Students protesting in favor of Palestine at Columbia University have occupied the 1907 academic building, Hamilton Hall, located in the Morningside Heights of the Manhattan campus, and the university is threatening to expel them. New York's Columbia University has for two weeks been at the center of a movement of students and activists in favor of Palestine. “We regret that the protesters chose the path of escalation with their actions (…). Students who occupied the building face the risk of expulsion,” Columbia spokesman Ben Chang said in a statement. “We said clearly yesterday that the functioning of the university cannot be permanently disrupted by protesters breaking the rules. Continuing this (course of action) will certainly have consequences,” Chang stressed in his statement, accusing the squatters of “vandalizing, breaking doors and windows, and blocking entrances” to the building. The multi-day negotiations The university began punishing protesters, supporters of Palestine in the war with Israel, who refused to […]
Source: News Beast
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