This is the second protest to occur in a week after around 100 students staged one outside the dean’s office
The leadership of Columbia University's Barnard College in New York City called law enforcement on their students after they staged a library sit-in on Wednesday, the second such sit-in in a week.
A group of students congregated outside the Milstein Center at Barnard around 1pm on Wednesday local time and renamed it the "Dr Hussam Abu Safiya liberated zone". They campaigned for the reinstatement of three recently expelled peers, amnesty for all protestors, divestment from Israel, and justice for Gaza's Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as well as all Palestinians.
Pediatrician Dr Abu Safiya was the director of the Kamal Adwan hospital and is currently detained by Israel. It is the last surviving major medical facility in northern Gaza, which was bombed and destroyed by Israeli army forces two days after Christmas in 2024.
Around three hours after the sit-in began, just after 4pm, Barnard vice president for strategic communications Robin Levine told protesters in the Milstein Center that there was a bomb threat and urged everyone to leave. Some protestors refused to go, and Barnard leadership called in the New York Police Department.
Police - including the counterterrorism unit, the Strategic Response Group - swept the building and arrested nine students.
Officers took zip-tied students back into the Milstein Center that they had just evacuated, leading students to believe the bomb threat had been manufactured by leadership. (more...)
US: Nine Barnard students arrested in campus sweep after second sit-in
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