“The campus is extremely polarized” at New York’s Columbia University, the war of nerves between pro and anti-Israel continues

Special correspondent in New York

The students walk quickly towards buildings with large facades, walk on closely mowed lawns or revise their lessons under the shade of the lime trees. Six months later The storm destroyed an anti-Palestinian protest camp with the New York police, a form of practice has returned to the university Colombia. But despite its calmness, this tense period has left its mark.

Criticized from all sides for the way she handled the upheaval, theadministration is still on the teeth. Access to the campus, whose tree-lined avenues typically attract neighborhood residents, is limited to magnetic card holders. Security guards in dark blue uniforms are ubiquitous. « Our university, which was once open to the world, has become a fortress »mourns Zareen Brown, a political science student.

Summer vacation, if it eased the pressure…