Activists occupy Columbia University building | DW News

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Published 2024-04-30
Columbia University officials threatened academic expulsion of students who seized and occupied a classroom building, intensifying a nearly two-week standoff between administrators and pro-Palestinian activists on the Manhattan campus.

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00:00 Introduction
01:48 Ethan Bearman, Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School
08:24 Benjamin Alvarez Gruber, DW Correspondent

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All Comments (21)
  • @Eusantdac
    So the guy says at 3:35 that "there has been some speculation and I don't know if there is anything founded in it ..." then, he continues with the rumours which he just said he did not know that they were true. What a bunch of bs ... let's talk about rumours because this is the news nowadays: unfounded rumours.
  • Why does DW always bring an pro-Israeli Interviewer, why not pro-Palestinian or even a neutral? Biased!!
  • @Vybyqy
    Students have the right to protest and should make their voices heard, but covering their faces and forcibly occupying the building is crossing the line. The school was waiting for them to cross the line.....
  • If your from the US and Iran is cheering you on… you might want to ask yourself some questions kids
  • @paulcock8929
    I would like to see the DNA of Ethan Bearman, to see if he really belongs to the people who were removed from Palestine in Roman times. He looks quite Germanic to me.
  • @jordanp5469
    The German reaction to this war is yet another example of their tolerance for atrocities. It's shameful.
  • @happymelon7129
    Never before had the police been able to dismantle a tent so quickly. They can also help dismantle tents on the streets.
  • You cannot call urself OPPRESSED when u constantly refuse peace. The Palestinians refused the peace proposals offered in 2000 and 2008, which included a Palestinian state in the entire West Bank and Gaza. Instead, they chose to attack Israel time after time so what is Israel supposed to do? And even if you think all those proposals were unfair - then where is the Palestinians' proposal? I've never seen it.
  • @foxerhu5127
    Remember what did they say when there was a riot in hong kong China several years ago? Such bi-standarded politicians.
  • @Kohen124
    "After all, they were not pro-Palestinian students but another extension of the Hamas terrorist group, their behavior was exposed."
  • @n.g.l.
    I just need help understanding why disrupting someone else’s education is going to stop this war? With all these supporters why don’t they just go out and fight like the ppl did for the war in Ukraine?
  • "Taking a jab at Washington, India on Thursday (April 25) implied that the US, which arrested scores of university students protesting the Gaza war, should be less critical of “other fellow democracies” and stated that America will be “judged by what [it does] at home and not what [it says] abroad”.
  • sad thing is these kids just don't know their history. It's good to have active youth against injustice, but this is simply NOT THE CASE.