I remember when Barnard was a high-class, private women's college, which obviously it no longer is. The parents must be thrilled to know what their tuition money is paying for.
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Anti-Israel activists at Barnard College invade campus building, injure employee
"NEW YORK — Anti-Israel protesters at Barnard College, an affiliate of New York’s Columbia University, invaded a campus building on Wednesday to protest the expulsion of two students who disrupted an Israeli professor’s class at the start of the semester.
"Barnard said the students injured a college employee, who required treatment at a hospital.
"The protesters shared footage showing dozens of activists, mostly masked by keffiyehs, chanting and beating a drum in a hallway beneath several Palestinian flags.
"The demonstrators chanted, “Every fascist state must fall,” and “Palestine is Arab,” in Arabic, according to the footage.
"The students said they were outside the college dean’s office.
"The campus coalition Columbia University Apartheid Divest, led by
Columbia’s branches of Students for Justice in Palestine and the
anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a statement that students
were staging an “emergency sit-in” outside the dean’s office.
"The group demanded that the university reverse the expulsions, give amnesty to all students disciplined for anti-Israel protests, grant the activists a meeting with Barnard leadership, and abolish the college’s disciplinary system.
“When two students are expelled, hundreds more rise up,” the statement said. “The repression cannot stand! We will not rest until full amnesty.”
"The protest group told participants to wear a mask and avoid swiping their university IDs. The protesters shared photos showing graffiti that said, “Fuck Barnard.”
"Unity of Fields, an off-campus activist group, posted footage of activists shoving their way into a building and chanting “intifada revolution” and “free Palestine.”
"Jewish students posted online that they were blocked from entering the building and attending classes."
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