{"id":38516,"date":"2024-04-29T20:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/israel-hamas-war-students-defy-threat-of-suspension-over-columbia-university-pro-palestinian-protest-camp\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T20:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:55:54","slug":"israel-hamas-war-students-defy-threat-of-suspension-over-columbia-university-pro-palestinian-protest-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/israel-hamas-war-students-defy-threat-of-suspension-over-columbia-university-pro-palestinian-protest-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Hamas war: Students defy threat of suspension over Columbia University pro-Palestinian protest camp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-Palestinian students in the US have defied an order by university officials to dismantle a tent camp set up to protest Israel’s war in Gaza or face suspension.<\/p>\n

College authorities at Columbia University in New York<\/strong><\/a>, sent students a letter on Monday demanding they sign a form agreeing to obey university policies until June 2025 or an earlier graduation, if they wish to finish the term in good standing.<\/p>\n

If they failed to comply by 2pm, local time, the letter said, they would be suspended, pending further investigation and would not finish the term, the note said.<\/p>\n

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But those at the camp, now in its second week, voted nearly unanimously to stay put, NBC, Sky’s US partner, said.<\/p>\n

Around 2.45pm, protesters were seen marching on the quad and chanting “Disclose! Divest! We will not slow, we will not rest!'”, NBC said.<\/p>\n

More than 300 people and at least 120 tents remained.<\/p>\n

Noting that exams are starting and graduation is coming up, the letter said: “We urge you to remove the encampment so that we do not deprive your fellow students, their families and friends of this momentous occasion.”<\/p>\n

Mahmoud Khalil, the protesters’ lead negotiator, said university representatives began passing out the notices at the encampment shortly after 10am on Monday.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators set up tents in the centre of the Columbia campus in one of the early pro-Palestinian<\/a><\/strong> protests over the Israel-Hamas war and its mounting death toll, but dissent quickly spread to other colleges, sparking clashes with police and arrests.<\/p>\n

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More than 900 people have been arrested across the US since<\/strong><\/a> police in New York removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia, arresting more than 100 demonstrators as they did so, on 18 April.<\/p>\n

Clashes have continued, with about 275 people arrested on Saturday at various campuses including Indiana University at Bloomington, Arizona State University and Washington University in St Louis.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday night and Monday, people at an encampment near George Washington University in the US capital, protested, breaching and dismantling barriers.<\/p>\n

Protesters at Yale University set up a new encampment with dozens of tents on Sunday afternoon, nearly a week after police arrested nearly 50 demonstrators and cleared a similar camp.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
Student anti-Israel protests continue to sweep the US<\/a><\/strong>
Campus protests sum up a moment of divisiveness<\/a><\/strong>
Man arrested for swastika placard at London protest<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war<\/strong><\/a>, according to local health officials, who say about two-thirds of the dead are women and children.<\/p>\n

Israel declared war on Hamas<\/strong><\/a> and unleashed an air and ground offensive in Gaza in response to the attack on southern Israel on 7 October.<\/p>\n

Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took another 250 hostages in its assault.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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