Following a mass rally in downtown New Haven, around 250 pro-Palestine protesters set up 40 tents on Cross Campus, where they moved after police cleared a previous encampment on Beinecke Plaza and arrested 44 students.
Hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman, a prominent Columbia University donor, is offering support for the Ivy League school’s embattled president even as he continues to blast students protesting against Israel.
The New York Police Department has a “large presence” around the Columbia University campus but is limited in its ability to conduct operations on campus because it is private property, law enforcement officials said Monday.
Heightened tensions around pro-Palestinian protests on the campus of Columbia University have led the school to go all-virtual on Monday. The protests are now in their sixth day.