Warning of 'outside agitators,' Eric Adams escalates rhetoric against Columbia protesters

Pro-Palestinian protesters chant outside the entrance to the Columbia University campus, in New York City, on April 30, 2024. | Madina Touré/POLITICONEW YORK — Insisting demonstrations at Columbia University have “been co-opted by professional outside agitators,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday told students to leave their makeshift encampment.

He then warned parents and guardians to “please call your child and urge them to leave the area before the situation escalates. This is for their own safety and the safety of others.” The mayor’s warning Tuesday night contained some of his most forceful language since students protesting Columbia’s ties to Israel and its military operation in Gaza escalated their opposition with an encampment on the Ivy League campus April 17. In the days since, similar encampments have sprung up across New York City and around the world.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group behind the encampment, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A demonstrator sitting outside Hamilton Hall told POLITICO no one was available for comment.

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