Isra Hirsi On the Resilience of Columbia University’s Pro-Palestinian Protests

On Wednesday, students at Columbia University and its women’s college, Barnard, pitched tents on the lawns at the school’s campus commons. They planned to stay until Columbia divested from companies that “profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine,” as an Instagram page for Columbia University Apartheid Divest put it. But Columbia had no intention of allowing students [...]