Three Barnard College students, including US lawmaker Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi, have been suspended for participation in an ongoing Gaza solidarity protest encampment at Columbia University in New York City.
The suspension of the three students came as university administrators called on the New York Police Department (NYPD) to dismantle the tents that had been set up earlier on Wednesday.
Several students told MEE that heavily armed police dressed in riot gear entered the university lawns on Thursday to tear down the 50-plus tents. By late Thursday afternoon, the camps were gone and dozens of students had been arrested.
The developments on Thursday followed the revelations that three students - Isra Hirsi, 21, along with Maryam Iqbal, 18, and Soph Dinu, 21 - had received letters earlier in the day informing them they had been suspended, effective immediately, due to refusing to pay heed to calls to end their protest.
Absolutely they sure have massive flaws. But since there is nobody else standing up for the Palestinians right to self determination.
Hamas is the lesser of all evils. Including the US as Biden just proved.
If you want to prove Hamas wrong then show me someone else that’s stopping Palestinians from being Genocided.
Else don’t condemn the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.
Hm. Where the fuck have the billions in aid money to Gaza gone over the years?
Hamas has done some amazing “standing up for the Palestinians”…
Why doesn’t Hamas just make a liberal paradise inside of their concentration camp? Great question.
If your neighbor constantly shot at you, you’d build a wall between your houses too.
But Gaza has another boarder. Does Egypt participate in making Gaza a concentration camp?
If someone invades your land and kills your family you shoot them indeed. Which is what Palestinians do.
Israel controls the Egypt border so yes. Weird you bring that up.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/why-gazas-rafah-border-crossing-matters-why-egypt-is-keeping-it-shut-2023-10-17/
For someone who seems to like to portray a good understanding of the situation this seems like a huge oversight. Or were you bullshitting me?
So in light of this information, how is it possible to make Gaza into an open air prison or concentration camp when they don’t control the whole thing?
What’s stopping Palestinians from ending their crusade to kill all Jews and just use the aid money for actually improving their situation (imagine if Hamas allowed this)?
So who does the checking at Rafah is that Egypt? Why is there IDF at the scanners?
Because they stand to lose the most when Hamas brings in weapons. Stop acting confused.
The IDF isn’t stopping them from importing school building materials. You’re not actually this dense.
So why is Biden asking israel to lift the blockade? Not Egypt?
Every human rights organisation and NGO and Country in the world claims israel is blocking all aid and here you are here saying the opposite.