{"id":2233897,"date":"2024-04-30T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-dems-endorses-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:13:27","slug":"college-dems-endorses-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-dems-endorses-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"College Democrats Support &#8216;Peaceful Protests&#8217; Amid Campus Damage by Demonstrators"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fcollege-dems-endorses-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus%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=2233897&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>College Democrats of America supported &#8220;protests for peace&#8221; on U.S. college campuses amid ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University. The group praised students&#8217; activism for Palestinian rights while criticizing university\u200b actions against protesters. This endorsement follows a demonstration where anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University caused\u2064 disruption.\u200c The College Democrats&#8217; statement emphasized solidarity with peaceful protests nationwide.  <\/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<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tA demonstrator breaks the windows of the front door of the building in order to secure a chain around it to prevent authorities from entering as demonstrators from the pro-Palestinian encampment barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-introduces-free-college-bill-heres-who-qualifies-and-how-much-it-will-cost\/\" title=\"Bernie Sanders Introduces \u2018Free College\u2019 Bill. Here\u2019s Who Qualifies And How Much It Will Cost\">academic building<\/a> at Colombia University (Alex Kent\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>College Democrats of America, the Democratic Party\u2019s official student organization, on Tuesday endorsed the &#8220;protests for peace&#8221; across U.S. college campuses amid violent, weeks-long anti-Israel demonstrations that have shut down Columbia University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This past week, we witnessed heroic actions on the part of students around the country to protest and sit in for an end to the war in Palestine and the release of the hostages,&#8221; College Democrats <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6YoY6aoIXi\/?img_index=1\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  in a Tuesday statement, expressing &#8220;solidarity with protests for peace&#8221; that have sprung up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-backed-student-group-weaponizes-wokeness-to-attack-regime-critics\/\" title=\"China-Backed Student Group Weaponizes Wokeness To Attack Regime Critics\">college campuses nationwide<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We commend the bravery of students across the country who have been willing to endure arrests, suspensions, and threats of expulsion to stand up for the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people,&#8221; the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Democratic student organization also slammed university administrators\u2019 response to the protests as &#8220;deserv[ing] the strongest condemnation&#8221; because &#8220;arresting, suspending, and evicting students without any due process is not only legally dubious but morally reprehensible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The College Democrats\u2019 statement came just hours after anti-Israel protesters at Columbia <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-students-storm-university-building-and-hoist-banner-calling-for-intifada\/\"><span>smashed<\/span><\/a><span>  the glass doors of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning\/\" title=\"Report: Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning\">campus building<\/a> and barricaded the entrance while chanting and waving flags that featured anti-Semitic slogans such as &#8220;Long live the intifada.&#8221; Columbia president Minouche Shafik in response to the takeover said she is shutting down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/truck-donning-names-pictures-of-hamas-sympathizing-students-drives-around-harvard-campus\/\" title=\"Truck showcasing Hamas-sympathizing students' names and photos circulates Harvard.\">campus indefinitely<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, the Ivy League university <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/columbia-moves-all-classes-online-amid-campus-chaos\/\"><span>moved<\/span><\/a><span>  all of its classes online for the rest of the spring semester due to safety concerns after the anti-Israel demonstrations continued despite the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/nyregion\/arrested-columbia-students-suspended.html\"><span>arrests and suspensions<\/span><\/a><span>  of more than 100 students. <\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>The protests at Columbia, which first began on April 17 when hundreds of students established an encampment on a campus lawn to demand the university divest from Israel, have since <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/anti-israel-protests-sweep-across-elite-universities-passover\"><span>inspired<\/span><\/a><span>  similar protests at other universities, including New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, Yale University, and the University of Texas, Austin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reps. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/aoc-celebrates-anti-israel-campus-protests-during-event-with-biden\/\"><span>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/span><\/a><span>  (D., N.Y.) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/ilhan-omar-and-daughter-show-face-at-columbia-protest\/\"><span>Ilhan Omar<\/span><\/a><span>  (D., Minn.), both members of the progressive group of House Democrats known as the &#8220;Squad,&#8221; also praised the anti-Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fighting-abortion-now-requires-fighting-americans-increasing-hatred-of-children\/\" title=\"Fighting Abortion Now Requires Fighting Americans\u2019 Increasing Hatred Of Children\">campus protests<\/a> across the country. Omar\u2019s daughter, Isra Hirsi, was arrested and suspended from Columbia&#8217;s Barnard College for her involvement in the campus protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University, a demonstrator breaks building windows to barricade the entrance against authorities. Inside Hamilton Hall, activists from the encampment fortify themselves. College Democrats of America, the official Democratic Party student group, is linked to the event.  Photo Credit: Alex Kent\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2233898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/columbia-university-issues-deadline-for-gaza-encampment-to-vacate-camp-1-scaled-e1714509536353.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/columbia-university-issues-deadline-for-gaza-encampment-to-vacate-camp-1-scaled-e1714509536353.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}