a Columbia student organizer on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment – Mondoweiss

One week ago hundreds of students at Columbia University set up Solidarity Encampment to protest the school’s connection to Israel’s war on Gaza.

In recent days students have been suspended and arrested, while pro-Israel groups have pushed for the National Guard or the NYPD to shut the protest down. The movement has also spread across the country. MIT, Tufts, Emerson College, NYU, The New School, the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, Brown, USC, and the University of North Carolina are just some of the schools where students…