The Columbia campus was cleared of tents and occupiers last night, with as many as 300 people arrested between Columbia and CUNY where police also cleared the campus. Activists at Columbia posted this sad image of the empty campus this morning. The caption with this reads: as of this morning, all our tents have been […]
Portland State University closed its campus for the second day in a row Wednesday as anti-Israel protesters occupied the college’s main library. The university announced the closure Tuesday in light of an “ongoing incident” at Millar Library, less than 24 hours after protesters broke into the building and barricaded themselves. “I’ve heard your demands and […]
Protesters have been camped out around the Portland State University library for several days. Over the weekend the situation escalated as the protesters (not all of whom are students) began blocking off the entrance to the library. By Monday, school administrators asked the protesters to leave. After a pro-Palestinian protest sprouted at Portland State University […]
Columbia University threatened Tuesday to expel the students who have taken over an academic building, raising the stakes on the spiraling anti-Israel protests that have brought the Ivy League campus to a standstill. The announcement came shortly after Columbia shutdown its main Morningside campus to everyone but students living in the dorms and essential personnel […]
A few hours after Columbia students broke into, entered, and vandalized buildings on multiple college campuses including Columbia University, the College Democrats of America sent out a press release endorsing the protests. They characterized them as “peaceful” and “heroic.” Heroic. Protests where the leaders are calling for the murder of all “Zionists.” Protests where “Glory […]
Columbia University locked down its main Morningside campus after student activists took over an academic building overnight, struggling to restore order as virulent anti-Israel protests spiral out of control. In a Tuesday update, the university said that “access to the Morningside campus has been limited to students residing in residential buildings on campus” as well […]
There is plenty of blame to go around for the anti-Semitic insanity that we’ve seen on America’s college campuses since last October. It has been one long sobering and anger-inducing validation of the longtime concerns that conservatives have had about the ideological pollution in Academia: Kudos to Academia for […]
A pro-Hamas demonstration popped up in Jackson Square in New Orleans on Sunday. It didn’t last long. About three dozen protesters rallied at the historic spot in the French Quarter and set up an encampment of 10 green tents on the lawn around the statue of Andrew Jackson. Green tents, eh? It sounds like the […]
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik released a statement this morning which said negotiations with student protesters, which have been ongoing since last week, have failed to reach an agreement. I know that many of our Jewish students, and other students as well, have found the atmosphere intolerable in recent weeks. Many have left campus, and […]
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik said she has rejected demands by protesters to divest from Israel, urging them to “voluntarily disperse” as negotiations to dismantle the vast pro-Gaza encampment reached an impasse. Ms. Shafik said Monday that “the University will not divest from Israel,” ruling out the primary demand being made by protesters in charge […]
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