Pro-Palestinian protests are currently escalating at Columbia University in New York. The students broke doors and windows and blocked entrances, among other things, university spokesman Ben Chang said Tuesday. Columbia University is now threatening the occupiers with eviction.
The demonstrators would have been given the opportunity to leave the building peacefully. They rejected that. On Tuesday morning (local time), several masked people smashed windows at the renowned university and blocked doors with metal tables. Chang spoke of a “threatening environment” for many Jewish students and employees. Both teaching and studying for final exams are currently hampered.
Connections with Israel Conflict problem
The demonstrators demand, among other things, that the university divest companies with ties to Israel and speak out against the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The university management had been negotiating with the students since Wednesday. Individual students have already been suspended. Now they are also threatened with exmatriculation. “If they continue like this, there will be obvious consequences,” Chang said on Tuesday.
Arrests again and again
In mid-April, the university team had already called the police to the campus. More than a hundred people were arrested. Protests in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip also spread to other universities in the US (see video above). Last weekend, more than 350 protesters were arrested across the country.
Source: Krone
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