New anti-Israel tent city takes over Columbia University lawn days after NYPD raid as activists vow to stay ‘forever’
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Social Links for Khristina Narizhnaya and
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Published April 21, 2024, 6:33 p.m. ET
A massive new anti-Israel tent city took over Columbia University on Sunday, just days after an NYPD raid cleared another intrusive encampment there and cuffed more than 100 protesters.
At least 30 tents were sprawled across the Manhattan Ivy League school’s West Lawn along with piles of food and supplies as embattled university officials struggled to contain the growing crisis.
The upheaval and threats to Jewish students have become so intolerable that a prominent rabbi at the prestigious school urged them Sunday to stay home — and university officials told them they could take classes online.
“We are looking for our demands, and we are going to continue that,” an encampment protester defiantly told The Post on Sunday. “We are here forever. We’re here as long as [it takes till] Columbia meets our demands. “This has been going on for five days, this is Day 5,” the rallier said of the latest protest, which is urging among other things that the university divest from Israel.
“There are people sleeping here, we eat our meals here. The people who are fortunate enough to not have gotten suspended, they also go home to get more materials. We have runners. They are grabbing us stuff and being very supportive,” she said.
“We have an entire community here that’s willing to help us. This is a community, it’s a camaraderie.”
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