{"id":2233452,"date":"2024-04-30T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-protesters-at-columbia-take-over-campus-building-barricade-themselves-inside\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:55:19","slug":"anti-israel-protesters-at-columbia-take-over-campus-building-barricade-themselves-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-protesters-at-columbia-take-over-campus-building-barricade-themselves-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters Occupy Columbia Campus Building, Create Barricade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fanti-israel-protesters-at-columbia-take-over-campus-building-barricade-themselves-inside%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=2233452&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>Anti-Israel student protesters seized Hamilton Hall at Columbia\u200c University, demanding the institution&#8217;s divestment\u200b from Israel during the conflict with Hamas. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-students-storm-university-building-and-hoist-banner-calling-for-intifada\/\" title=\"Columbia Students Rally at University Building, Display Banner Urging 'Intifada\">autonomous group<\/a>, named &#8220;Columbia University Apartheid Divest,&#8221; occupied the building for financial transparency and amnesty. \u200cThe \u200cprotests included forming a human chain to protect the occupiers, with\u200c one individual breaking a window. Columbia \u200cwarned students to avoid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-massive-explosion-in-downtown-nashville-on-christmas-morning-possible-car-bomb-video\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Massive Explosion in Downtown Nashville on Christmas Morning, Possible Car Bomb (VIDEO)\">area due<\/a> to the ongoing protests.  <\/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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-Israel student protesters barricaded themselves inside a Columbia University campus building on Tuesday morning, demanding that the university take action to divest from Israel amid its war with Hamas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protesters took over Hamilton Hall after the university began to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/04\/30\/nyregion\/columbia-protests-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspend<\/a> some students who have taken part in a weeks-long anti-Israel encampment on campus. According to the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group, Hamilton Hall was taken over by an \u201cautonomous group\u201d seeking \u201cdivestment, financial transparency, and amnesty.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAn autonomous group reclaimed Hind\u2019s Hall, previously known as \u2018Hamilton Hall,\u2019 in honor of Hind Rajab, a martyr murdered at the hands of the genocidal Israeli state at the age of six years old,\u201d the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColumbiaBDS\/status\/1785189196141113478\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cResistance is justified in the movement for liberation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Columbia University students form a human chain to protect the protestors who have occupied Hamilton Hall \u2013 which has now been renamed HIND\u2019S HALL. \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z41sdxwv20\">pic.twitter.com\/Z41sdxwv20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CU Apartheid Divest (@ColumbiaBDS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColumbiaBDS\/status\/1785171410115027281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photos of the occupation show protesters using tables and chairs to block doors while one person smashes a window with a hammer. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_730565\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-730565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Photo by Alex Kent\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are grateful for the brave students and community members who put themselves in harm\u2019s way to protest Columbia\u2019s complicity. Taking over a building is a small risk compared to the daily resistance of Palestinians in Gaza,\u201d CU Apartheid Divest said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Columbia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2024\/04\/30\/columbia-university-protests-palestine-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">texted<\/a> students, instructing them to avoid the Hamilton Hall area due to \u201cmajor protest activity,\u201d the Washington Post reported. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khymani James, the leader of CU Apartheid Divest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/columbia-student-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-reportedly-expelled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was banned<\/a> last week from Columbia\u2019s campus after The Daily Wire reported on comments he made saying that \u201cZionists don\u2019t deserve to live.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cZionists don\u2019t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don\u2019t deserve to live,\u201d he said earlier this year. \u201cThe same way we are very comfortable accepting Nazis don\u2019t deserve to live, fascists don\u2019t deserve to live, racists don\u2019t deserve to live, Zionists, they shouldn\u2019t live in this world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The occupation of Hamilton Hall is the latest step taken by anti-Israel protesters after weeks of camping out and demonstrations on campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714129450076000&#038;usg=AOvVaw11MUL_oXewNl-yGfGqnuu8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Columbia President Minouche Shafik <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/news\/statement-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik-4-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on Monday that the university had not been able to reach an agreement for the group to disband its camp. Shafik added that Columbia would not be divesting from Israel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTo that end, since Wednesday, a small group of academic leaders has been in constructive dialogue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-activists-at-catholic-university-protest-mlks-pro-life-trump-supporting-niece\/\" title=\"Student Activists At Catholic University Protest MLK\u2019s Pro-Life, Trump-Supporting Niece\">student organizers<\/a> to find a path that would result in the dismantling of the encampment and adherence to University policies going forward. Regretfully, we were not able to come to an agreement,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similar anti-Israel protests have cropped up around the country, including in states like California, Utah, Texas, and Virginia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Israel student protesters barricaded themselves in a Columbia University building, urging divestment from Israel during the conflict with Hamas. 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