The NYU protest at Gould Plaza led to a number of arrests last night. Tensions are still high there and at Columbia.
U.S. House Republicans from New York urged Columbia's president to resign, saying in a letter Monday that she had failed to provide a safe learning environment in recent days as “anarchy has engulfed the campus”for Monday, citing ongoing pro-Palestinian protests at the Ivy League school's Morningside Heights campus and increasing reports of student fear in calling for a"reset"
A plywood wall was seen being erected around NYU's Gould Plaza early Tuesday, hours after more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators,amid escalating tensions over pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses It wasn't immediately clear how many were arrested at NYU Monday, nor what charges they had faced. In the Columbia case, the NYPD responded to university complaints about trespassing and disorderly conduct."We are young. We are in college. We have the ability and we are being educated on all of these things," one of the protesters said."We take social science classes, we take classes that are supposed to illicit the humanity in us. This is the time we have to act.
Columbia University goes virtual on the sixth day of a pro-Palestinian encampment and protests on campus. The protests have pitted students against one another, with pro-Palestinian students demanding that their schools condemn Israel's assault on Gaza and divest from companies that sell weapons to Israel. Some Jewish students, meanwhile, say much of the criticism of Israel has veered into antisemitism and made them feel unsafe, and they point out that Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the group's Oct. 7 invasion.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina who was visiting Columbia with three other Jewish members of Congress, told reporters after meeting with students from the Jewish Law Students Association that there was “an enormous encampment of people” who had taken up about a third of the green.
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