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Masked anti-Israel protesters are demonstrating on Tuesday exterior of one of many entrances to Columbia College, chanting, “Free Palestine!” and holding indicators urging the Ivy League faculty to “divest from demise” as college students try to get to their first day of lessons.
The demonstrations come after a collection of protests rocked the New York Metropolis-based college this previous spring, which generated worldwide media consideration and greater than 100 arrests. The anti-Israel exercise additionally comes simply days after Hamas killed six hostages, together with 23-year-old Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Hamas had been holding them captive – and continues to carry almost 100 others – since they carried out terror assaults in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Not less than one protester was captured on video being arrested on Tuesday whereas different demonstrators had been noticed pushing barricades and getting right into a scuffle. A second male particular person was then taken into custody exterior Barnard Faculty, which is throughout the road from Columbia.
The demonstrations started as peaceable, with protesters strolling round in a circle on a sidewalk close to one in every of Columbia’s entrances in Higher Manhattan.
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An anti-Israel protester is seen being arrested close to Columbia College on Tuesday, Sept. 3. (Fox Information)
“We refuse to dwell in a world the place the mass homicide of Palestinians is regular, acceptable, and worthwhile. Columbia College is complicit in genocide,” the group Columbia College students for Justice in Palestine wrote on X. “Their investments in weapons producers & protection contractors, firms comparable to Lockheed Martin, are fueling the genocide.”
Anti-Israel protesters reveal exterior Columbia College on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
“As we start our new semester, college students in Gaza don’t have any universities to return to. As a substitute of listening to the coed physique, Columbia College is doubling down. We is not going to cease and we is not going to relaxation till Columbia divests from apartheid and genocide,” it added. “That is only the start.”
The “Alma Mater” statue at Columbia College, situated exterior the Ivy League faculty’s Low Library, is seen lined with pink paint on Tuesday, Sept. 3. (WNYW)
Columbia College didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.
One protester was seen carrying an indication that stated “Lengthy dwell Hind’s Corridor.” In late April, an anti-Israel mob broke into and occupied Hamilton Corridor on Columbia College’s campus. The group then positioned a banner over the ability, renaming it “Hind’s Corridor,” apparently after Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old who died throughout Israel’s struggle with Hamas in Gaza.
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The demonstrations on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024 come following protests that occurred within the spring semester that resulted within the occupation of a constructing and greater than 100 arrests at Columbia College. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
One scholar on the scene advised Fox Information reporter Alexis McAdams that “we’re right here as a result of there’s nonetheless an ongoing genocide that america is materially and politically accountable for.”
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Persons are seen falling to the bottom throughout a scuffle at Columbia College in the course of the anti-Israel protests on Thursday, Sept. 3. (Fox Information)
When requested if he thought protests would begin rising at Columbia College this semester, the coed stated, “We’ve been very clear that won’t cease till Columbia has divested from its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian folks, that’s all I’ve to say.”
Fox Information’ Sandy Ibrahim, Lawrence Richard and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox Information Digital.
