On April 24, pro-Palestinian activists set up a tent city on the campus lawn of Columbia University in New York.
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REPORT – After Harvard, Penn and Stanford, Columbia University has been at the center of a protest movement for more than a week.
Special Envoy to Colombia (New York)
The keffiyeh is fashionable on campus. Female students wear it as a shawl, male students tie it around their neck. Those who forgot theirs can buy them from a Palestinian flag peddler located on Broadway, at the entrance to Columbia University. There are Palestinian flags even more numerous on campus. For the past week, a tent city, the Gaza Solidarity Camp, has been set up on the South Lawn.
The university management did intervention last Thursday the police from New York to send them away, and about a hundred people were arrested. But this intervention only made the situation worse. The tent city reformed immediately, and the demonstrators denounced the police repression and the difficulty of the university. Seven months after the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to roil American campuses. Taken…
2024-04-24 19:17:14
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