More than 100 anti-Israel activists have been detained at Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Washington following the arrest of campus-level officers.
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More than 100 pro-Hamas protesters threw themselves into Columbia’s Butler collection, making championships preparation students ‘ last-minute accommodations a necessity. At least 80 of the activists had their hands taken.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) was examining the identities of those detained and checking if any of the demonstrators who supported Hamas were non-citizens.  ,
Foreign school students in America have been put on notice by the state division that” we may withdraw your visa if you violate the law or assistance terrorism in our nation.” This management does not bear students who are not citizens and cause havoc on our college campuses.
This is a far cry from Columbia’s silence next year, when the university authorised the demonstrators to hold an administrative building, hold rooms, and threaten Israeli students and faculty. Following the protesters ‘ actions, the school requested assistance from the New York Police Department this time, which caused” considerable chaos” and “posed a serious risk to our students and school safety,” according to acting school president Claire Shipman in a speech.
What transpired? Donald Trump, in a nutshell.
Colleges and the left are debating the effectiveness of threatening colleges and universities with monetary losses. The truth is that the schools have had plenty of opportunities to make simple adjustments that may protect Jewish students, end discrimination against viewpoints that they disagree with, and uphold the civil rights regulations intended to stop race-based bias.  ,
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Protesters demanded on Monday that Boeing, an aerospace and defense business, be removed from the University of Washington in Seattle. About 30 people were detained, according to a school speech, and the demonstrators set fires to landfills and blocked access to the creating. According to the Washington State Standard, damage to one equipment room amounted to$ 1 million.
In response to the event, three national agencies announced the following morning that they would begin a review of the school’s governmental grants and contracts. The organizations wrote that the university should take more steps to prevent potential violence and ensure that Israeli students have a secure and effective learning environment.
Nine students were detained at Swarthmore College after Students for Justice in Palestine ( SJP) attempted to set up a tent camp. The school section had been suspended.
In a statement, the university’s leader, Val Smith, wrote,” I felt we had no option but to seek outside help from local law enforcement.” She claimed that non-student activists had attempted to encamp themselves.
Shipman claimed that when she visited Butler Library to assess the damage at Columbia, she saw two college security guards being cared for after being assaulted.
” As I left days later, I walked through the reading area, one of the many pearls of Butler Library, and I saw it damaged and defaced in disturbing way and with shocking mantras,” she said in her speech.
According to the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, Shipman’s speech was” solid and resolute,” adding that she “has stepped in to guide Columbia at a crucial stage and has met the moment with courage and faith.”
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The American people are urging the management to implement significant and legal commitments to maintain civil rights laws with institutions that receive tax dollars, the speech continued.” We concur with Acting President Shipman that what happened was wholly unacceptable,” the statement continued.
No, Columbia, you might not receive your$ 400,000 in grants back.
There has been a change in the way the university administration sees the protests, according to Katherine S. Cho, an assistant professor in higher education at Loyola University Chicago. They were a teaching moment last year, in Cho’s opinion.
Student protests are no longer seen as a mechanism of learning, conversation, and civic engagement at universities that are under high surveillance, which is a university like Columbia, but as problems that need to be stopped right away, she said.
The campuses are situated on a different planet than the rest of us. They might be brought back to Earth by the crackdowns.
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