AOC has criticized Columbia University for its decision to call police to an encampment of anti-Israel protesters demanding that the school cut ties with companies that profit from the conflict in the Middle East.
Team member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 34, weighed in on the Ivy League University’s threats to call the NYPD on students after they failed to dismantle their protests before a midnight deadline.
“Calling the police to nonviolent demonstrations by young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless and dangerous act,” he wrote in a publish in X.
‘It represents an atrocious failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. “I condemn it in the strongest terms possible.”
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine issued a statement claiming that the university threatened to call in the National Guard on Tuesday night after President Minouche Shafik announced that there is a midnight deadline for protesters to reach a agree and dismantle their camp.
Team member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (pictured), 34, weighed in on Ivy League University’s threats to call the NYPD on students after they failed to dismantle their protests ahead of time. midnight limit.
Students raise their hands to indicate whether they would be willing to take action that could lead to their arrest before the midnight deadline set by Columbia’s president.
Students tear down tents before midnight, the deadline set by Columbia’s president for student protesters to leave the protest camp.
“Columbia University threatened CUAD negotiators that they would call in both the National Guard and the NYPD if we did not agree to their demands,” the group said.
“The student bargaining team has left the table and refuses to return until there is a written commitment that the administration will not use the NYPD or the National Guard against its students.”
The Ivy League experienced its seventh day of protests Tuesday as students stage a sit-in to demand that the university divest from companies that benefit from investment from Israel. war and cut academic ties with their universities.
Anti-Israel protesters were arrested outside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.
Fellow New York City congressman and ‘Squad’ member Jamaal Bowman, 48, agreed with AOC. “I condemn any possible police action on the Columbia University campus,” he posted.
“As an educator who has personally experienced excessive policing in our schools, this is personal to me,” he continued. “We must resist right-wing demagoguery and stop suppressing peaceful protests if we want to keep students safe.”
The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the ‘Squad,’ was arrested and later suspended for participating in anti-Israel protests on the Columbia campus.
Isra Hirsi, 21, was part of a now Multi-day protest on the Columbia University campus in support of Palestine that has drawn strong condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House.
She and two of her Barnard College classmates (the college is a sister school to Columbia) were among the more than 100 protesters arrested, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi (pictured), 21, was part of a days-long protest on the Columbia University campus in support of Palestine.
The pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime posted on X, formerly Twitter, calling on protesters to return to the university lawn before the deadline.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik (pictured) announced that there is a midnight deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to dismantle their camp.
Hirsi says she was evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall after the arrest.
The demonstration escalated again on Monday during the Jewish holiday of Passover, when staff and students walked out in protest of the NYPD’s call to control the protests.
The university president said a group of university professors, administrators and senators have been negotiating with student organizers and set a midnight deadline to reach an agreement to dismantle the encampment.
‘I very much hope that these debates will be successful. If not, we will have to consider alternative options to clean up the west lawn,” Shafik said.
‘The camp raises serious safety concerns, disrupts life on campus, and has created a tense and hostile environment for our community. It is essential that we move forward with a plan to dismantle it,” Shafik said.
‘I also want to make it clear that we will not tolerate bullying, harassing or discriminatory behaviour. “We are working to identify protesters who violated our anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, and they will be subject to appropriate disciplinary processes.”
Shafik has faced growing calls to resign because he has “handed control over to the anti-Semitic fringe” and allowed “anarchy” after canceling all in-person classes until the end of the semester.
On Tuesday, two Jewish Columbia University graduates snuck into the pro-Palestinian camp on campus with Israeli flags and accused the activists of “supporting radical Islamic terrorism.”
The Ivy League saw its seventh day of protests Tuesday as students staged a sit-in to demand that the university divest from companies that profit from Israel’s war and sever academic ties with its universities.
Two Jewish Columbia University graduates sneaked into the pro-Palestinian camp on campus carrying Israeli flags and accused activists of “supporting radical Islamic terrorism.”
Isidore Karten and his friend, Tomer Brenner, who entered the camp on Tuesday afternoon, also carried a sign with photographs of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. They were confronted by protesters and asked to leave, but they refused and spent several hours in the camp organizing their own counterprotest.
Both told DailyMail.com that the camp should be removed immediately by university leaders and accused pro-Palestinian activists of making Jewish students feel unsafe.
The camp has been set up on the south lawn of Columbia’s Upper West Side campus for about a week. The students involved in the action have refused to leave until the university commits to ending any investment linked to Israel.