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Columbia in chaos as hundreds of anti-Israel protesters defy order to vacate tent camp: ‘We will not back down’
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Posted on 04/29/2024 1:57:57 PM PDT by lightman

Columbia University failed to bring disruptive anti-Israel protests under control Monday, as hundreds of protesters openly defied the school’s 2 p.m. ultimatum to vacate the campus encampment or face suspension and loss of access to dorms and class buildings.

“We will not back down,” student leaders proclaimed in a statement before the deadline expired.

As the deadline ticked away, hundreds of protesters remained on campus, beating drums and chanting slogans like “free, free, free Palestine” as they marched, beat drums and lounged around the tent city.

Police sources told The Post Monday afternoon that busloads of NYPD officers were standing by if summoned by the university. However, administrators had not asked cops to move in to remove students from the $90,000-per-year campus as it did April 18, during which 108 demonstrators were dragged away in cuffs.

Cops are not allowed on campus without authorization from the university.

In a statement to the student body Monday morning, embattled Columbia president Minouche Shafik made a final plea with student protesters to “voluntarily disperse” from campus, vowing to consider exploring “alternative internal options” to bring the crisis to a close.

[President]Shafik made clear that the protesters’ main demand — that the university divest from all companies that do business with Israel — was off the table.

The school also distributed notices around campus promising students amnesty from punishment if they turn themselves in to officials by the deadline and commit to obeying university policies...

According to the Columbia Spectator newspaper, students slapped with an interim suspension for flouting the deadline will be restricted from using all of Columbia’s “campuses, facilities and property, including all academic, residential and recreational spaces.” Students gather for a rally in support of a protest encampment on campus in support of Palestinians, despite a 2pm deadline.

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To: dfwgator

Why don’t we give them to Mongo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28khv-BydeY


41 posted on 04/29/2024 2:26:12 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: lightman

Use the “Esther” defense. Arms the Jews and let them take care of the problem.


42 posted on 04/29/2024 2:26:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Overtaxed

43 posted on 04/29/2024 2:26:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lightman

HOW TO COMMIT CAREER SUICIDE


44 posted on 04/29/2024 2:26:55 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: PGR88

Yep


45 posted on 04/29/2024 2:27:11 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: lastchance
Those tents crammed so close together looks like quite a violation of Fire Prevention Code. I believe the Fire Marshall has police powers in certain situations.

Columbia's leadership have already decreed that since Columbia is private property, local law enforcement has no jurisdiction.

I'll be John Wayne Gacy wishes he knew about this particular loophole.

46 posted on 04/29/2024 2:29:39 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

Kent State happened on 04May1970. Next is 04May.


47 posted on 04/29/2024 2:29:47 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: lightman

Fox 7 Austin

Live

UT protest. Kids screaming for medics and water. Off our campus!


48 posted on 04/29/2024 2:30:51 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: lightman

Shoot the b@$t@rd$!


49 posted on 04/29/2024 2:31:19 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

In the old days students protested the war.

These days they are not protesting the war, just our ally.

There’s a distinction.


50 posted on 04/29/2024 2:31:32 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: TornadoAlley3

“Help, Help, I’m being repressed!”


51 posted on 04/29/2024 2:31:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Drew68
By the time this is over, Columbia will give them all A's for the semester.

-PJ

52 posted on 04/29/2024 2:31:55 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: lightman

Have some farmers spray some liquid manure fertilizwr!


53 posted on 04/29/2024 2:32:35 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: lightman

54 posted on 04/29/2024 2:32:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
Kent State!

Four was too few, and on top of that they shot the wrong ones! Not a single movement leader was harmed.

55 posted on 04/29/2024 2:33:44 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Vendome

56 posted on 04/29/2024 2:34:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Someone’s gonna get hurt before this is through.


57 posted on 04/29/2024 2:34:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: dfwgator

Bloody peasant!


58 posted on 04/29/2024 2:34:41 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
Three days ago, I said "it will soon become the left's "Anti-Kent State." The college protesters are going to kill some cops.

-PJ

59 posted on 04/29/2024 2:35:02 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Clay Moore

Oh, what a giveaway.


60 posted on 04/29/2024 2:35:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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