{"id":2233922,"date":"2024-04-30T17:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-dems-endorse-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:42:52","slug":"college-dems-endorse-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-dems-endorse-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"College Democrats support &#8216;Peaceful Protests&#8217; as Protesters Cause Damage at Columbia University"},"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\">24<\/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-endorse-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=2233922&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 \u200dDemocrats of America, \u200cthe official student wing of the Democratic Party, endorsed &#8220;protests \u200cfor peace&#8221; \u200bon <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> in support of ending the war \u2063in Palestine and releasing hostages. They \u2062praised student activists for their courage amid arrests and threats, criticizing university \u2062responses \u200dto protests. This follows anti-Israel\u200c demonstrations that\u2064 shut down Columbia \u200dUniversity.  <\/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 academic building 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-dems-endorses-protests-for-peace-as-demonstrators-trash-columbia-campus\/\" title=\"College Democrats Support 'Peaceful Protests' Amid Campus Damage by Demonstrators\">college campuses amid violent<\/a>, 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 college campuses nationwide.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-kraken-released-attorney-sidney-powell-files-104-page-bombshell-complaint-of-massive-fraud-in-georgia-election-update-michigan-too\/\" title=\"BREAKING: KRAKEN RELEASED! Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page BOMBSHELL COMPLAINT of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election - Update: Michigan too\">due process<\/a> 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 campus building 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 campus indefinitely.<\/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 campus protests 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>A protestor at Columbia University smashes windows to secure a chain and bar authorities. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators barricade in Hamilton Hall. 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