Anti-Israel agitators at Columbia issue defiant ultimatum, end ‘negotiations’ with school

An anti-Israel student group down a fiery protestation connected nan field of Columbia University successful New York City says it walked distant from talks pinch schoolhouse leaders until administrators promise not to person them arrested aliases forcefully removed from their encampment connected nan Ivy League institution's West Lawn.

"Since bully religion negotiations are intolerable if 1 broadside threatens to usage unit to extract concessions, nan student negotiating squad has near nan array and refuses to return until location is simply a written committedness that nan management will not beryllium unleashing nan NYPD aliases National Guard connected its students," nan school’s section of Students for Justice successful Palestine (SJP), an anti-Israel organization, announced successful a connection astir 1 a.m. Wednesday. 

The SJP and aligned groups besides accused Israel of opening a "genocidal assault" successful Gaza, referring to its subject consequence to a deadly Hamas violent penetration connected Oct. 7, 2023 that killed much than 1,200 Israelis and saw much than 200 kidnapped and held hostage.

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Pro-Palestinian supporters rally extracurricular Columbia University connected April 23, 2024 successful New York City. In consequence to caller field unrest and anxieties regarding Jewish student safety, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik announced a displacement to online learning for Monday. She further urged module and unit to prioritize distant work. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

Critics of nan protestation group, including Jewish students and faculty, antagonistic that nan demonstrations are disrupting learning and creating an unsafe, antisemitic environment astatine nan $65,000-a-year university.

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft moreover publically condemned schoolhouse leaders successful a connection from his philanthropic statement announcing he would beryllium withdrawing support for his alma mater complete nan ongoing atmosphere.

Anti-Israel agitators conception an encampment connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Monday, April 22, 2024.  The assemblage announced that each classes would beryllium held virtually coming successful consequence to nan ongoing demonstrations connected campus. (Peter Gerber)

The SJP’s refusal to break campy comes aft constabulary cleared retired shelter cities group up by like-minded agitators astatine different awesome universities, including NYU connected nan different broadside of municipality and Yale successful Connecticut.

After NYU leaders asked for nan NYPD to region a group that had group up tents extracurricular nan university’s Stern School of Business Monday, crews arrived to build a impermanent plywood wall astir nan perimeter — pinch alloy doors and pinch constabulary opinionated guard.

A obstruction is constructed extracurricular of New York University’s Stern School of Business successful New York City connected Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The wall comes 1 time aft complete 100 individuals were arrested astatine a protestation extracurricular of nan building. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

About 150 protesters moved a artifact distant to Washington Square Park, wherever they chanted antisemitic and anti-police slogans for hours.

Earlier successful nan day, Yale University constabulary kicked a akin group retired of nan school’s Beinecke Plaza.

Demonstrators alternatively were fixed support to stitchery successful a nationalist intersection, wherever immoderate were seen pounding connected Tommy Bahama formation chairs arsenic galore others sat pinch laptops until nan group voluntarily dispersed successful clip to clear nan way for unreserved hr commuters.

Protesters artifact an intersection conscionable extracurricular of Yale University successful New Haven, Connecticut connected Monday, April 22, 2024. The protests are continuing aft a week of demonstrations calling connected nan assemblage to divest from subject weapons manufacturers. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital )

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Neither group alleged constabulary had utilized excessive unit aft nan clearings, moreover arsenic nan NYU protesters were accused of hurling objects astatine police.

Columbia leaders had been resistant to nan thought of allowing cops connected campus, however, and alternatively reverted to COVID-era remote learning arsenic Jewish students voiced concerns for their safety.

As Columbia administrators and representatives for nan extremist students grounded to travel to position connected campus, different group of demonstrators gathered adjacent nan location of Sen. Chuck Schumer successful Brooklyn.

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The New York Democrat, who is Jewish, is besides nan Senate mostly leader. Agitators location condemned his support for Israel and request he telephone for an extremity to nan U.S. providing weapons to Israel for its ongoing conflict against Hamas successful nan Gaza Strip.

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NYPD officers apprehension anti-Israel protestors arsenic they artifact nan roadways extracurricular Senator Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn location successful New York City connected Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

The NYPD arrested dozens of those protesters aft they sat successful nan mediate of a awesome intersection and refused to move. Onlookers who obeyed constabulary commands to fto cars walk shouted arsenic their compatriots were led retired successful groups of 2 to 4 astatine a clip pinch their wrists zip-tied down their backs. The arrestees were later placed connected jailhouse buses.

Police did not instantly supply a summary of nan number arrests and charges.

Police successful tactical cogwheel had besides staged adjacent nan Columbia field Wednesday greeting —  but they did not region immoderate agitators aft nan schoolhouse announced it would widen nan deadline for them to time off by different 48 hours.

Despite nan SJP’s fiery announcement, nan schoolhouse said negotiations had progressive a "constructive dialogue."

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In a connection posted to its website, nan assemblage said nan demonstrators had agreed to downsize their encampment connected schoolhouse grounds, region non-student agitators and to constabulary themselves against "discriminatory aliases harassing language."