NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Sarah Ludington of Duke University's School of Law about the first amendment protections for students who are protesting on college campuses.
Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University's campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.The action came as university administrators around the United States have struggled for weeks to contain pro-Palestinian demonstrations on dozens of campuses.
MANHATTAN—New York City police officers entered Columbia University on Tuesday night to arrest students who seized a school building, a move that came after president Minouche Shafik declined for days to bring police to campus as unsanctioned protesters refused to leave their "Gaza Solidarity" encampment.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said that, according to “so-called pro-Israel students” at Columbia that he met with when he visited campus last week, the antisemitism they have faced on campus “has been
New York police moved on to the campus to clear out Hamilton Hall, an academic building that had been taken over as part of pro-Palestine protests. Police arrested nearly 100 people as they cleared Columbia University of demonstrators who were issued a notice to disband their encampment after negotiations failed to come to a resolution Continue reading
Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter Isra Hirsi says that Columbia University students were targeted. She described the protest as peaceful.
NYPD have entered the Columbia college campus and are making arrests and dispersing pro-Gaza protesters
New York congressman Jamaal Bowman (D.) refused to condemn anti-Israel protesters at Columbia who stormed a campus building overnight, smashing windows and causing the campus to effectively shut down in the morning.
Riot police stormed Yale University’s campus and arrested dozens on Monday
Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was seen on social media Thursday greeting her daughter during an anti-Israel protest at Columbia University, saying she was there with students in solidarity against "right-wing attacks."
Pro-Palestinian encampments have emerged on other campuses, including at the University of Michigan, New York University, and MIT.
Police in cities and towns across the country have been deployed in recent days to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a growing number of encampments and occupied buildings on college and university campuses.