After unsuccessful negotiations between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and the renowned Columbia University in New York the university is now taking action against students.
Negotiations without results
They have begun suspending students, a university representative said on Monday (local time). This is part of the next phase Security on campus to ensure. The demonstrators previously missed a Monday afternoon deadline to clear their protest camp on campus.
University President Minouche Shafik announced on Monday that negotiations between the two sides had lasted for days ended without result gone. She appealed to the demonstrators to “voluntarily” vacate their camp – but the protesters did not comply with this for the time being. The deadline set for them passed, without any sign of resolution of the camp with 200 people.
Transparency about investments
In one read out by a student after the deadline The explanation was about fearmongering. The protest participants would not leave until the university complied with their demands or they were forcibly removed.
The university management had been negotiating with the demonstrators since Wednesday. A central topic of debate was the Demand of the protestersthat Columbia University is from Separate companies with ties to Israel must. In her statement on Monday, Shafik made it clear that the university had no intention of “withdrawing investments from Israel.” However, in the discussions, the university management offered to increase transparency about the decisions taken by the investments made by the university and to accelerate the examination of student suggestions for “socially responsible investing”.
“Unbearable” atmosphere
However, Shafik complained that many of the Jewish students who have attended the school in recent weeks Columbia University atmosphere “unbearable” found and therefore left the university. “Anti-Semitic language and actions are unacceptable and calls for violence are simply abhorrent,” said the university president.
In mid-April the university had the Police called to campusto take action against the protests. More than 100 people were arrested. The pro-Palestinian protests then spread to other colleges across the country.
Last weekend, police broke up protest camps at several US universities, sometimes using chemical irritants and Tasers. Around 275 protesters were arrestedincluding 100 at Northeastern University in Boston alone.
Accusation of anti-Semitism
The administration of US President Joe Biden called on protesters to refrain from violence on. “We obviously respect the right to peaceful protests,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on ABC News on Sunday. However, the government condemns anti-Semitic statements “as well as circulating hate speech and threats of violence.”
The organizers of the protests reject the Accusation of anti-Semitism back. They emphasize that the protests are directed against Israel’s warfare in the Gaza Strip.
The war in the Gaza Strip was carried out by the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas Major attack on Israel on October 7th been triggered. According to Israeli information, 1,170 people were killed and around 250 others were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel has taken massive military action in the Palestinian territory. According to information from the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, which cannot be independently verified, more than 34,480 people killed.
