NOW: On first day of classes, Pro-Palestine protesters have created a picket outside of Columbia University, demanding to “Shut It Down” and telling students – “Don’t Go to Classes, Do Not Enter, Call Out Sick”.
Huge line of students has formed around the block to go in.
Video… pic.twitter.com/rwSkFxHadi
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) September 3, 2024
Columbia University students are hitting the ground running this semester, not with books but with picket signs! They’re out in force, demanding the university divest from Israel.
As the administration tries to clamp down on their right to protest for #Gaza, these students are… pic.twitter.com/1eRKA0vaou
— General Strike 🍀(Terrence Daniels) (@Terrence_STR) September 3, 2024
VIDEO: Columbia University Alma Mater statue dripping in red paint on the first day of fall classes as students protest against the university’s continue support for genocide.
Provided anon. https://t.co/ryMQTg2eeJ pic.twitter.com/IaHmQEXBKr
— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg) September 3, 2024
“I’m here to protest Jews mass murdering children. I want them to stop doing that.”
“Sir, this is a democracy.”
(Get it? Like that stupid Wendy’s meme. That was never funny. Firstly, it was the worst normie meme. Secondly, people should take Wendy’s seriously.)
The NYPD arrested two people Tuesday as dozens of screaming anti-Israel protesters swarmed Columbia University and Barnard College on the first day of classes — resuming the chaotic demonstrations that paralyzed the Upper Manhattan campus at the tail end of last semester.
The rowdy demonstrators formed a picket line and banged drums as scores of students waited in lengthy lines to pass through security and gain access to the Ivy League school in Morningside Heights.
Protests also formed outside of neighboring Barnard College, CU’s sister school, where two demonstrators, including one shrouding their face and head with a keffiyeh scarf, were taken into custody.
The protesters — including many brandishing signs declaring “resist until victory” — could be heard chanting “over 100,000 dead, Columbia your hands are red” and “don’t cross the picket line, we must honor Palestine.”
At one point, there were at least 150 students stretched around the block to enter via the tall iron gates at Broadway and West 116th Street.
Inside the campus, the Alma Mater, a bronze statue dating back to the early 1900s and located on the steps of the Low Memorial Library, had been vandalized with red paint by noon.
It was probably Jews who did the vandalism.
Jews are going to these protests to do crimes so the police will shut them down.
🚨🇺🇸Major Pro Hamas protest get out of hand in New York multiple people arrested thousands of protesters block the streets and roads also blocked off Columbia University for the first day of classes⚠️ pic.twitter.com/6JuwRiRc4t
— Todd Paron🇺🇸🇬🇷🎧👽 (@tparon) September 3, 2024