Posted on 04/23/2024 7:56:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dozens have been arrested at NYU and Yale, and Columbia cancels in-person classes as discord over the war in Gaza grows among students across the country.
The president of Columbia University announced a midnight deadline for students and others to reach an agreement about dismantling an encampment on campus set up in protest.
The encampment was set up four days ago on the Manhattan campus’ West Lawn.
On Thursday, police made more than 100 arrests when they were called in about an encampment on the South Lawn, and for which Columbia was criticized.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik said in a letter to the community today that the demonstrators at the encampment at the West Lawn have been peaceful.
“However, the encampment raises serious safety concerns, disrupts campus life, and has created a tense and at times hostile environment for many members of our community. It is essential that we move forward with a plan to dismantle it,” Shafik wrote.
University officials and faculty have been in discussions with student groups about dismantling it, she said.
“I very much hope these discussions are successful. If they are not, we will have to consider alternative options for clearing the West Lawn and restoring calm to campus so that students can complete the term and graduate,” Shafik wrote in the letter.
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Just expel them and the rest will get in line.
Turn on the sprinklers. Flood the lawn until it’s a soggy mess uninhabitable for humans. In a few weeks the lawn will repair itself.
Enjoy the popcorn, I can’t wait for the Dnc.
Trump would still be blamed somehow.
Arrest, jail, deport.
Arrest all these little snots
Big deal, they arrest them and then let them go. The dims have made our Nation a fing joke...
Midnight is a great time to crack some terrorist skulls.
Go, NYPD! Get some!
Getting serious.
Some even went to confront Chuck Schumer at his house in NY.
Dems are not used to being dissed.
Pelosi was confronted by one, too.
But Leftists won't be affected.
I'm unapologetic about that insult.
The pro-Hamas protesters are in favor of these terrorists:
Times of Israel story:
Israeli women held hostage in the Gaza Strip are being subjected to regular sexual abuse, with their guards treating them like “dolls,” survivors of October 7 testified in the Knesset on Tuesday, adding to a growing body of evidence that Hamas weaponized sexual assault and is likely still violating victims in captivity.
“I saw it with my own eyes,” said former hostage Aviva Siegel, who was abducted from Kibbutrz Kfar Aza with her husband Keith on October 7 and released during a ceasefire in late November.
“I felt as if the girls in captivity were my daughters. The terrorists bring inappropriate clothes, clothes for dolls and turn the girls into their dolls. Dolls on a string with which you can do whatever you want, whenever you want,” she told a meeting of the newly established Knesset caucus on victims of sexual and gender violence in the war against Hamas.
BTTT
Nothing happened - they will be “negotiating” for 2 more days. Whimps
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