Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale
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Published 2024-04-23
Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel's attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid. This week, police have raided encampments and arrested students at Yale and New York University. Palestinian American scholar and New York University professor Helga Tawil-Souri describes forming a faculty buffer to protect students, negotiating with police, and the ensuing crackdown that led to over 100 arrests Monday night. Uptown in New York City, the encampment at Columbia University is entering its seventh day despite mass arrests of protesters last week. "In my opinion, the NYPD were called in under false pretenses by the president of the university," says Joseph Slaughter, professor at Columbia University. "The university is being run as a sort of ad-hocracy at this point, the senior administration making up policies and procedures and prohibitions on the fly, changing them in the middle of the night."
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All Comments (21)
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Heard of student protests in 1968, never thought everything repeats in 2024. We NEVER learned from history.
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American legal system is a clown show! That president needs to arrested. For lying to the police in order to cause harm.
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If politicians were called to the line of duty, there would never be wars
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US Universities are confirming to the public that there is even less reason to get those expensive degrees 😂😂😂
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No place should have genocide
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The President of the College asked their boss, AIPAC what do to. And they said "Get rid of these protests. They make us sad."
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Don't let anyone make you feel bad, if you're American, it's done in your name. If you're an American taxpayer, it's done in your name and your dime. Silence is consent
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1:02 why the heck is Columbia university investing in weapons manufacturers is the real q there
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I thought US is a free country !!
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If what Slaughter is saying here is true, Shafik needs to be removed from her position a University President. None of this is okay, you can't abuse authority to flout the rules and then punish the people you abused that way.
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I am writing from aotearoa new zealand. I am 68. My father was an excellent journalist. I am totally HORRIFIED AT THE OBSCENITY OF WHAT IS OCCURRING IN AMERICA TODAY. MY GRANDMOTHER WAS AMERICAN. SHE WILL BE TURNING IN HER GRAVE. FREE SPEACH IS ESSENTIAL IN A HEALTHY DEMOCRACY.
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My child is a student at one of these schools currently shut down due to protest. The protest rep says PEACEFUL PROTEST. Well, if you are barricading yourselves into campus buildings, spray painting “f*^k cops” on school buildings, defacing a memorial bench for a beloved Jewish professor and damaging school property, and protesters attacking police: you are NOT A PEACEFUL PROTEST!! You are a vandal and should be arrested. My student should not have to feel fear walking on her own campus over something the remaining students have NOTHING TO DO WITH. Freedom of speech and freedom to protest cannot come at the cost of freedom of another’s safety and livelihood. The protesters lost my support the second they vandalized my child’s school. They are NOT PEACEFUL AND NOT COOPERATIVE. The protesters have refused to meet admin for discussion.
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Equal treatment under the Bill of Rights - anything else is un-American.
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I'm a Columbia student and I trenchantly call for Shafik's removal from the board of the university for her tyrannical and inexcusable mismanagement.
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I am an old man who was a student in 1968 when we took over our university in Dublin, Ireland in solidarity with the students at the Sorbonne in Paris. In my case our philosophy class used our lecture hour to have a debate moderated by our lecturer in Philosophy. In the days during that turbulent week with meetings in the library run by the student union, I never saw one policeman. What a difference I see with what is happening in the United States.
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Bibi say... USA do... 🤮
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The admin was worried about scaring Jewish donors away
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The wheels are turning... change is coming for all.
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You gus had the same protest against Syria when Assad killed more than 4000 palastinians in Yarmuk? Or it only genocide when jews are involved?
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The President of Columbia University must resign immediately and be stripped of all tenure, no debate about it!
