the divestment of our universities from the zionist project.”

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