House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Jewish students at Columbia University on Wednesday and called on president Nemat "Minouche" Shafik to resign during a tense campus news conference before pro-Palestinian activists.
Guzman reiterated the university "values freedom of expression and protects the right of every member of our community to express themselves," but added, "We have well-established policies regarding limits on the time,
Nemat Shafik, the university’s leader, met privately with faculty members, who could soon decide to admonish her. Columbia’s board, though, made its support clear.
Police and protesters are clashing at U.S. college campuses as fears of antisemitism and Islamophobia grow among students and faculty members. Gelila Negesse, a senior staff writer for the Columbia Daily Spectator,
Increasingly confrontational pro-Palestinian rallies by students protesting the death toll from the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted across US college campuses Wednesday, triggering tense faceoffs with police in Texas and California.
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign when he visited the campus Wednesday, as student protests over the Israel-Hamas war continue.
The NYPD is investigating two separate hate crimes in Manhattan this month, including one near Columbia University that involved flag-burning, police said on Friday. Law enforcement officials said that on Saturday,
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread across U.S. campuses, tensions remained high Wednesday at Columbia University, one of the first sites to see students bunker down to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
Columbia University’s week-long protests took a chaotic turn Thursday when pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrators clashed as tensions over the college encampments in New York City reached a fever pitch.
A wave of pro-Palestinian protest grew even larger Wednesday as college students around the country marched, camped out and in some cases were taken into police custody.
A wave of pro-Palestinian protest grew even larger Wednesday as college students around the country marched, camped out and in some cases were taken into police custody.
Columbia officials said negotiations were showing progress as the school’s self-imposed early Friday deadline to reach an agreement on dismantling the encampment came and went.
Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza.Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for