Students at Columbia University set up a new anti-Israel encampment on campus Friday night, in the middle of Alumni Weekend.
The defiant protesters, members of Columbia Students for Justice for Palestine, camped out on the south lawn of the Manhattan campus next to a giant white party tent that was already set up for a celebratory alumni event that ends tomorrow.
“We’re back,” read one sign held up by protesters. New York Times video.
Another banner redefined the area (for the third time) as a “liberated zone.”
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Confirmed A social media post on Friday night highlighted the latest encampment at the Ivy League university.
The Post has reached out to the university for comment.
Columbia University’s Alumni Weekend kicked off Thursday with events scheduled through Sunday.
On April 30, NYPD officers swarmed the Columbia University campus and cleared the encampment and Hamilton Hall, which had been occupied by rioters. Over 100 people were arrested, many of them not affiliated with the university.
A little more than a week earlier, 100 more protesters were taken away as police cleared away the first encampment on campus, only for demonstrators to return the next day.
Elsewhere in New York, hundreds of anti-Israel protesters stormed the Brooklyn Museum on Friday, hoisting a banner from the building’s roof and destroying artwork in the process. Several people were seen being detained.
Earlier that same morning, hundreds of New York City high school students walked out of school to hold a pro-Palestinian protest in front of the Department of Education headquarters at Tweed Court in Lower Manhattan.
