The Columbia University student groups behind the "Gaza Solidarity" encampment held what they called an "autonomous rally" outside campus, where they projected the words "Escalate for Gaza" on the side of Hamilton Hall, the building protesters stormed and occupied earlier in the week.
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.
Amber X. Chen While the mainstream media repeatedly mischaracterizes pro-Palestine protests on campus, police and university administrations are attempting to repress the student press.
Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided mediaOn Tuesday night, we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates. The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists and lacerations – all results of inhumane police treatment. The past two weeks have been tumultuous, marked with mass arrests of student demonstrators, an encampment on our lawns, national media attention and vile acts of hatred....
Violations of the policy may result in suspension or expulsion; and applicable charges for littering, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and/or termination of employment.
On Wednesday morning, UNLV pro-Palestinian group Students for Justice in Palestine will host a May Day Walk Out and Rally in support of Palestine.
“Shut it down!” demonstrators shouted, forming a human chain around the academic building early Tuesday.
Lara-Nour Walton Pro-Palestine students have taken over the same building that anti-Vietnam War and anti-gentrification protesters occupied in 1968.
Hundreds of university students in Lebanon protested on Tuesday against Israel's bombardment of Gaza, inspired by recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have rocked US and European campuses, AFP correspondents said.Dozens of students gathered at the prestigious American University of Beirut (AUB), some wearing the traditional Arab keffiyeh scarf that has long been a symbol of the Palestinian cause, an AFP photographer said.
The demonstrations have led Columbia to hold remote classes. The school said in an email to students that bringing back police "at this time" would be counterproductive. The university said it will offer an alternative venue for the protests after exams and graduation.
Aniko Bodroghkozy, who participated in protest on Columbia's campus in 1985, spoke with TIME about how recent protests compare to other moments in the school's history some 40 and 56 years back.
NEW YORK >> Columbia University officials today threatened academic expulsion of students who seized and occupied a classroom building as the standoff between administrators and pro-Palestinian activists on the Manhattan campus intensified.