Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at colleges across the U.S. are being suspended after, defying requests to leave.
Columbia University on Monday began suspending the students who refuse to leave the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, hours after the deadline to leave the encampment passed.
Columbia University on Monday began suspending the students who refuse to leave the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, hours after the deadline to leave the encampment passed.
In this edition of Eyewitness News Extra Time, we have the latest on the chaos at Columbia University as protesters continue to defy orders to disperse.
For more than two weeks, Columbia University graduate student Aidan Parisi has defied the university’s suspension, refusing to vacate his dorm room on the school's Manhattan campus. The school announced Parisi’s suspension on April 4 following his participation in a pro-Hamas event. And while Columbia leaders have pledged to enforce the suspension, they have yet to follow through. In the meantime, Parisi has contributed to the mayhem that has engulfed the campus over the past several days,...
April 29 (UPI) — Columbia University President Minouche Shafik on Monday said talks have broken down with student organizers on campus protesting Israel‘s occupation of Gaza, and the university’s investments in Israeli-backed financial institutions. In a letter Monday to the university, Shafik said how since Wednesday, “a small group of academic leaders has been in constructive dialogue with student […] The post Columbia sets deadline for student protesters to leave or be suspended first...
Columbia University students are calling for classes to become virtual and urging the administration to do more to assure public safety as anti-Israel protesters invade campus in a tent encampment. Columbia students Friday wrote in a letter that they do not feel safe as chaos descended upon the Ivy League campus. Anti-Israel protesters refuse to leave the "Gaza Solidarity'' tent encampment until the school meets their "demands" including divesting from companies that do business with the Jewish...
MANHATTAN—Student protesters at Columbia University stormed a campus building overnight, using a hammer to smash glass doors and tables and chairs to barricade the entrance. Once in control of the building, the protesters hoisted an "intifada" banner. The takeover of Hamilton Hall came around 1 a.m. Student protesters marched through campus chanting "free Palestine" before moving to the hall. Masked individuals were filmed using hammers and other tools to open and then barricade a door to the...
Columbia University has reportedly started suspending students involved in an anti-Israel encampment established on the campus grounds.
Professors at Emory University arrested as campuses follow Columbia’s lead in demanding ceasefire and divestmentFour students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza: ‘Injustice should not be accepted’At least 40 pro-Palestine protest camps have arisen across US campuses following Columbia University’s example earlier this month, as the New York school’s senate called for an investigation into its leadership, the New York Times reported.While many remain provocative though peaceful,...
Follow NBC News' live coverage for updates as counterprotesters clash with pro-Palestinian students at UCLA after NYPD clears occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
Well, it certainly took them long enough. As we reported earlier, Columbia University issued a 2 p.m. Monday deadline for students to abandon the anti-Israel encampment that has overtaken the campus or they’d face consequences. However, 2 p.m. came and went, nothing happened, and the NYPD was not sent in to clear out the place as some expected even though the defiant mob did not move.