Columbia University axes graduation ceremony as US colleges counter Gaza protests

NYPD officers in riot gear enter Columbia University's encampment as they evict a building that had been barricaded by pro-Palestinian student protesters in New York City on Apr 30, 2024. NEW YORK: Columbia University, the epicentre of US student protests against the war in Gaza, on Monday cancelled its main graduation ceremony, as colleges seek to contain the demonstrations that have rocked campuses for weeks.

"They have plenty of money ... But instead they chose the laziest option possible," politics student Ally Woodward, 24, told AFP, referring to university leaders. Others in the audience held Israeli flags, and a plane was seen flying overhead carrying a banner that said:"We stand with Israel. Jewish Lives Matter."

Dramatic scenes followed, with helmet-clad officers marching handcuffed demonstrators out of the university grounds onto police buses. Its sister institution in Los Angeles, on Monday reinstated in-person classes which had been moved online after demonstrators took over the campus with tents and banners, before being cleared by police in confrontations during the weekend.For many US students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be the second such ceremony that has been cancelled due to external disruption.

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