A pro-Palestinian protest that began at Columbia university has taken hold in hundreds of US campuses
Early on Tuesday the beleaguered administration at Columbia confirmed that overnight students had gained access to Hamilton Hall, the building that was previously seized during the 1968 student protests against the Vietnam war, and used tables and furnishings to barricade its doors. “The safety of every single member of this community is paramount. The first step we have taken is to ask members of the university community who can avoid coming in to do so,” the university said.
On Monday four Irish students at Columbia gathered to speak about a fortnight that has left the university struggling to control its campus in the defining semester of the academic year, with exams and commencement to prepare for. Peter said the response of the university’s administration, which asked the New York City police department to remove protesters from the campus lawn on April 17th, was the result of “enormous top-down pressure”.
“This is not about the war with Hamas and Gaza,” Brian Cohen, the executive director of Columbia’s Kraft Centre for Jewish Student Life, said on Monday. “This is not about an occupation. This is about students inspired by their faculty who fundamentally disagree with the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. It has been obvious to anyone paying attention that students and faculty members are trying to send a message that Zionists, Jewish students, Israelis do not belong on this campus.
The demands of students at GWU mirror those of the Columbia protest group and others: to protect pro-Palestinian speech, to drop all charges against participating groups, to have the university disclose its investments and to divest from Israel. The university’s response, Miriam said, has been to remove access to bathrooms and to suspend a number of students.
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