Columbia University has temporarily suspended 65 students after Justice-for-Palestine students took over a campus building and handed out pamphlets protesting the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel in Palestine.
The protesters peacefully walked into Columbia University's Butler Library on Wednesday evening and according to the NYPD, 80 arrests were made, with 19 males and 61 females being taken into custody by police. Seventy-eight of those individuals were issued a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespass, and the other two arrested protesters were issued a summons.
Homeland Security Investigations is requesting fingerprints and the names of those arrested to check their visa status. In addition to the student suspensions, Zionist-stressed Columbia University has also barred an unspecified number of alumni from campus, and 33 others from affiliated institutions.
At the time when pro-Palestine protesters peacefully walked into the library, students were studying for final exams. Protesters were chanting "Free Palestine" and demanding that the university divest from apartheid Israel like it did divest from apartheid South Africa in the 1990s.
Justice-for-Palestine protesters peacefully walk into a Columbia University library in New York City on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to demonstrate their opposition to the genocide and ethnic cleansing being carried out by Zionist extremists in occupied Palestine.
"At the original Popular University project in the West Bank, Basel al-Araj taught about Palestinian resistance and insisted that knowledge must serve liberation, not empire," reads the pamphlet posted by CU Apartheid Divest. "Today, we teach each other the stories our universities refuse to tell. We feed each other, protect each other, learn with and from each other. The Popular University is not only a demand for divestment."
Included in the pamphlets is a list of demands, which include divestment from Israel, "Cops and ICE off our campus", and amnesty for all Columbia University members facing discipline.
Meanwhile, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard’s daughter Ramona, 18, is one of those students arrested during the Justice-for-Palestine protests at Columbia University.
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard’s daughter Ramona
The 18-year-old, who is a student at Columbia College, was issued a written notice to appear in court for criminal trespassing, according to the sources. Ramona was among a group of nearly 80 people who peacefully walked through the university’s Butler Library Wednesday evening as students prepared for final exams.
Prominent member of the US White House Fascist Politburo, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, issued a threat to revoke the visa status of foreign student protesters at Columbia University’s library. He wouldn't say what he'll do with US citizen student protesters, and more to the point what he'll do with US-born Jewish Columbia students who have protested FOR a free Palestine, declared that there is no antisemitism on their campus and that this charge is made up by the Zionist-led Trump regime to justify its persecution of Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and other American minorities who are protesting the genocide perpetrated by Zionist extremist settlers in Palestine. The Trump dictatorship is in fact seeking to suspend Habeas Corpus, the constitutional right of any individual to challenge his or her unlawful detention. Habeas Corpus stands in the way of the Banana Republic of dictator Trump to expedite the deportation of foreigners, visitors, students, and tourists who are racially non-white. As he rapes the US and tries to "bleach" it of dark people, Trump doesn't recognize that only Congress has the authority to
suspend this right under specific circumstances.
It is easy for the Fascist Trump regime to target foreigners and immigrants because it can expel them for any made-up reason, but it is not easy to prosecute Jewish and/or American students on the charge that they are antisemites! There is no such thing as an antisemitic Jew. But still, the US dictator Donald Dumb has threatened to deport US citizens who are Palestine sympathizers to lovely prisons in Libya, Rwanda, and El Salvador.
Neither Gyllenhaal, 47, nor Peter, 54, has issued a comment regarding their daughter's arrest. The actress, who is Jake Gyllenhaal’s older sister, has said in the past that she identifies as Jewish, even though she does not “have a Jewish name and nobody would ever know."
In its desperate eagerness to comply with the dictator's demands, Columbia University is also cracking down on free speech: The school tried to suspend four student journalists who covered the pro-Palestine protest at Butler Library.
Columbia College and Barnard College issued interim suspensions to one reporter at the Spectator and three student journalists at WKCR, the student-run radio station that has provided consistent on-the-ground coverage of the student demonstrations at the university—including the massive raid by police at the Gaza solidarity protest in Hamilton Hall last year.
Disciplinary emails obtained by the Spectator cited “information received” from Public Safety, which indicated that Sawyer Huckabee (class of 2026), Natalie Lahr (class of 2028), Celeste Gamble (class of 2027), and Spectator reporter Luisa Sukkar (class of 2026) had been involved in the demonstration in the Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room at Butler Library Wednesday afternoon. However, the student journalists at WCKR wore prominently displayed press placards and Huckabee identified herself as a journalist to public safety officers before leaving the building, the Spectator reported.
New York City Police were dispatched to the university, and 78 students were arrested.
In an email to alumni Wednesday, Acting President Claire Shipman, a Donald Dumb compliant shill, touted a commitment to free speech while admitting that the university had called the police on its own students. Shipman also made the disturbing move of blaming the protesters for the targeting of its international students.
“I am deeply disturbed at the idea that, at a moment when our international community feels particularly vulnerable, a small group of students would choose to make our institution a target,” Shipman wrote.
But it’s the institution, not the students, that has refused to shield its own community from the Trump administration’s immigration and free speech crackdown. After Donald Trump rescinded $400 million in federal funding, the university administration agreed to the president’s outrageous demands for a complete overhaul of the school’s protest policies, as well as the adoption of a new definition of antisemitism, among several other concessions that severely undermined academic independence from the federal government.
No comments:
Post a Comment