Campus protests spread. Once again that is where America's conscience can be found.
In spite of the arrest of hundreds of students on a number of university campuses, the movement against Israel’s war on Palestinians, and the Biden administration’s support for it, continues to spread.
It makes me proud.
Columbia’s president Nemat Shafik said that the tensions at the university "have been exploited and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with Columbia who have come to campus to pursue their own agendas."
That’s pathetic.
She’s pathetic.
How lame do you have to be to bring up that tired old “outside agitator” baloney?
She must have gone through Columbia University files from 1968 to dust that bull off.
It’s the same with the Anti Defamation League’s attempt to paint these protests as antisemitic.
On the contrary. The campus protests by students and faculty are America’s conscience.
The encampment was erected at Columbia last Wednesday, the same day that University President Shafik was hauled in to testify at a congressional hearing.
Following her appearance in Washington Shafik called in New York police to clear the encampment on Thursday and more than 100 students were arrested and charged with trespassing.
Trespassing on their own university?
Columbia said the students have been suspended.
How do you suspend somebody who is an outsider?
But the protest has continued, with some participants putting up tents on Columbia's green again over the weekend where they remain, joined by thousands of students and members of the faculty.
At Yale cops arrested pro-Palestinian protesters in an encampmentearly Monday.
Students had set up tents on Beinecke Plaza on Friday and protested over the weekend, urging Yale to end any investments in defense companies that do business with Israel.
New Haven police said they had assisted the Yale Police Department with arrests.
About 45 protesters were charged with criminal trespass on their own university.
Yale President Peter Salovey again used the “outside agitator” slur. Salovey said, "Some of the aggressors are believed to be members of the Yale community while others were outsiders.”
Was it “outside agitators” again protesting at NYU.
Arrests were made at NYU after an encampment set up by students grew to hundreds of protesters.
NYU spokesperson John Beckman said barriers were erected on the plaza outside its business school after about 50 protesters began demonstrating there "without notice to the University, and without authorization."
The university "was deeply disturbed," Beckman said in a statement, when "additional protesters, many of whom we believe were not affiliated with NYU, suddenly breached the barriers" to join others already on the plaza.
The arrests included members of the NYU faculty, CNN reported.
Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee said the university's administration has suspended the group.
It was ordered to "cease all organizational activities for the remainder of the Spring 2024 term" or risk permanent expulsion, The Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported.
At MIT students have set up an encampment on the school's campus demanding it cut its research ties with the Israeli military.
Apparently MIT’s protest involved no outsiders or else none were detected.
Shreya Chowdhary, a graduate student, told the Michigan Daily that the encampment their was inspired by the events at other universities across the country.
"It is a national movement that we're participating in to demonstrate that students across the United States are not going to stand for our universities funding genocide and profiteering from genocide," Chowdhary said.
And it seems the movement continues to spread.
It is a national movement in which there are no outsiders.