Amid Pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University, students say inclusiveness abounds

NEW YORK - More than a week into pro-Palestine protests on Columbia University’s campus, the air within and around its periphery remained tense. Discussions continued between the university administration and student organisers over the fate of the protests.

The show of solidarity was an effort by more than 100 Columbia University student groups, which had come together to form the Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition. Their key demands were for the university to disclose all information on their financial investments, and divest from all corporations profiting from the Israeli genocide in Palestine.which left 1,200 people dead in Israel and more than 250 taken hostage.

Police have also been called in to make arrests and break up encampments at campuses including those of Yale and New York University, where students have issued calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to US military assistance for Israel, and amnesty for students and faculty staff who have been fired for protesting.

On the other hand, US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, has called for her resignation, as according to him, her actions have allowed antisemitism to flourish on campus. Each day, hundreds of students have filled the lawn for peer-led teach-ins on Palestine and Israel, and to watch, hear and bask in Palestinian songs, dance and poetry readings.

One of the organisers of the day’s Seder feast was Ms Hannah Sattler, 27. The graduate student, who is Jewish, studies at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. She has family members who perished in the Holocaust. “The narrative that this is an unsafe space, or this is also an exclusive space — it’s so not. Like when you’re here, you know that’s not true, can tell that it’s not true,” said Ms Sattler.

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