Thirty students walked out of Hillary Clinton’s class at Columbia University to “shame” the Ivy League school for their views on allowing its students who signed anti-Israel statements to be publicly named and profiled.
The students joined nearly 300 others who sat peacefully in the lobby of the school’s International Affairs Building on Wednesday.
Clinton was about halfway through her two-hour lecture on women’s involvement in the peace process when students packed their bags and left, according to The New York Times.
Clinton reportedly exited through a side door and has not spoken publicly about the exit.
Students are protesting the school’s lack of action to prevent students from doing doxx, whose faces appeared on a truck driving near the Morningside Heights campus last week.
The students claimed the images used on the truck — along with the words “Columbia’s Leading Anti-Semites” — were taken from a “private and secure” server for students in the School of International and Public Affairs.
Thirty students walked out of Hillary Clinton’s class at Columbia University to “shame” the Ivy League school for allegedly not preventing students who signed anti-Israel statements from being cheated. Clinton has not spoken publicly about the exit. He reportedly left through a side door. The 30 students joined nearly 300 who sat peacefully in the lobby of the school’s International Affairs Building on Wednesday. Getty Images
It’s unclear who leaked the photo, but since the school is likely the copyright holder of the photo, it could potentially take action to prevent it from being displayed.
The students are demanding “immediate legal support for affected students” and want the school to show a “commitment to student safety,” the NYT reported.
The controversial student letter – released through the school’s Palestine Solidarity Group – blamed Israel for the ongoing war, writing: “The weight of responsibility for the war and the casualties undeniably lies with the extremist government of Israel and other Western governments, including the US government, which funding and supporting Israeli aggression, apartheid and settler colonialism.”
The letter denounced the school for “discriminating against Palestinians” and called on the Manhattan university to “stand firm for accountability and end its ties to apartheid Israel.”
Students are protesting the school’s role in publicly poaching students, whose faces were emblazoned on a truck that drove near the Morningside Heights campus last week. Adam Guillette/Accuracy in Media
More than 100 professors at the school also signed a letter Monday defending students who supported the Hamas terrorist attack on Isreal, which they referred to as “military action,” on Oct. 7 and asking the school to protect the students.
The Ivy League educator also demanded that Columbia “stop issuing statements that favor the suffering and death of Israelis or Jews over the suffering and death of Palestinians.”
The university has also launched an antisemitism task force to deal with the “highly resilient” hatred that has swept across its campus in recent weeks.
In a letter to students on Tuesday, University President Minouche Shafik also wrote about a “disturbing incident in which a truck has circled the Columbia campus displaying and publicizing the names and photos of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian students.”
He said the university was “pooling available resources to support” and that they were “grateful for the tenacity and resilience of students, and their families, in the face of this disruption.”
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