Again, since the resignation of Penn and Harvard presidents, anti-Semitism has been silenced on American college campuses, but even so, the pro-Palestinian protesters have not stopped their actions, but have intensified.
On April 17, local time, pro-Palestinian protesters rallied on the campus of Columbia University to express strong dissatisfaction with the university's handling of anti-Semitism.
However, instead of being permissive and vague like the former president of Harvard, Minush Shafiq, the president of Columbia University, went directly to the police and arrested them.
As a result, the protesters did not give in, and after being arrested, they made a comeback, forcing the president of Columbia University to directly stop offline classes and switch to online...
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Columbia students were arrested
It all started with the April 17 protest rally. The rally was sparked by a pledge by Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik, during a hearing in the House of Representatives, to crack down on unauthorized student protests linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I don't know if it's out of my heart, but after seeing the fate of the president of Penn and Harvard, I actually understand a little bit of the president of Columbia University to make such a promise.
The students, however, did not buy her account, and that same night, pro-Palestinian students gathered on Columbia's campus, shouting their slogans that they would not stop protesting unless the university stopped all related investments in Israel. They set up tents on the southern lawn of Columbia's campus, and the university immediately asked them to remove the tents and leave the area.
After dissuasion failed, the school directly approached the New York Police Department to intervene. On April 18 (last Thursday afternoon), local time, the New York Police Department entered the campus of Columbia University and arrested dozens of demonstrators who had set up about 50 tents. The officers, dressed in riot suits and carrying restraint belts, began arresting demonstrators before 1:30 p.m. It's hard to imagine that such a scene could appear on the campus of Columbia University.
Hundreds of students and others supporting the protesters on and off campus did not flinch in the face of police arrests, with senior students at Columbia University and pro-Palestinian organizers saying—
They can threaten us with the police, but in the end this will only prompt more mobilization
The New York Police Department (NYPD) said at a news conference Thursday that a total of 108 people were arrested and subpoenased for trespassing, including the daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. In addition, two others were summoned for obstructing the administration of the government.
Last Thursday's mass arrests did not deter protesters, who returned to the campus lawn area to continue their anti-Israel protests and said they would "stick to that line" until their demands were met. It was reported that a large number of police officers wearing riot gear were present. A Columbia spokesperson said: "All of these students will face disciplinary action. These sanctions may include suspension, warning, or expulsion.
Regarding this conflict, the president of Columbia University said-
We have also tried a number of ways to focus on their demands and offered to continue the dialogue if they are willing to dissolve.
Regrettably, all of these efforts to resolve the issue were rejected by the students involved.
It is with great regret that we have requested the assistance of the New York Police Department to evacuate these people. We understand that the first step in this process is that the NYPD will use its Long Range Acoustic Wave Device (LRAD) to notify participants in the camp that they must disperse and give them time to leave before taking further action.
Although the president's statement seemed "reasonable", the students' protests continued. After the incontiguance of force failed, the president of Columbia University finally took the next step - to stop offline classes!
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Columbia University discontinues in-person classes
At 1:14 a.m. local time on April 22, Columbia University President Minush Shafiq announced a full shift to online classes starting Monday to "defuse hostility and give all of us a chance to consider our next move." ”
She encouraged students who live off-campus and faculty and staff who can work remotely not to come to campus.
Meanwhile, on Monday, April 22 local time, hundreds of faculty and staff at Columbia University staged a mass strike to protest the president's letting police arrest students during a pro-Palestinian camp protest last week.
Columbia's president has recently faced a number of accusations for her "anti-Semitic" activities on campus, including the usual demand for her immediate resignation.
Republicans from the New York House of Representatives wrote a letter Monday calling on Columbia University President Minush Shafiq to resign as Columbia's leadership has lost control of the campus. Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, chairman of the House Education Committee, sent a letter to university leaders on Sunday warning them of the consequences if they don't curb campus protests.
Government officials are all gone, and of course billionaires are indispensable.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has said he will withdraw his support for Columbia. He graduated from Columbia University and completed his studies on a full academic scholarship, but he no longer recognizes Columbia.
It was through the full academic scholarship that Columbia University gave me that I was able to go to college and start my life, for which I am so grateful, and the school I loved so much—the one that welcomed me and provided me with so many opportunities—was no longer an institution that I recognized.
I am deeply saddened by the vicious hatred that continues to grow on campus and across the country. I no longer trust Columbia University to protect its students and faculty, and I am reluctant to support the university until corrective action is taken.
The "money ability" has been launched again~ But the threat of the government and billionaires has not stopped the "anti-Semitic turmoil" on campus, but has intensified.
While Columbia students protested, other schools were not idle.
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Protests sweep elite universities?
Students at Yale, MIT, the University of Michigan, and Emerson College have all set up their own camps to support those arrested.
Anti-Israel agitators at MIT set up a camp on the campus lawn. I have to say that the MIT principal has a strong background, and even if the students jump like this, she still hasn't stepped down. The president of Harvard and the president of the University of Pennsylvania, who attended the Capitol Hill meeting with her, have been out of office for a long time.
Tents near Emerson's Boston campus read signs reading "From the River to the Sea," phrases calling for the eradication of anti-Semitism in the Jewish state, as well as "no more funding for Israel's crimes," "drop all charges against student activists," and "neutrality" being complicit in the Palestinian flag.
Yale is not calm either. Protesters erected tents in Benecke Square on Friday and demonstrated over the weekend, calling on Yale to stop any investment in defense companies that do business with Israel.
About 45 protesters were arrested at Yale University Monday morning and charged with misdemeanors, a police spokesman for New Haven, Conn., said. At present, all of them have been released, but there will be a court session and so on. However, that didn't deter the protesters, and after their arrest at Yale University on Monday, a large crowd of demonstrators regathered and blocked a street near campus.
Harvard University, which has been in the whirlpool of public opinion for a long time, has not flinched. On the afternoon of April 19, about 200 Harvard students rallied in front of the library in solidarity with Columbia students arrested during pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
This time they did not flinch as they had signed the joint letter before, but shouted loudly:
We stand in solidarity with our brave classmates at Columbia. They are our moral exemplars. The price of solidarity is expensive, but we are willing to bear the brunt of it.
New York University has also become the latest protest site.
Unlike Columbia, which locked its doors during the protests, NYU does not have an enclosed campus space.
On the sidewalk near the NYU building, tents with signs of anarchy and signs trying to link Black Rock to "Israeli apartheid" were seen, with signs reading "Salute to Palestinian martyrs" and "We are all SJP."
At present, Brown University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Boston University, Ohio State University and other schools are joining the protest and solidarity with Columbia students. Arguably, American colleges and universities have never been so united! Most schools have had students arrested for participating in rallys, but they have not flinched.
In the meantime, what is the United States doing?
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What is the United States doing?
He's exercising his veto power and putting the double standard on the table.
It was thought that everything would be good through the painstaking adoption of the "Gaza Ceasefire" resolution, but at the time of the resolution, the U.S. representative to the United Nations made it clear that the United Nations resolutions were not binding (although we all know that this is the case, but it is really rarely said directly). And as the representative of the United States said, the binding force of the resolution cannot control Israel at all, and it will give everyone a big deal when it turns around.
On April 1, local time, Israel carried out an airstrike on the consular office building of the Iranian Embassy in Syria, killing seven Iranian military personnel, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, commanders of the "Quds Force" of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soon after, Iran began its own counterattack.
It was supposed to be a back and forth, and it was just after the fight. However, European and American countries have to pull the strings - "although Israel has beaten you, you should not fight back Iran." Such double standards have led to the current Middle East conflict becoming more and more serious.
Since the new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7 last year, far more children have lost their lives than in the last decade (including the Russia-Ukraine war)... This is, in fact, to a certain extent, "genocide in progress", so to speak.
Even a country like the United States, which absolutely supports Israel, is under tremendous pressure at home, and despite its power and wealth, justice will not be extinguished.
I don't want to judge the students in this event, but they let me see what students under the "elite education" should look like, and they can be regarded as when the little human stars shine~
However, it is still hoped that international students who are away from home should pay attention to safety and try not to participate in activities to avoid punishment. Of course, if you're ready...