Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home - classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air.
Everywhere there is gloom, and uncertainty about what happens next at Columbia University.
Students told the BBC that the university’s decision to call in police to clear a Gaza protest late on Tuesday, leading to a raid on the occupied Hamilton Hall and hundreds of arrests, has left the college community shattered.
The university president, Nemat Shafik, said that it was with great regret that she ordered the police raid against students and others she said had infiltrated the protest. It would “take time to heal”, she added in a message in the operation’s aftermath.
For students of this prestigious school in Manhattan, New York, how long is unclear.
Those “peaceful protestors” were smashing windows and camping in tents on the lawn of the Universities. And that’s not even the worst part, where they are actively supporting Hamas. Sounds like they’re just angry about facing consequences, to me.
Joined 2 days ago. Yep.
get fucking bent you propagandist piece of shit
Camping sounds pretty peaceful.
They RUINED the lawn! Years of tending down the drain!
Actively supporting Hamas? Explain.
OH LOOK A
ONETWO DAY OLD ACCOUNTThat has a dog whistle norse name.
You’ve just admitted that you’re a racist. Nice.
Why does that matter, exactly? New accounts aren’t allowed to have an opinion? Or state facts?
You claim “facts” yet have no evidence. Provide evidence.
Could you respond to the people asking for facts instead of responding to these comments, then? Someone was asking in what ways the protesters are pro-Hamas, you could start there.
Israel has left Palestine alone since 2005. They allowed Palestine to use their power and water, because Hamas (who Palestinians overwhelmingly support AND voted in) refused to build those resources in Gaza. Instead they chose to build tunnels for terror. Palestinians cheered when Israeli’s were murdered, and the protesters literally changed “from the Mountains to the sea” which leaves no room for the legal state of Israel.
If you’re pro Palestine you are pro Hamas. They happily started a fight, and they play victim when they lose, rounding up the simple minded as supporters.
Lmao, I stopped reading after “Israel has left Palestine alone since 2005”
“Israel has left Palestine alone since 2005.” ummm, that’s quite the fiction/delusion: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/
“If you’re pro Palestine you are pro Hamas.” aka, let us proceed with our blood thirst, with the mass slaughter, and indiscriminate killing of women and children. Because Palestinians are less than human and we are the chosen.
Oh, the position is that because some Palestinians cheered, it is okay genocide all of them and starve their children.
There it is. Fuck you to hell.
Found the nazi
Found the person who can’t make an independent coherent argument for their case, so they resort to overused name-calling.
Says the guy with a norse name two day old account. Whatever you Nazi.
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Found the person who can’t make an independent coherent argument for their case, so they resort to overused name-calling.
You’re not helping your case that you’re not a Nazi with that one, you know.
I don’t debate Nazi’s, you can fuck off and that’s all you get.
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You’re not defending Jews, you’re defending Israel. More specifically, you’re defending Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. And you’re using ableist slurs to do it, so nice job.
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Ok nazi
The guy who lied about smashing windows is mad about name-calling lol… Name calling is the kindest thing you could ask for, national zionist
I mean they did literally break windows so they could get into Hamilton Hall
So the solution was cops who broke a ton of windows and doors then beat a bunch of college students all with your tax money?
Is that what I said? If I reiterate my exact words would that be enough for you or are you gonna read into that too?
You were implying it and are now acting dumb and innocent.
The person I replied to said that someone “lied about smashing windows.” I replied saying that that part was actually true. You don’t argue about police brutality by lying and denying what actually happened, that’s how you get people reading to dismiss your points.
Sick genocide apologia bro
Oh no they camped in tents outside! How awful!
Also no they specifically said they were against genocide and calling for a ceasefire. Hamad didn’t come into it til a bunch of genocidal psychotic Zionists started saying it was anti semitism because apparently everything anyone does is anti Semitic now
More broken windows. More. More.