The Columbia president highlights the need for dialogue and values, condemns the Hamilton Hall occupation.
Some students received training from activists in Samidoun, which has been considered a terrorist organization in Israel since 2021 and Germany since 2023.
National Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine are currently getting sued by nine American and Israeli survivors and victims of the Oct. 7 Massacre.
The report claimed that student governments and universities were leaving SJP unchecked, allowing the group to pose a "threat to the safety and well-being of Jewish and pro-Israel individuals."
“It is time that Hamas and all of its agents, like AMP and NSJP, be held responsible for their horrific actions,” the victims said in a joint statement on Wednesday.“
SJP decries attempt to have their encampment disbanded.
A lawsuit by Palestine Legal demands Columbia reverse students' suspensions, drop charges against them, expunge their records, and offer to pay for their psychotherapy.
Meanwhile, the University of Southern California announced Thursday that it was canceling its graduation ceremony altogether, shortly after it barred its valedictorian from speaking.
The new encampments join campus occupations at Yale University, MIT, Tufts University, The New School, the University of Michigan, and others.
A US congressional committee on Wednesday accused Columbia University's president of failing to protect Jewish students on campus.
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