{"id":2237157,"date":"2024-05-04T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/many-outside-agitators-new-york-city-mayor-cited-at-columbia-are-not-professional-protesters\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T11:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:49:28","slug":"many-outside-agitators-new-york-city-mayor-cited-at-columbia-are-not-professional-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/many-outside-agitators-new-york-city-mayor-cited-at-columbia-are-not-professional-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Several non-local troublemakers mentioned by the mayor of New York City at Columbia University are not experienced protestors"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fmany-outside-agitators-new-york-city-mayor-cited-at-columbia-are-not-professional-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=2237157&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>New\u2063 York City Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; accusations of external instigators among pro-Palestinian campus \u200cprotesters have been found to be exaggerated. Police\u2064 records and interviews by the New York Times revealed that only\u2063 nine out of many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-portland-mayor-done-with-anarchist-mob-begs-public-to-help-unmask-rioters\/\" title=\"Democrat Portland Mayor \u2018Done\u2019 With \u2018Anarchist Mob,\u2019 Begs Public To Help \u2018Unmask\u2019 Rioters\">protesters arrested<\/a> at Columbia University had no campus ties. The Mayor&#8217;s office stated that \u200b29% \u200dof \u2063arrestees were \u2064unaffiliated with Columbia. New York City Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; \u2062claims of external instigators among pro-Palestinian campus protestors were overblown. Investigations \u200bby the New York Times showed that\u2064 just nine \u200cout of numerous protesters arrested at Columbia University had no campus connections. The Mayor&#8217;s office reported that\u2064 29% of those arrested had no affiliation with Columbia.  <\/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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York<\/a> City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/eric-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Eric Adams<\/a>\u2018s allegations that several pro-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/palestinian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Palestinian<\/a> campus protesters were outside agitators have proven to be not as numerous as claimed. <\/p>\n<p>A review of police records and interviews from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/04\/nyregion\/columbia-protests-arrest-agitators-israel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>  showed that just nine people out of the dozens of protesters arrested at Columbia University had no ties to the campus and had protested at other universities. <\/p>\n<p>Columbia enlisted the NYPD this week to clear out students who had overtaken and occupied Hamilton Hall. More than 100 people were arrested as NYPD cleared out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>protesters<\/a>, with many of those arrested having no previous histories of protesting at other colleges.<\/p>\n<p>They simply arrived at the university in solidarity with those demonstrating on campus. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sort of had to laugh because I guess you could think of me as an outside agitator,\u201d Matthew Cavalletto, a 52-year-old computer programmer who lives close to the campus, told the <em>New York Times<\/em>. \u201cNot that far outside, like six blocks away, but, you know, almost outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s office claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/351-24\/mayor-adams-nypd-commissioner-caban-provide-additional-details-highlighting-nearly-50-percent-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>29%<\/a> of those arrested were unaffiliated with Columbia, while 60%\u00a0of protesters at the City College of New York were unaffiliated with the school.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Demonstrators hold their ground near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, as New York City police officers move to clear the area after a campus building was taken over by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-closing-argument-no-evidence-rittenhouse-a-white-supremacist-looking-for-trouble\/\" title=\"Defense Closing Argument: No Evidence Rittenhouse a 'White Supremacist Looking for Trouble'\">protesters earlier<\/a> in the day. (AP Photo\/Craig Ruttle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe world is watching New York City, and our message to them has been clear: We will not be a city of lawlessness, and we will not allow our youth to be influenced by those who have no goal other than spreading hate and wreaking havoc on our city,\u201d said<strong> <\/strong>Adams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israel<\/a> protests began to escalate, it became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-special-agent-finds-17514-georgia-voters-with-out-of-state-forwarded-mail-addresses\/\" title=\"Former FBI Special Agent Finds 17,514 Georgia Voters with Out-of-State Forwarded Mail Addresses\">abundantly clear<\/a> that individuals unaffiliated with these schools had entered these different campuses and, in some cases, were even training students in unlawful protest tactics, many which we witnessed escalating into violent conduct,\u201d Adams continued.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor specifically pointed out Nahla Al-Arian, the wife of Sami Al-Arian, a prominent Palestinian activist, as one of the outside agitators. <\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was charged with supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in the 1980s and 1990s but was not convicted of the charges. He took a plea deal to get out of jail, and in 2015, he was deported to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/columbia-protests-eric-adams-outsiders-5319fdf36599295a3840d77c69458b57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Associated Press<\/a><\/em>, Nahal Al-Arian said Adams misrepresented her position during the protests and was not at Columbia this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole thing is a distraction because they are very scared that the young Americans are aware for the first time of what\u2019s going on in Palestine,\u201d Al-Arian told the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. \u201cThey are the ones who influenced me. They are the ones who gave me hope that at last the Palestinian people can get some justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Columbia protesters who were arrested also disagreed with Adams\u2019s claims of outside agitators. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make sure it\u2019s very clear there were not \u2018external agitators,\u2019 as far as I can tell, who were inside the building,\u201d Val Ly, a 30-year-old graduate student in Columbia\u2019s architecture program, told the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Ly was among the more than two-thirds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-blasts-biden-for-opening-businesses-to-iran-while-supporting-boycott-of-georgia\/\" title=\"Haley Blasts Biden For Opening Businesses To Iran While Supporting Boycott of Georgia\">people demonstrating<\/a> at Columbia who had some form of connection to the institution. <\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 people have been arrested at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>college<\/a> campus protests across the nation, according to figures from the <em>Associated Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; claims of numerous external instigators among pro-Palestinian campus protestors have been debunked. 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