NOW: Columbia college students are occupying the garden in entrance of Butler Library as Columbia President Minouche Shafik testifies earlier than Congress
NYPD is confining members of the media to a pen on the sidewalk and not using a view of the garden pic.twitter.com/JZ69M3NE0B
— katie smith (@probablyreadit) April 17, 2024
Reps from @BarnardCollege entered the garden at @Columbia the place a whole bunch of scholars have gathered for a Gaza Solidarity Encampment calling on the college to divest from Israel.
Admins inform college students to speak to them to keep away from disciplinary motion. College students chortle & chant “Hell no.” pic.twitter.com/737hTS8cFQ
— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg) April 17, 2024
COLUMBIA STUDENTS ERECT 60 TENTS AND WILL STAY THERE UNTIL THEY DIVEST FROM ISRAEL pic.twitter.com/Q2CXoqzA6G
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 17, 2024
It’s heartening that these leftists are extra towards the Palestine conflict than they have been for the Ukraine conflict.
On its face, it’s complicated why they’d assist one conflict and never the opposite. However should you research it for a bit, you understand that these individuals are simply baby-level retards, and so they assume that someway the Ukrainians are the identical factor because the Palestinians – a “resistance” preventing a foul enemy.
However perhaps, when the Ukraine collapses and 1,000,000 males are useless for actually no purpose in any respect, the leftists will discover the truth that the pinnacle of their valuable Ukraine is a Jew and a supporter of Israel – funded by an Israeli Jew billionaire.
In the event that they don’t ever determine that out, as a result of they’re actually retarded, then no matter. I assist them protesting the Israeli Jews, even when they assist all the opposite Jews. On the very least, they’re ultimately going to have to appreciate that the individuals in Washington are all Jewish, and that’s the reason we now have a suicide pact with Israel.
This camp is spectacular.
A whole bunch of Columbia College college students arrange practically 60 tents and shouted anti-Israel slogans on the campus’ important garden Wednesday – simply as Columbia President Minouche Shafik testified earlier than Congress about antisemitism on the Ivy League college.The Gaza Solidarity Encampment first sprung up close to Butler Library earlier than 5 a.m., that includes a make-shift row of tents and indicators that includes slogans reminiscent of,“Israel bombs, Columbia pays,” in reference to Israel’s navy motion within the Gaza Strip after the Oct. 7 terror assault.
“Free, free Palestine!” the pro-divestment protesters might be heard chanting in video from the scene captured by The Put up.The occasion was quickly met by counter protesters waving Israeli flags, whose numbers grew by the early night.
“These guys have been chanting ‘Dying to the Zionist state,’” Jonny Lederer, a Columbia sophomore, instructed The Put up of the protestors.
“So I’m going there with my Israeli flag and my megaphone and I say ‘Hear, are you able to condemn Hamas on October 7?’ They have been silent…not one individual was in a position to condemn it.”
The divestment advocates and pro-Israeli counter protestors circled up on the quad, whereas one speaker appeared to commandeer the scene with a megaphone.
Because the pro-Palestinian protestors cheered, one of many counter protestors was heard yelling out “Are you able to name for the discharge of the hostages [held by Hamas in Gaza]?”
Exterior the campus gates, pro-Palestinian protestors wielded indicators with slogans like “Israeli forces slaughter Palestinians ready for meals” and “Stop genocide.”
The NYPD arrived on the scene a number of hours into the protest, and restricted the press to a pen exterior the primary gates on Broadway and 116th Avenue.Columbia had already restricted entry to the primary campus to college ID holders forward of Shafik’s congressional look, the Spectator famous.
Columbia public security introduced that it was additionally closing the campus’ important gates at 4 p.m. Wednesday because of the ongoing protest.
The climate is breaking, so we’re going to see extra stuff like this.
It’s necessary to recollect this: protest season is simply getting began.
Ideally, there shall be a camp in entrance of the White Home.
Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this text.
