Across campus, students raised trembling voices, burst into applause and brushed away tears.

Just over 150 high schools were closed, and France’s education minister invited three major student groups to meet with him on Thursday afternoon.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday framed the mass student protests sweeping France as evidence of the country’s “out of control mass migration” and Islam, neither of which are consistent with protesters’ demands for better school conditions.

More than 250,000 people took to streets across France on Tuesday as teachers, parents, and union activists joined students who have spent the past two weeks protesting, what they say is, a poorly-funded high school system.

A candlelight vigil on Wednesday evening organized by Israelis for Peace New York to mourn the victims of the Oct. 7 attack as well as those killed in Gaza descended into chaos.