A woman was carried away on a stretcher as about 200 anti-Israel demonstrators continued to demonstrate at Columbia University on Saturday, photos show.
Columbia University paramedics responded to the call from the campus lawn and provided treatment to the student, a university spokesperson told the Post. The situation of the students was not clear.
Several student demonstrators held up black umbrellas and tarps to block her view.
Two days after the New York City Police Department raided a tent encampment on the Ivy League campus and arrested more than 100 students, about 200 demonstrators continued to speak out, hold placards and protest against Palestinians on Saturday. They continued their activities while waving the national flag.
“Rise, Rise with Liberation. No Occupation,” they shouted through the locked campus gates at W. 115th and Broadway.
“We want justice, how do you say that? Stop arming Israel now!” another group chanted.
Students are demanding the divestment of universities from Israel.
“We demand that Columbia University sever its academic ties with Israeli universities, and we demand that Columbia University end its censorship and intimidation of students who stand up and advocate for the liberation of Palestine.” one person shouted outside the school gates to the crowd gathered on the other side. campus.
A line of police officers wearing riot helmets stood guard. Several Israel supporters stood across Broadway.
Ross Glick, 50, told the Post that his grandparents are Holocaust survivors. The Upper East Side resident, who grew up in the Midwest during the first intifada, said, “This is more alarming.”
“There is no doubt that many innocent people are dying in Gaza, but to call it genocide… What about the 6,000 Muslims executed in gas chambers by Assad?” Glick said.
“If you don’t like that, go to Gaza,” he said of the protesters.
He said the protesters did not want a peaceful resolution.
“You don’t hear them talking about peace and coexistence. [It’s] Death to Israel. ” he said.
New York City Council members Shahana Hanif, Alexa Aviles, Sandy Nurse, and Tiffany Caban all stopped by in order to visit a demonstration in the early afternoon. The newspaper asked each office for comment.
Scores of protesters unaffiliated with Columbia flocked to the campus earlier in the day, including actress Susan Sarandon and a former University of California professor who once threatened a Post reporter with a machete.
A Columbia University spokesperson said that although the tent campground has been cleared, the school expects demonstrations to continue into October and beyond.
The school has rules regarding the time, place and manner of protests on campus and will continue to enforce them, the spokesperson said.
The NYPD announced Saturday that there were no arrests on campus.
Faculty at Columbia University and Barnard College denounced Thursday’s arrest and called for their records to be expunged.
Our sister school, the American Association of University Professors, issued a statement following Friday’s “massive emergency meeting” of faculty.
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the administrative suspension and New York City Police Department arrest of students who participated in peaceful protests,” according to a statement provided to the Post.
They said Columbia University has an “absolute obligation” to protect students’ free speech rights.
“We demand that all suspensions and charges at Barnard College and Columbia University be immediately withdrawn and removed from the student’s record, and that all rights and privileges be immediately restored to the student,” the faculty said. .
It also demanded that students who protest without due process face no disciplinary action and that police officers not be allowed on campus “without serious consultation” with the University Senate Executive Committee. .
