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Pro-Palestinian protesters dig in at Columbia University, other U.S. campuses

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University of Texas Police detain a man at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Austin, Tex. on April 24.

After the Ivy League school had police arrest more than 100 participants last week, the encampment expanded by hundreds at a new location on campus. The university set a deadline of midnight Wednesday to negotiate the protest’s end, as police gathered nearby. The time was later moved to 8 a.m. and then extended to Friday.

Mr. Johnson demanded that if Columbia president Minouche Shafik “cannot immediately bring order to this chaos,” she should resign. David Pomerance, one of the students who met with Mr. Johnson, said it has been “very difficult to study and prepare for finals” during the demonstration. He also objected to pro-Palestinian students disparaging U.S. support for Israel.

Protester Jared Kannel, a 26-year-old graduate student, said there are many Jewish people, such as himself, who support the encampment. “The biggest victims right now are not Jewish Columbia students. That distracts from the big story we should be focusing on: the massacre of Palestinians,” he said.

 

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