Students occupy iconic Columbia University building in protests against the war in Gaza

Dozens of students from Columbia Universityin New York, this Tuesday occupied Hamilton Hall, one of the most important buildings in the educational complex, just hours after the center’s management began to apply suspensions to students involved in the protests.

“Dozens of students from Columbia University to occupy Hamilton Hall“, site of the 1968 occupation”, stated the organization Columbia Students for Justice in its report X, in reference to the student revolts that occurred that year and in which the emblematic building was also occupied.

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According to local media reports, Many of the students who were camped in the West Lawn area to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza spontaneously headed to Hamilton Hall to occupy it.

The movement occurred this morning, a few hours after the University management announced that began issuing suspensions to students involved in Palestine relief camp present on campus for two weeks, which the think tank says violates its policies.

O Columbia University had given a deadline of two o’clock on Monday afternoon, the time for New Yorkto dismantle the camp under threat of suspending them until next year, but they decided to keep it standing.

Some aerial footage from Freedom News TV showed several dozen people gathered on the stairs of the building. Others could also be seen inside the building and a Palestinian flag hanging in one of the windowsassured CNN.

The Columbia protests join those that hundreds of students from dozens of other universities in the United States have been carrying out for days. to protest against war in Gaza.

To the manifestations They have in common the rejection of US policy towards Israel and the request that educational centers break relations with the Government and the Israeli private sector.

Source: Elcomercio

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