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‘Resistance takes a variety of forms’: Cornel West on Columbia protests

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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — Presidential candidate, activist and philosopher Cornel West came to the defense of Columbia University students who are protesting the ongoing war in Gaza. “You can see that those peaceful students were in no way a clear and present danger. Not at all,” West told “NewsNation Now” on Friday. “They were siphoned off in front of the library; people could walk back and forth. And you had a number of people there trying to en…

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Jewish students at Columbia University ask to study remotely as pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue

Defiant students at Columbia University continued Friday to protest the war in Gaza as some Jewish students requested permission to study remotely.

14 days ago·New York, United States

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MY Northwest

Columbia University protesters may spark BLM-style cause

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14 days ago·Tacoma, United States

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‘Resistance takes a variety of forms’: Cornel West on Columbia protests

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The Forward

‘Egregious:’ A legal perspective on Columbia University's mass arrests

Police arrested more than 100 students and two legal observers at Columbia University Thursday after Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, fresh off of her Congressional hearing on antisemitism on campus, asked the New York police department to remove them. The day before, the students had pitched tents in the center of campus — what they call the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” It was a long-planned action to force the university to divest from c…

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