Students continue protest at Columbia University despite expulsion threats
We are outside the Hamilton Hall, a building that was occupied by a group of students who barricaded themselves inside and displayed a flag there, renaming the building to “Hind’s Hall”, after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. The students remain there.
The people… outside – many of them are from Columbia University – have come to show their support for the students who remain inside. They are saying that they are not allowed in because the university is on lockdown. Only essential personnel and students that are living inside remain there.
The students inside say they are under siege and that the university is trying to isolate them and force them to quit this protest. We’ve seen the students outside bringing them food and water, so that they can remain inside.
The university is saying the students who remain at the encampment will be suspended and those who took over the hall will be expelled.
Despite these threats, the students inside say that for now they are not going anywhere.
Student protesters move supplies from outside Hamilton Hall, where students at Columbia University barricaded themselves as they continue to protest in support of Palestinians, in New York City on April 30
Palestinians in Ramallah protest Canada’s support for Israel’s war
Palestinians on Tuesday thanked Canadian university students for ‘standing up for Gaza’ at a protest near the Canadian representative office in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday
Some held flags while others held posters calling for ‘unity against injustice’
Students at Canada’s McGill University, University of British Colombia, and University of Toronto have been protesting against the Canadian government’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza
Members of the Palestinian Authority police force prevent demonstrators from reaching the Canadian Representative Office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank
Students, faculty hold vigil at Austin jail for detained University of Texas protesters
I’m outside the Travis County Jail, where 79 protesters were taken after police broke up an encampment at the University of Texas in Austin.
Throughout the afternoon, we’ve been seeing a trickle of those protesters being released. There’s been a vigil held here that started overnight by faculty and students who say they will stay here until the very last of those arrested protesters is released.
Every time someone is released, the crowd cheers, claps and the drums kick in.
Some of the protesters are holding up blankets and umbrellas to shield them as some of them may come out not wanting the media attention on them.
‘Large police presence at Columbia’: Student organisers
The student organisers of the Gaza Solidarity encampment at Columbia University say there is a “large [police] presence on and around” the campus of the university in New York.
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