Today's protest is organized by the group "Students for Justice in Palestine." The student-led organization released a statement saying it intends to have a peaceful protest. It runs from noon to 7 p.m. tonight.
Columbia University has seen student protesters camping out on the school’s campus since April 17. Pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for the Ivy League school to financially pull out from companies and institutions that “profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine,” according to an online statement from the group Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Following Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s congressional hearing about antisemitism on campus, the encampment drew a larger group of protesters.
Inaction from liberal universities has turned U.S. campuses into battlegrounds as Zionists war against pro-Palestinian students. Australia is beginning to see similar violence.
An emergency meeting was held by UNC-Chapel Hill leaders to discuss tense protests that unfolded on campus. The demonstrations are over the Israel-Hamas war.