{"id":2224394,"date":"2024-04-18T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:39:31","slug":"columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University suspends and arrests protesters against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolumbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2224394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Columbia University suspended and arrested\u200c anti-Israel protesters, including Rep. Ilhan Omar&#8217;s daughter, for their involvement in a protest encampment. The New York City police arrested five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-schoolgirl-admits-lying-about-teacher-who-was-murdered-for-showing-class-muhammed-cartoons\/\" title=\"French Schoolgirl Admits Lying About Teacher Who Was Murdered For Showing Class Muhammed Cartoons\">student protesters<\/a> during the demonstration. The \u2063protesters demanded divestment from Israel, leading to confrontations with the authorities. Columbia Students\u2063 for Justice in Palestine organized the encampment and faced consequences\u2062 for their actions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Columbia Suspends, Arrests Anti-Israel Student Protesters\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/hundreds-of-conservative-job-seekers-personal-information-exposed-by-demints-conservative-partnership-institute-which-left-resumes-uploaded-to-job-bank-unprotected\" data-post-url id=\"print-1881204\">\n<div>\n<h2>&#8216;Squad&#8217; member Ilhan Omar&#8217;s daughter suspended by university<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(@WOLPalestine\/Twitter)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Columbia University on Thursday arrested and suspended anti-Israel students, one of them the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), in connection to a protest encampment on the university&#8217;s lawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>New York City police on Thursday morning arrested five student protesters demonstrating as part of the &#8220;Gaza Solidarity Encampment,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1780959286593565030\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span>  to videos posted on X. The encampment started at around 5 a.m. Wednesday, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/17\/us-news\/columbia-student-set-up-nearly-60-tents-to-protest-gaza-war\/\"><span>with<\/span><\/a><span>  hundreds of Columbia students demanding the university divest from Israel. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-u-s-preparing-additional-actions-over-myanmar-military-coup\/\" title=\"White House: U.S. preparing \u2018additional actions\u2019 over Myanmar military coup\">protesters set<\/a> up tents on a campus lawn and shouted anti-Israel slogans such as &#8220;Israel bombs, Columbia pays,&#8221; &#8220;free, free Palestine,&#8221; and &#8220;death to the Zionist state.&#8221; Video taken Thursday afternoon <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BTnewsroom\/status\/1781013666340483198\">showed<\/a> police arresting more demonstrators on the campus lawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that organized the encampment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C56HLoNuHtx\/?igsh=a2NxZWI4cWxheWk5\">said<\/a> Thursday in a video post on Instagram that &#8220;a Columbia SJP organizer has been suspended and evicted alongside 2 other Barnard students for the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.&#8221; Barnard College is a sister school and an official college of Columbia<\/span><span>.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Columbia president Minouche Shafik issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/news\/statement-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik-4-18\">statement<\/a> Thursday saying she &#8220;authorized the New York Police Department to begin clearing the encampment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The individuals who established the encampment violated a long list of rules and policies,&#8221; Shafik said. &#8220;We updated our protest policy to allow demonstrations on very short notice and in prime locations in the middle of campus while still allowing students to get to class, and labs and libraries to operate. The current encampment violates all of the new policies, severely disrupts campus life, and creates a harassing and intimidating environment for many of our students.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Omar&#8217;s daughter, Barnard student Isra Hirsi, said on Thursday she had been suspended over her involvement in anti-Israel protests on campus. &#8220;I just received notice that I am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide,&#8221; Hirsi <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/israhirsi\/status\/1780980484203327780\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>  on X. Omar is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-repeats-itself-democrats-are-using-tactics-of-the-marxists-of-1917-in-russia-to-steal-2020-election\/\" title=\"History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election\">progressive group<\/a> of House Democrats known as the &#8220;Squad,&#8221; and she has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/congress-boots-anti-semitic-democrat-ilhan-omar-from-foreign-affairs-committee\/\">faced<\/a> censure from her colleagues for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thursday\u2019s wave of arrests and suspensions came after Columbia earlier this month <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-student-suspended-over-resistance-101-event-refuses-to-leave-campus-calls-for-intifada\/\"><span>suspended<\/span><\/a><span>  four students for participating in an unsanctioned campus event featuring Khaled Barakat, a Palestinian activist who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/07\/us-news\/columbia-suspends-students-for-resistance-101-where-guest-speaker-had-alleged-ties-to-terror-group-reports\/\">referred<\/a> to Hamas terrorists as &#8220;friends and brothers&#8221; and is allegedly a member of the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University suspends and arrests anti-Israel protesters, including Representative Ilhan Omar&#8217;s daughter. The students were involved in a protest encampment on the university&#8217;s lawn. 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