Columbia University shifts classes to remote-only after a wave of protests on campus

Students occupy the campus Columbia University on Friday, calling for the school to divest from companies with ties to Israel.Students occupy the campus Columbia University on Friday, calling for the school to divest from companies with ties to Israel.Columbia University announced that all classes will be remote on Monday in an attempt to"deescalate the rancor" amid growing tensions on campus over Israel's war in Gaza.

The more than 300 protesters continue to block the intersection. There were more than 40 officers on the scene; they have now almost all entered the Schwarzman Center rotunda and are not allowing students inside.These flashpoints are the latest in what has been a months-long streak of turmoil on college campuses since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Attackers killed 1,200 people and took another roughly 250 hostage, Israel said.

"It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved," Buechler wrote in a group chat with students., as students played Israeli music and waved the Israeli flag in a demonstration Saturday night, one individual approached with a sign that read"Al Qasam's next targets." (Students from schools across the U.S.

Over the past few days, students from other schools set up their own protest encampment, largely in solidarity with the Columbia students who were arrested. They also called for divestment from Israel.

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