Police raid Columbia University campus to break up pro-Palestinian protest

Police have raided Columbia University and arrested pro-Palestinian protesters after demonstrators occupied one of its buildings. It comes after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that the demonstration at the Ivy League school 'must end now' and claimed it had been infiltrated by 'professional outside agitators'. University bosses said they called in the New York Police Department after protesters 'chose to escalate the situation through their actions'.

A group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest said they had renamed the building 'Hind's Hall' in honour of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed in a strike on Gaza in February. Demonstrators said they planned to remain at the hall until the university conceded to the CUAD's three demands: divestment, financial transparency and amnesty.

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