April 30, 2024
Columbia suspends pro-Palestinian protesters after settlement talks break down
NEW YORK: Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to break up a protest camp on the New York campus after the Ivy League school declared an impasse in talks to end the polarizing demonstration. Nemat University President Minouche Shafik said in a statement that days of negotiations between student organizers and academic leaders failed to convince protesters to remove the dozens of tents they had set up to voice their opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza. The crackdown in Columbia, at the center of Gaza-related protests that have rocked US campuses in recent weeks, came


