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Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrested (www.wsws.org)

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... Columbia University administrators called in the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Wednesday evening to violently suppress and shut down a pro-Palestinian student occupation of the campus’ Butler Library. Approximately 78 protesters were arrested just over a year after the police-state crackdown at Columbia last April, when the NYPD swarmed the campus to arrest over 100 students and break up the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

On Wednesday afternoon, a group of around 100 anti-genocide student protesters took over Butler’s main reading room and renamed it the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” after the Palestinian activist and writer killed by Israeli forces in 2017.

The students’ demands include Columbia’s financial divestment from Zionist organizations, an academic boycott of complicit institutions, cops and ICE off campus and amnesty for all university members unfairly targeted and disciplined for pro-Palestinian actions.

Columbia’s Public Safety officers immediately responded and violently barred protesters from leaving unless they showed identification, which created a prolonged standoff...

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 120 points 3 months ago (9 children)

If peaceful protest is going to be consistently met with violent police response; maybe they should stop being peaceful from the outset.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I wonder how long it will take for enough to realise their government is not compatible with protests. Peer pressure does not encourage authoritarians.

[–] xintrik@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

The running platform was making empathetic people angry; small scale protests are a badge of honor and large scale protests are a mild annoyance to be dealt with however they deem fit.

[–] standarduser@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It won’t happen at this rate. Last thing that was closest to that was the CHOP zone in Seattle a few years ago. And that still fell through. Most protest folks that participate won’t fight back since most are against baring arms and only want it to be via peace since they are too afraid to die for something. They will shift that fear on to their peers and react as well with “I don’t want to have people miss me” or “I don’t have the time to up and remove my life from what I’ve worked towards so far”

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[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If security shows up to stop protestors from leaving, they aren't there to secure the peace, they are there to oppress.

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[+] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Taking over a building is on the far end of "peaceful".

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The majority of protests involve taking over space temporarily; that alone doesn't make them not peaceful.

They weren't invading/forcing their way into spaces that they weren't already openly invited to be in, nor were they violent towards officials that were demanding they leave (self-defense aside).

[+] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I specifically didn't say they were being violent. When asked to leave their presence becomes trespass. Being somewhere you aren't supposed to be gets to the far side of "peaceful". You're not violent, maybe, but you're not lawful either. At that point the police are within their right to remove you.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Peaceful does not mean lawful. You can peacefully break the law.

The law is not always right - that is why it has the facility to be changed - and when laws are wrong it is a good citizen's duty to break them, as that is the first step to changing them.

[+] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Peaceful does not mean lawful. You can peacefully break the law.

Sure.... But...

The law is not always right - that is why it has the facility to be changed - and when laws are wrong it is a good citizen's duty to break them, as that is the first step to changing them.

Don't be vague. We're talking about trespassing. Somebody peaceably trespassing in your living room would be a pretty big deal.

It's fine that they protested, but expect to be arrested when you refuse to vacate a building you're trespassing in.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fun fact: trespassing isn't even a crime everywhere, not on its own. Also, trespassing doesn't occur automatically, in a nutshell you have to be notified and then remain on the property in spite of notice - this is why No Trespassing signs are a thing, they serve as notice.

Here, the students had every right to be there so were only trespassing after they were told to leave but remained. You're absolutely right that they should expect to be arrested after this point. However, they should not expect nor do they deserve to be assaulted by police acting unlawfully (yet apparently shielded by the legal system).

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

You have literally said you are for the armement of Israel. Of course any protest against Israel is too violent for you.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 months ago (9 children)

The students’ demands include Columbia’s financial divestment from Zionist organizations, an academic boycott of complicit institutions, cops and ICE off campus and amnesty for all university members unfairly targeted and disciplined for pro-Palestinian actions.

Not a single one of which wouldn't be a given in a sane and civilized modern society.

Columbia’s Public Safety officers immediately responded and violently barred protesters from leaving unless they showed identification, which created a prolonged standoff...

Because of COURSE they did!

When it comes to Apartheid regimes (and indeed most big picture stuff), student protesters are always on the right side of history and the people who derive income directly dependent on the atrocities continuing always react with the subtlety and intelligence of trying to remove a splinter with a machete.

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[–] Legge@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Columbia is speedrunning fastest university decline in the public eye

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Not the first time they did this

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

I gotta say, Hong Kongers put up way more of a fight than Americans seem to be. Hong Kong Polytechnic University went through a full blown siege in 2019. Six years later, in the land of the free, student leaders get picked off and any protests that manage to get going are easily crushed by the police.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are people still applying to go to school there?

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 3 months ago

zionists who want a chance to sue for discrimination. imagine their shock if their entire class shows up wearing Israeli flags etc. the disappointment.

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" -JFK

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

If trump admin is smart enough, they will bus police from other states to go to New York, learn and practice, trump will soon have his Schutzstaffel

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

I'll bet Columbia's fall enrollment will be greatly decreased. If I was a student there, I'd definitely be going somewhere else in the fall.

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