The university’s clampdown on “disruptive” demonstrations leads to more than 100 arrests as US campus tensions intensify over the Israel-Hamas war.
| More than 100 people protesting the war in Gaza were cleared off Columbia University’s campus, arrested and charged with trespassing, a day after the university’s president testified before Congress as part of an investigation intoHaving been summoned by Columbia president Minouche Shafik in what she described as “an extraordinary step” to keep the campus safe, New York police in riot gear entered the encampment with zip ties on Thursday afternoon and systematically arrested protesters, who...
The encampment’s removal came a day after Ms Shafik and other Columbia leaders faced scrutiny from federal legislators about antisemitism on their campus, and as universities across thewith the need for safe campuses six months after the Israel-Gaza war began. Columbia’s leaders were summoned to testify on Wednesday before the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce as part of its investigation into campus antisemitism.
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