Ex-US official Josh Paul cancels talk at Dartmouth College after protesters arrested

Josh Paul, the former US official who resigned over the Gaza war, has cancelled a talk at Dartmouth College after 90 anti-war protesters were arrested on Wednesday at an encampment erected on campus.

The demonstration, organised in solidarity with protests at other US universities where more than a thousand people have been arrested in the past two weeks, was reportedly set to be the first large-scale encampment on a New Hampshire college to protest against Israel's assault on Gaza.

About two hours into the protest, the college paper reported that New Hampshire state troopers, state police, including riot police, and local police were present as arrests began and tents were removed.

Paul, who was scheduled to participate in a panel discussion on Thursday, said he watched "a peaceful group of students, faced off by a line of riot police", from his hotel across the road.

"I have seen a police snatch squad break into the encampment and grab students and faculty one-by-one, and haul them off, as the riot police close the line behind them," he wrote.

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