04/30/2024

Columbia University Threatens to Expel Protesters Occupying Building

Shortly after 12 a.m. Tuesday, protesters broke into a campus building

Columbia University officials threatened to expel activists on Tuesday after they seized and occupied an academic building as the standoff between administrators and student protesters intensified.

Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, protesters broke windows and entered Hamilton Hall, where they unfurled a banner reading "Hind's Hall," symbolically renaming the building for a six-year-old Palestinian child killed in Gaza by the Israeli military.

Outside the academic building - the site of various student occupations dating back to the 1960s - protesters blocked the entrance with tables, linked arms to form a barricade and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.

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