Riot Police Dispersed Throughout Yale, Columbia Universities Amid Palestinian Protests

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Apr 23, 2024
Riot Police Dispersed Throughout Yale, Columbia Universities Amid Palestinian Protests
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Last night in New York City, protests turned violent as pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with the NYPD, leading to 150 arrests at NYU. And the antisemitic riots on college campuses continue to threaten the safety of Jewish students and faculty. Columbia University, where 100 rioters were arrested yesterday, is extending hybrid classes throughout the end of the semester to protect its students, and numerous arrests took place at Yale University.

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ABC News reports on Monday night’s chaos:
“More than 150 people were arrested at New York University on Monday night, police said, as pro-Palestinian protests spread on college campuses throughout the country.
Students, faculty and others were arrested after school officials asked the New York Police Department for help clearing a plaza on NYU’s Manhattan campus, police said. Many of those arrested were “still being processed through the night and most if not all will be released,” the department said. . . .
‘There is a pattern of behavior occurring on campuses across our nation, in which individuals attempt to occupy a space in defiance of school policy,’ Kaz Daughtry, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for operations, said in a social media post. ’Rest assured, in NYC the NYPD stands ready to address these prohibited and subsequently illegal actions whenever we are called upon.’”
Yesterday, we told you how Columbia sent its students home because the administration couldn’t provide a safe environment for them. Now hybrid classes are in place for the rest of the school year. Will there be a graduation ceremony for the seniors?
We’re having flashbacks to colleges during the early COVID-19 years when students were isolated and unable to interact with each other. We wonder if the COVID-19 isolation is connected to young people forgetting how to protest peacefully without attacking others and creating chaos.
This is the United States of America. We are a nation of laws. Why are school officials essentially giving up on trying to protect their students?
School officials used to take precautionary measures to protect their students instead of waiting until violence spirals out of control – putting students and faculty at risk.
And are we even talking about anonymous protests or anonymous chaos? When a mass number of people are arrested, it’s not just civil disobedience. These rioters came to commit violence, to injure others, and to bring attention to their issue – but not in a positive way. They’ve gone far beyond peaceful protest protected by the Constitution.
What’s happening right now on college campuses speaks to the importance of the next election. Are we going to be a nation that allows violent pro-Hamas riots to break out regularly? Or are we going to be a nation that respects civil dissent without turning to violence?
Unfortunately, chaos isn’t just occurring on college campuses – the Middle East is also in turmoil. And we’ve got a huge bombshell to report from a FOIA request that we originally filed after Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal debacle.
We have a letter from a leading NGO network to the State Department from August 1, 2021, regarding Biden’s forthcoming withdrawal from Afghanistan. The NGO network warned the State Department that if it did not change course, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would lead to a “great power competition with China and Russia and interference by Iran to exert nefarious influence in the region and undermine U.S. strategic and security interests.”
So basically, the letter became a fortuneteller, predicting everything that would unfold on the world stage during Biden’s presidency. Russia has invaded Ukraine, Iran has been wreaking havoc in the Middle East and against Israel, and China continues to exert more control.
The ACLJ will continue to hold the Biden Administration accountable for its failures to protect America and our allies. We will keep you informed as we find other documents of interest from our FOIA.
Today’s Sekulow broadcast included a full analysis of the violent protests on college campuses. ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell reacted to the lack of control by college administrations, and Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik discussed performing in Israel during Iran’s recent attack.

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