NEW YORK – Columbia University on April 29 began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to disband an encampment of tents on its New York campus after the Ivy League school declared a stalemate in talks seeking to end the polarising protest.
Protesters have vowed to keep their encampment on the Manhattan campus until Columbia meets three demands: divestment, transparency in university finances, and amnesty for students and faculty members disciplined for their part in the protests. Even though more than 100 arrests were made, students restored the encampment on a hedge-lined lawn of the university grounds within days of the April 18 police action.
“The movement itself is not anti-Semitic,” said Mr Nicholas Fink, a freshman history major at Columbia who has not participated in the protests. The Los Angeles-based university later announced it was canceling the entire main-stage commencement ceremony for its May 10 graduation.
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