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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS REFUSE TO DISBAND

 * By Brandon Drenon
 * BBC News

23 April 2024
Updated 1 hour ago
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Pro-Palestinian protesters have refused to disband from Columbia University's
main campus after a midnight deadline was set by the institution's president.

Dr Minouche Shafik warned demonstrators that "alternative options" would have to
be considered for clearing the area on the New York City campus if an agreement
with demonstrators was not reached.

A group representing pro-Palestinian protesters said it would not continue
engaging in negotiations.

No police action has been reported.

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The standoff comes as tense Gaza war protests have spread to US colleges
nationwide.

Some 133 people were arrested on Monday in protests at New York University.

Dozens of arrests were also made in rallies at Yale, while Harvard has
restricted access to the campus.

Gaza war demonstrations have also cropped up at colleges in the US Midwest and
on the West Coast, where one campus has been closed.

At Columbia, officials said on Tuesday that an ongoing protest encampment on
university grounds - in Manhattan - is in violation of the rules.

Dr Shafik announced a midnight deadline for negotiations as a result, stating
that the university "will have to consider alternative options for clearing the
West Lawn and restoring calm to campus so that students can complete the term
and graduate" if an agreement between students and administration staff was not
reached.

Just after midnight, Columbia University Apartheid Divest - a coalition of
pro-Palestinian student groups - said it would not continue to engage in
negotiations "until there is a written commitment that the administration will
not be unleashing the NYPD or the National Guard on its students".

Prior to the president's warning, the university extended remote classes at the
campus for the rest of term.

Columbia provost Angela Olinto announced students would have the option of
attending classes remotely at the Ivy League institution's main Morningside
Campus until the last day of classes on 29 April.

"Safety is our highest priority," she said in an email.

Jewish students have expressed concern about antisemitism on and around
Columbia's campus.

On Monday, President Joe Biden said he condemned both "the antisemitic protests"
as well as "those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians".

Image source, Getty Images

Image caption, A deadline for student pro-Palestinian protesters to disband at
Columbia University has passed

One student filed an NYPD hate crime report on Monday saying that he had been
hit in the head with a rock while carrying an Israeli flag, the New York Post
reported.

Shai Davidai, a Columbia University professor who has been outspoken about his
support for Israel, said he was banned from campus and his ID was "deactivated".

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine said they "firmly reject any form of
hate or bigotry" and disavowed "inflammatory individuals who do not represent
us".

The Columbia University president said tensions on campus had been "exploited
and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with Columbia who have come
to campus to pursue their own agendas".

Dr Shafik last week defended her efforts to tackle antisemitism on campus as she
testified to a US congressional committee.

Also last week, New York City police arrested more than 100 people amid Gaza war
demonstrations on Columbia's campus, including the daughter of Democratic
congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Image source, EPA

Image caption, Students listen to a speaker at a protest at Emerson College

Elsewhere, nine students were arrested in Minneapolis on Tuesday morning as they
attempted to set up a protest camp in front of a library on the University of
Minnesota campus.

In New York on Tuesday, several hundred protesters were gathered near the NYU
campus in Washington Square Park.

The crowd chanted "shame, shame" and protesters criticised New York city police
and university administrators.

Police were called to NYU on Monday to break up demonstrations after university
officials warned hundreds of protesters to leave.

University leaders accused the group of breaching school barricades and said
they were behaving in a "disorderly, disruptive and antagonising" manner.

Authorities at NYU also suggested protesters without links to the university had
turned up.

Dylan, an NYU student who declined to give his surname to the BBC, said NYU
administrators are "trying to flip the script and say that this was a disruptive
and antagonising protest.

"We were chanting. We were singing. We were drumming. If that represents
violence, I don't know on which basis NYU is reasoning."

Image source, Reuters

Image caption, Protesters near the campus of Yale University in New Haven,
Connecticut

The campus unrest has caused a dilemma for higher education officials as they
try to balance free speech rights with the need to maintain a safe and inclusive
space for learning.

Harvard University has closed public access to the centre of its campus until
Friday in apparent anticipation of similar student protests.

On the US West Coast, pro-Palestinian students set up "solidarity encampments"
on Monday at the University of California, Berkeley, and California State
Polytechnic University, Humboldt.

At Cal Poly, the campus has been closed until at least Wednesday due to the
"dangerous and volatile situation", school officials said, which included
students using tents and beds to blockade one of the buildings.

A similar encampment has been set up at the University of Michigan.

Activists have been calling for universities to "divest from genocide".

They accuse colleges of using students' tuition money to invest in companies
supporting Israel's war in Gaza.

Israel strongly denies any suggestion that it is committing genocide in the
Palestinian enclave, though the International Court of Justice has said the
accusation was "plausible".

The war began when Hamas gunmen carried out an unprecedented attack on southern
Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people - mostly civilians - and taking
253 others back to Gaza as hostages.

More than 34,180 people - most of them children and women - have been killed in
Gaza since then, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says.

With reporting from Rebecca Hartmann in New York



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