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Columbia University officials continue to discuss pinch anti-Israel demonstrators who person group up an encampment successful nan bosom of field contempt crossing a deadline for nan protesters to do so. The assemblage gave an update connected nan "ongoing discussions" precocious Thursday evening.
On Tuesday, nan assemblage notified nan agitators of a midnight deadline to scope an statement to clear retired of nan encampment, battalion up their tents and spell home. Hours later, nan assemblage said it would springiness nan students an further 48 hours for negotiations. That deadline, too, came and went, but nan assemblage said location had been "progress" successful nan talks.
"We person our demands; they person theirs," Columbia said successful an update which was posted conscionable aft 11 p.m. connected Thursday.
In nan update, nan assemblage said it would not induce nan NYPD to nan field to clear nan protest.
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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. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
"The talks person shown advancement and are continuing arsenic planned," nan assemblage said. "A general process is underway and continues."
Columbia continued, "For respective days, a mini group of faculty, administrators, and assemblage senators person been successful speech pinch student organizers to talk nan ground for dismantling nan encampment, dispersing, and pursuing assemblage policies going forward."
The connection comes aft much than 100 group were arrested astatine Columbia University and cited for trespassing. Hundreds of students crossed nan state have held akin protests astatine their ain schools and person subsequently faced akin ineligible recourse.
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School officials are continuing to discuss pinch students to clear an anti-Israel encampment astatine Columbia University successful New York. (Getty Images)
Columbia, seen arsenic nan epicenter of nan existent protests astatine different elite colleges and universities, swelled quickly, and location person been instances of antisemitism and violence.
"I've had a friend who was beaten up," Itai Driefuss, a third-year Columbia undergrad and Israeli subject seasoned from Tel Aviv, told Fox News Digital. "It's scary. It's violent."
The anti-Israel encampment astatine Columbia University successful New York remains contempt assemblage officials calling for its dismantlement. (Peter Gerber)
He said nan protesters are praising nan militant Al-Quds Brigades, a Palestinian panic group aligned pinch Hamas. "It's nan aforesaid group who do autobus bombings and rape women and put babies successful an oven."
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Driefuss told Fox News Digital that he and his girlfriend, who is besides Jewish, had been followed home. He said he had been told to termination himself, spit connected and shouted at.
"I don't deliberation that's immoderate measurement to person immoderate campus, wherever you person a large portion of your student assemblage conscionable frightened for their lives," he said. "It’s loud, and it’s scary, and a batch of Jewish and Israeli group don’t locomotion astir connected field aft nan sun goes down."
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Similar protests person been witnessed astatine USC, Princeton, nan University of Michigan, UT-Austin and Yale. Hundreds of anti-Israel agitators person been arrested.
Fox News' CB Cotton and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
