Pro-Hamas protests are again ruled on a large university campus and students call for stronger action from managers.
Barnard College First -year Shoshana Aufzien criticized the handling of the incident by the school and said that the answer from the administration did not have urgency.
“The university condemned the incident. I thought their words were a bit faint,” Aufzien said on Friday “America’s News room. “” I am not looking for lip service. I want action. “
The protest broke out after several students had been deported Distribution of anti-Israel pamphlets And disrupt an Israeli history lesson last month. Protesters stormed a building on the Barnard campus, which is part of the education system of Columbia University and located next to the main campus of Columbia
Aufzien said that she had been overwhelmed by the protest and initially did not realize how serious the situation was.
“I had no idea that there would be a protest,” she said. “When I walked through the doors and saw a huge ‘free Palestine’ banner draped from the landing on the second floor, I assumed it was just a sit-in. I didn’t realize how violent it would be.”
Anti-Israeli demonstrators arrested at Barnard College after crowd becomes violent
Anti-Israeli demonstrators demonstrated in February 2025 at Barnard College. (Getty; X)
The small group of protesters, many of whom covered their faces with masks or traditional Keffiyehs from the middle, occupies the building and prevented students and employees from coming in. Allegedly a school employee is to the Hopital After being physically attacked.
While demonstrators accused Barnard employees of the harassment and pushing of students, the school administration tried to negotiate with the demonstrators. Discussions started when civil servants require the protesters to remove their facial cladding as a condition for further discussion.
Aufzien expressed frustration about how the school dealt with the impasse.
“Barnard spent hours negotiating with demonstrators, but the conditions of the negotiations should either have spread, or the current identification, or we call the police,” she said. “I am really disappointed, because admin literally likes handed over-handed protesters, Uit-Jail-free cards.”
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The demonstration is the last in a series of campus protests nationwide in response to the Israel-Hamas war. Columbia University had previously struggled to break a pro-Palestine camping on its property last year, which led to the massive arrest of more than 100 students and the dismissal of the President of the University.
A group of more than 50 anti-Israeli demonstrators took over a building from Barnard College and attacked an employee on Wednesday evening. (X/@Shoshanaufzien)
Aufzien warned that without serious consequences the situation could escalate such as last year’s protests.
“I literally just want to go to class. It is now the Midterm season,” she said. “(My parents) pay $ 95,000 a year so that I can be trained and I don’t even have access to that training. It is pathetic.”
She also emphasized the seriousness of the actions of the demonstrators.
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“Demonstrants took a dean hostage. They refused to let her go to the bathroom. And they hinded students to gain access to a course. That should be reason for not only conviction, but real change. And that is what I want to see, and I haven’t seen it yet.
Columbia University has issued a statement After the protest, you distant from Barnard, but confirm that “the disruption of academic activities is not acceptable behavior.”
