Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia

(22 Apr 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 22 April 2024
1. Close of tents are erected at the Pro-Palestine protest encampment, with a sign says "Gaza Solidarity encampment'
2. Close to wide of an encampment of tents
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Khalil, lead negotiator, Columbia University Apartheid Divest:
"The university led us to lead us through the situation, unfortunately, through bringing the police here. That was the last thing that the students wanted. That the faculty wanted that was very evident today. And the faculty walkout support those students who were and just suspended were also arrested by NYPD. Now, the climate on campus has changed. A lot of students before, they were scared of the university intimidation tactics because the university has used and has unleashed a lot of scary tactics."
4. Various of faculty gathering to protest free from arrest at the Columbia University campus
5. Various of tents erected at the Pro-Palestine protest encampment
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Khalil, lead negotiator, Columbia University Apartheid Divest:
"If you noticed the first day when the students were in at the lawn of this university before the police came and arrested them. Today, as we can see, there's much more than that."
7. Various of tents erected at the Pro-Palestine protest encampment
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Khalil, lead negotiator, Columbia University Apartheid Divest:
"It's time for us to to show that yes, we we we want to
be visible. The university should do something about what we're asking about the genocide that's happening. That's happening in Gaza. They should be they should stop investing in this genocide that our people are now suffering from."
9. Pan left, tents erected at the Pro-Palestine protest encampment
STORYLINE:
Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at Yale and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to diffuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas.

The various actions followed the arrest last week of more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia's green, as schools struggle with where to draw the line between allowing free expression while maintaining a safe and inclusive campus.

In addition to the demonstrations at the Ivy League schools, pro-Palestinian encampments have sprouted up on other campuses, including the University of Michigan, New York University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The protests have pitted students against one another, with pro-Palestinian students demanding that their schools condemn Israel's assault on Gaza and divest from companies that sell weapons to Israel. Some Jewish students, meanwhile, say much of the criticism of Israel has veered into antisemitism and made them feel unsafe, and point out that Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the group's Oct. 7 invasion.

Tensions remained high Monday at Columbia in New York City, where the campus gates were locked to anyone without a school ID and where protests broke out both on campus and outside.

AP Video by John Minchillo

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