Student protestors storm and occupy Columbia building

In the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide, dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday. Video footage showed protesters on the university’s Manhattan campus locking arms in front of Hamilton Hall, carrying furniture and metal barricades to the building. Hamilton Hall was one of several buildings that was occupied during a 1968 civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protest on the campus.

Posts on an Instagram page for protest organizers shortly after midnight urged people to protect the encampment and join them at Hamilton Hall. They barricaded the entrances and unfurled a Palestinian flag out of a window. They also displayed banners from a window reading “Intifada”, the Arabic word for an uprising. “An autonomous group reclaimed Hind’s Hall, previously known as “Hamilton Hall,” in honor of Hind Rajab, a martyr murdered at the hands of the genocidal Israeli state at the age of six years old,” CU Apartheid Divest posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Outside Hamilton Hall, students were chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Palestine will live forever.” Representatives for the university confirmed the occupation and warned students to stay away from the Morningside campus, adding that essential personnel should report to work.

Overnight, the pro-terror mob took over Hamilton Hall at @Columbia University posting on social media that they have “taken matters into their own hands.”

The mob used metal gates to barricade the doors, blocked entrances with wooden tables and chairs, and zip-tyed doors shut.… pic.twitter.com/Rbiff4X7sj

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 30, 2024

BREAKING:

Anti-Israel protesters are physically assaulting Jewish students at Columbia University.

One of the students tells a masked protester “what you are doing is 100% an assault”

The police is nowhere to be seen pic.twitter.com/ABnXqSsm6C

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 30, 2024

Pro-Palestinian mob shatter the glasses of @Columbia‘s main building and occupy it 👇

Churchill said: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

The 🇵🇸 crocodile is now eating @Columbia too.
pic.twitter.com/MHRtjO5Rlb

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) April 30, 2024