As we reported earlier, Columbia University had exhausted negotiations with protesting students and set a 2 p.m. deadline for the students behind the encampment there to pull up stakes or face disciplinary action.
Nearly two weeks ago, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik assured members of Congress that an anti-Semitic professor had been terminated. That professor, Mohamed Abdou, was "grading his students' papers" before the end of the semester and would "never teach at Columbia again," Shafik said.
Alisa Solomon, The Nation Columbia offers a case-study in how right-wing politicians are using exaggerated claims of anti-semitism to advance a conservative agenda.
Activists at Columbia occupied a building overnight as administrators threatened to start suspending students. Joseph Howley, associate professor of classics at Columbia University, talks about how he and other faculty are supporting protesters at Columbia and Hadeeqa Arzoo, vice president of CCNY’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and organizer at the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment, shares what activists at the City College of New York are demanding.
In Narragansett, there were reports of 2-inch hail, the size of a hen egg,
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NYPD Raids Columbia, Protesters Arrested Update (2335ET): The NYPD stormed Columbia University Tuesday evening at around 9pm local time, where they began arresting students occupying Hamilton Hall and cleared a nearby protest encampment on the college's lawn. BREAKING 🚨 Massive amounts of NYPD officers have entered the @Columbia campus to clear out pro-Hamas occupiers. pic.twitter.com/Ujj2Dxz30w — Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 1, 2024 Around 50 students were arrested and...
New York's Columbia University, which has been beset by antisemitic protests in recent weeks, tried to bargain with the miscreants on Monday, threatening their academic status if they continue to occupy the campus.
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