Anti-Israel activists at Yale University in Connecticut set up a “liberated zone” on Saturday in solidarity with Columbia University in New York City.
This comes after protesters at Columbia University were heard shouting pro-Hamas slogans and set up a camp on campus on Thursday, which continued into Friday, resulting in more than 100 arrests. That’s what it meant.
Protesters were also seen setting up camp at Yale University, holding banners that read “Free Zone.”
The video begins with students holding a banner and placing it on the ground in front of several students. The students were surrounded by banners that read, “Stop investing in genocide,” “Jews call for a ceasefire now,” “Yale is complicit,” and “Stop genocide.” It is being
During the Columbia University demonstration, anti-Israel demonstrators were heard shouting “We are Hamas” and “Long live Hamas”
Yale University protesters set up liberated zone encampment to show solidarity with Columbia University (FNTV)
The video also shows a woman and a man playing drums before the man stands up and starts playing the horn.
Other photos showed protesters marching through campus holding placards and chanting their demands.
“Up, up with liberation. Down, down with occupation,” they shouted.
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Protesters at Yale University marched through campus chanting “Free, Free, Free Palestine.” (FNTV)
The demonstrators held placards that read “Shame, Liberate Palestine,” followed by “Stop the genocide. Free, free, free Palestine.”
A tent was set up in the common area, and chants could be heard coming from the other side of the tent.
A Jewish man was then seen talking to a man wearing a shirt that read “F- -k Hamas.”
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A man attempting to record a protest at Yale University on April 20, 2024, was stalked by activists using umbrellas and flags to prevent him from witnessing the action. (FNTV)
A man wearing the shirt tried to record the protest while walking among demonstrators, but the men started following him, blocking his view and shoving flags and umbrellas in his face.
William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell University School of Law who has studied the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for about 15 years, said the protests at Ivy League universities such as Columbia University and Yale University are similar to Occupy Wall Street in 2011. He told FOX News Digital that it reminded him of exercise. During the movement, protesters set up encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district, raising issues such as economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of money in politics.
“It’s a slightly different theme here, but it’s actually the same theme. So this is an anti-capitalist movement. It’s about a movement. It’s a movement that ‘destroys our society'” Jacob Mr. Song said. “I think this is essentially a similar phenomenon directed at Israel as the object of their hatred instead of Wall Street or something else.”
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Protesters at Yale University set up an encampment on campus on April 20, 2024. (FNTV)
Although the Yale protesters established a “liberation zone,” that doesn’t actually mean they’re free from anything, and they still rely on a system that provides them with water, food, and other things. He said that it depends on the
Professor Jacobson also said that the protests stem from more than 20 years of “grossly dehumanization” of Israeli Jews on campus through the BDS movement and radical faculty on most campuses across the country, especially Columbia University. He also said that he believed that this was the result of people being “encouraged.”
While covering the BDS movement, Jacobson realized that boycotts were just a tactic. He said at first he had no idea it was just a tactic, but then it clicked for him.
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Protesters at Yale University set up encampment to boycott Israel’s occupation of Gaza. (FNTV)
“They don’t really care if you boycott Chablis in the cafeteria. They don’t care about that at all,” Jacobson said. “What they care about is having the entire campus debate for three or four months how evil Israel is and then declare victory anyway, even if they lose the vote.”
Ultimately, he said, the anti-capitalist movement focuses on Israel, and because Jews support Israel, it leads to the dehumanization of Jews.
But according to the Cornell University law professor, there are other factors influencing protests.
A psychological experience for students who are told they have to take out large amounts of debt to attend an elite university, only to find out that their dreams have been shattered by a system that tempts them to take on huge amounts of debt. There may be side effects.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators demonstrate alongside New York City police lines outside the Columbia University campus on Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York City. Several students were arrested as police cleared positions on the campus lawn. (Peter Garber, Fox News Digital)
Others may have avoided debt but are unable to find a stable career path.
“I think there’s a lot going on, and as has been the case historically, Israel and the Jews are a convenient scapegoat,” Jacobson said.
Nearly 500 students were arrested at Columbia University on Saturday night, just two days after tensions reached a breaking point when New York City police arrested 108 people who refused to leave an encampment set up on the main lawn. They were seen protesting.
Isra Hirsi, the daughter of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), was also arrested during Thursday’s protests. Hirschi was taken into custody, cuffs and zip ties were placed on her, and she will be charged with trespassing, sources said.
Earlier in the day, Hirschi announced she had been suspended from Barnard College near Columbia for “standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing genocide.”
The student newspaper, the Columbia Spectator, reported, “Suspended Columbia University students may remain in their dorm rooms, but suspended Barnard students have been kicked out of university housing.”
Social media posts also show several New York City Council members arriving to observe the ongoing protests.
As protests continue at Columbia University, Jacobson said a BDS referendum was sent to Cornell’s student body for voting, but faculty were not immediately informed of the results. .
Still, moves like those seen at Columbia University, Yale University and several other campuses across the country are, as Jacobson calls them, “dead-end moves.”
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“I don’t think they really have a future because they’re built around destroying things,” he said. “They don’t have any positive purpose. Their purpose is to destroy things, and what people need to understand is that these protesters who are ostensibly anti-Israel are also anti-American. I think that’s what it means.
“This is almost a perfect overlap between anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-capitalist demonstrators,” he added. “That’s what this movement is about. It’s not just about the war in Gaza.”
Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson, Louis Casiano, Alexis McAdams and CB Cotton contributed to this report.
