Anti-Israel demonstrators who have shut down Columbia University insist they are not pro-Hamas but blame the Jewish State for the Middle East conflict that exploded with the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside the main gate at Columbia University, in New York, early Friday, April 26, 2024. insist they are not pro-Hamas but blame the Jewish State for the Middle East conflict that exploded with the Oct.
7 terrorist attack.“What they’re advocating for in the encampment is the Liberation of Palestine. And I think a lot of that comes from whathas done to Palestine, and the genocide that they’re committing there,” said Ruby, a freshman who isn’t living at the encampment but expressed solidarity with the cause.“I think tying in Hamas sort of misrepresents it because I don’t think people in the encampment are saying that they support Hamas. They are saying that they support the Liberation of Palestine,” she said. As he strolled around the collection of tents, which were strewn with Palestinian flags and protest signs, she said Palestinians have the right to resist an occupier but that Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on “But if we’re going to call that terrorism, which frankly I think we should, then how can we not call the Israeli war crimes that have happened for decades and decades, how can we not call that terrorism as well,” said Mr. Benjamin.protesters defend their actions saying that many Jewish students are part of their movement and were recently arrested by the New York Police Department when officers attempted to dismantle their encampment.itself sic the NYPD on Jewish students. So this is a safety concern that concerns us all,” said one of the student protesters.• Defund Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the NYPD. • Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza and denouncing the “ongoing genocidal campaign” byencampment has been set up for more than a week, with the school giving the demonstrators several deadlines to decamp but then extending the deadline.‘s president, Minouche Shafik, but the Columbia University Board of Trustees on Thursday threw its support behind her praising her handling of the situation. The board backed up Ms. Shafik hours after House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, called for her resignation after visiting Jewish students on campus who described antisemitic threats and harassment from the protesters.protest encampments have now spread to more than 40 college campuses in the U.S. and Canada, including Harvard, Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, George Washington, Northwestern and the University of California, Los Angeles.She said she struggles to understand the protesters’ viewpoints, though she gets taunts or what she calls “shots” from demonstrators because she is Jewish. “I believe that some of my friends are here in good faith, but a lot have succumbed to certain narratives that ultimately harm the larger geopolitical conflict and also the tension on campus,” she said.
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