Pro-Hamas protesters seize control of historic Barnard academic building and assault college employee

Dozens of keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel protesters took over a building at Barnard College early Wednesday evening, assaulting a school employee while protesting the expulsions of two students who stormed a Columbia University class in January and threw around flyers loaded with hateful rhetoric.

Videos circulating online, posted by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine on X, show the masked students lining a hallway in Milbank Hall, the oldest building on campus, beating drums and loudly chanting through megaphones.

One of the X posts made by the group — which proclaims “long live the student intifada” in its bio — includes a list of demands, among them a reversal of the expulsions, amnesty for students punished during last year’s anti-Israel campus protests and a public meeting with Dean Leslie Grinage and Barnard President Laura Rosenbury.

Pro-Hamas protesters seize control of historic Barnard academic building and assault college employee

Several dozen keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel protesters took over a building on the Barnard College campus early Wednesday evening to protest the expulsions of two students who stormed a Columbia Univer…

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[mattfivefour]

Justice needs to come swift and hard on these violent protesters. They need to learn what is acceptable and what isn't.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I wouldn't have wanted any of my kids going to a college where there was a lot of lawlessness, especially if authorities didn't take quick action.