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A huge crowd of faculty members who teach at Columbia University in New York held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon to protest the institution having called police to arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week.

Hundreds of members of the teaching cohort at Columbia walked out in solidarity with the students who were arrested by the New York police department last week and also suspended by the university.

The solidarity protest came as students put protest tents back up in the middle of campus on Monday after they were torn down last week when more than 100 arrests were made.

The university on Monday morning announced that classes would be held remotely after further days of unrest on the New York campus, following the arrest of pro-Palestinian protesters there last week.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I blame AIPAC. AIPAC has been weaponizing any criticism of Isreal as antisemitism for the past decade - doing this erodes our ability to call out genuine antisemitism. AIPAC is accelerating social acceptance of absolutely vile positions.

For reference, I'm not Jewish but grew up in an antizionist slanted Jewish community and I think that Isreal's actions in Gaza are atrocious but I also don't fucking tolerate any genuine antisemitism (which does pop up on lemmy from time to time).

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

AIPAC and Israel's government itself.