The House speaker was met with an angry crowd in New York City on Wednesday.
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was greeted with boos during a visit to the New York City campus of Columbia University as a controversial pro-Palestinian protest continued on Wednesday.Over 100 Columbia students taking part in the week-long protest have been arrested by riot police and suspended by the university, while repeated reports of antisemitic incidents have sparked condemnation from school officials, lawmakers and student protesters who say outside groups are responsible.
Protesters are demanding that the university divest from Israel-affiliated companies that they say 'profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine.'While 1,200 people were killed in the initial Hamas attack, over 34,000 Palestinians have since been killed during the Israeli assault on Gaza, according to the Associated Press.
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