Pressure builds for colleges to close or shut down anti-Israel encampments amid death threats toward Jews

Calls are mounting to temporarily shutter schools plagued by anti-Israel unrest as most colleges continue to pursue a hands-off approach to the encampments — even as the vitriol increasingly includes explicit threats of violence against Jews and others who don't support the metastasizing movement.

"Columbia should shut down campus entirely, take all learning remote, but also padlock the campus and arrest all trespassers," said Brooke Goldstein, a human rights attorney and founder of the...