Columbia University officials have ordered classes to be held virtually as they seek to deescalate tensions on the New York City campus during pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Bassam Khawaja, a lecturer at Columbia Law School, joins Al Jazeera’s live from New York.
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The situation at Columbia is based on corruption. The Israel lobby corrupts everything and everyone in the USA.
God bless these students.
Ameen
Free Israel (and college campuses) from the Jihad.
Cus you hater and 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣👎👎👎👎
MAY THE HOLY SPIRIT ALWAYS BE YOUR GUIDE!!! ❤
These strange scenes remind me of the crackdowns of the Iranian protests supporting the women’s freedom, something that the US government repeatedly called a violation of human rights and freedom of speech!!!
womens rights and Islum don’t mix
Regardless of what it reminds you of, it is not a crackdown. They are being arrested for trespassing.
@@Matthew_LoutnerThey literally are students of columbia univ. How can they be trespass in their own campus?? How can you be this ignorant?
They should go Back home.
There no freedom of speech in west that is lie one woman killed iran world was cyout and 10000 woman in gaza west are silence
The ignorant children of terrorist HAMAS in protest?.. so idiots😂😂😂
Thought the USA was a democratic country??????
Anti-Genocide is not Anti-Semitism.
Anti-genocide with no genocide?
@@user-dc6ek4ry2z I really surprised that people can be this ignorant and blind
@@user-dc6ek4ry2zare you blind?
@@user-dc6ek4ry2zit is but you don’t want to acknowledge it
@@user-dc6ek4ry2zwith the era of internet and social media, information can be retrieved so easily, yet you choose to be deaf and blind. well, that’s just… sad, really.
He who stores up in summer is a provident son,
he who sleeps in harvest is a son of shame.
Power of isreall in USA? control freedom of protest in peace wow.. Rights isreall have it .not USA citizens wow.
Your group’s action was chaotic and anarchic and Anti-Israel and therefore Anti-Semitic. As a prof with muslim background, your words are understandable but you are in America. So behave.
Well, I guess that makes all my Jewish friends anti-Semitic too, huh?
How is zionism, all Jewish peoples?
Claiming that Israel represents all of the Jewish people is easily falsifiable and is antisemitic.
As far as anti war being chaotic, better look up what the term peace means.
Seems you weren’t paying attention to your vocabulary words in Grammer school.
Haha ! Tell that to idf !
To end 30,000 human lives in 6 mths is not anarchic to you ? These pro palestinian protests are meant to be disruptive, inorder to create a ripple in the collective concscience of America, which was once a great country but now heading towards doom & gloom. Be Proud of your Youth for doing this ! Being a Muslim you should be ashamed sir for even putting up this comment. Had you gotten a history heads up before u wud hv known Palestinians are Semites and Israel consists of Ashkenazi Jews from Europe ! There fore yesss ,this genocide is Anti semitic and who ever doesn’t side with an immediate ceasefire is therefore ANTI SEMITIC. Keep that in mind
Where’s is the freedom of speech. Peaceful protests are always welcome. Media are twisting and pushing their propaganda against the students
Liberalism can’t be upheld, without Palestinian freedoms, till than the healing can’t start.
they are not protesting
they are harassing jews students
The only Jewish students getting harassed are out in the encampments
There’s a lot of Jewish students in the crowd Protesting too.
Supporting Palestinians is not antisemitic
Condemning Israeli war crimes is not antisemitic.
So if it was Jewish students intimidating , harassing and threatening Palestinian students to the point it was unsafe for them on campus that’s be ok wouldn’t it ?
@davidmhale521 well israel has killed more than 15,000 children. Hamas didn’t.
There are no known “Israeli war crimes.” Get back with us when you have something real to condemn.
But supporting Hamas is ok? What an idiot
If you squat in someone’s home, the city will defend you but turn against Israel and they will evict you from the homes you paid for just like the Palestinians have been treated..
They are lucky to be in a western country 😂😂😂 we don’t care , good job police kick them out ungrateful LGBTQIA’s 😂😂
Stop Genocide in GAZA
There is none to stop.
There is a war.
From 75 years Israel killing thousands and thousands childrens this is the real story. Israeli army founded Hamas also true. Please try to know true. Israel already killing 8,000 childrens that is reality bro. As human we shoud stop killing people.
@@freyalove3831,that Gaza started in October; did they really think there wouldn’t be any consequences for their murdering and kidnapping Israelites?
The students are a beautyfull futur for usa
This is what the United States calls being the champion of democracy. If that is so, then Hiter was a champion of democracy too.
Comparing the formal Harvard principle vs this.
🇲🇨😮
Yes, the university should allow 24/7 protests against all the Islamic genocides against Christians throughout the world.
Democracy is dead in USA. Jeo Biden should resign ASAP.
America is complicit of Genocide
They should protest in DC
Why do all of these American university professors have foreign names?
America is a migrant country so these professors will have these foreign names, from Ben, Mike, Joshua to Bassam. Sadly the natives were massacred and kept in reservations so they are not educated as the immigrants. Maybe u should highlight this and get the government to pay reparation as well as allowing education places for them. Then u might see less foreign names and more native names like Tatanka Ptecila (Little Bull),Wambleeska (White eagle), Akecheta (Warrior).
‘foreign names’ ? We are ALL foreigners😂
For anyone who’s confused, Columbia University students are protesting against Columbia, NOT against America. They are protesting because Columbia’s currently investing in Israel’s defense forces and organizations that are supplying Israel with weaponry. This has nothing to do with Anti-Semitism, nor do these protests come from a place of hatred like what Conservative news outlets are trying to portray.
Human always with Palestinian people.thanks to all students for their humanity.
Biden administration has been hijacked by Netanyahu team.
Biden has no courage to stand against genocide. It is total moral failure of usa. Usa lost its dignity.
US IS FUNDING GENOCIDE IN GAZA WITH US DOLLARS. US IS MORE CONCERNED WITH PROTESTS OF THE GENOCIDE THAN THE GENOCIDE ITSELF. ALL THE SHAME ON US
Hate filled protesters. Not freedom of speech. The Islamic faith is evil like Hamas the terrorist group.
These bully protesters have been harassed Jewish people while walked into their classes.
Fkn idiots don’t even know what they’re protesting.
They sent an email that they are going to use force to get their tents off of the lawn
Real Heroes!
Jabbing a flag pole into a Jewish student is being a “hero”?
They are real human 3:38 demanding peace
The whole world is with them
I saw a sign that said “queer Jews for a liberated Palestine.” What do you think would happen to a queer Jew if he went to the Gaza strip? Or the West Bank? Or to any other Muslim country?
USA 🇺🇸 does NOT support Hamas , Islamic jihadists or Hezbollah ! 💀❌💀
You see? This is why you don’t give them money… now the homeless are occupying Columbia University! Lol
Deport palestinian student
I like how people are getting educated. Not the students, but who is waking up. So many rather be stupid, so it takes longer on them. They are seeing.
Setting up a campsite and trespassing on private property after being asked to leave is not protected under free speech.
These students are the future leaders of the United States. They will not forget how they were treated for protesting against genocide by the Israelis.
soros still very active recruiting thugs i see…
Now, we know why other Arab countries don’t let Palestinians into their countries.
Funded by QATAR, IRAN, RUSSIA, CHINA. Axis of evil.
These students are paying for 80 years of apathy by the American voters. The voters have allowed their government to turn the US into a terrorist and child killing nation.
Talk also about the freedom flotilla
God bless Code Pink! The oligarchy MUST be stopped💪
Talk about the concerted efforts all over the so called democratic liberal world to suppress demonstrations and all manners of support for the oppressed❤❤
These students will save palestinians.
So proud of you students! Let your voices ring out! This is YOUR Vietnam. Let’s live with our neighbors and NOT with the guilt of our poor decisions. Let’s fund Americans again, not foreign wars💪
Protest 🤟🏻
The state of Qatar donates billions of dollars to universities in the United States every year and is the financier of the terrorist organization Hamas, which massacred 1,200 people and kidnapped 120. Qatar also owns Al Gezira, which is the largest media network in the world.
Go students! ✊🏼🇵🇸
Animals
Respect for such great students.
Please Free Palestine from the genocidal Jews of Israel!!
It’s a private campus. That means police can be called without your permission, libtard.
Now Columbia discovers free speech? LOL!
Screaming angry masked protesters with the Palestinian flag as a head scarf honestly look like hamas terrorists
Why are they afraid to show their faces
AIPAC government doesn’t like freedom of speech and we seen how they got tiktok banned in America for exposing Isreal Holocaust on the Palestinians people
How much I admire these elite of our students. Yes, these are our future🥺. They apply what they studied theoretically at the university of the values of justice, humanity, and expression of opinion. They apply it practically in their peaceful demonstrations. With the truth, they are better than the old Biden who fulfills Netanyahu’s orders. The other old man fulfills Netanyahu’s orders out of fear for his position, as if they are Biden’s mafia gangs. And Netanyahu, what did they learn from the university?! Murder and racism