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

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.

‘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…

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

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…

Columbia University protesters may spark BLM-style cause

Scores of antisemitic, pro-Hamas student protesters and activists were arrested at Columbia University on Thursday for trespassing, after forming a Jew-hating encampment. You can already see the same script from the Black Lives Matter and Antifa violence being rewritten. How police and lawmakers respond in the next week will likely tell us if we’re in for another “Summer of Love” like what we saw in Seattle. The activist encampment formed Wednes…