'Very tense', 'scary' atmosphere at Columbia: Student who saw protests speaks out

It’s just a tough situation with victims on both sides. On one side, you’ve got people being massacred and siege warfare, while on the other you’ve got people whose feelings get hurt when those atrocities are opposed. Hard to say which is worse. - Caitlin Johnstone

Defending a lie disturbs the soul !! Pure evil. The world knows the world is with Palestine.

NYPD did a professional job.

Very heavy metal tables?!? The horror!!

The protesters remind me of January 6th

An Islamic fatwa has condemned the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. “Hamas treats millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip inhumanely. Islam forbids supporting Hamas, joining Hamas and praying for Hamas!” This is an unprecedented ruling against Hamas by one of the most important institutions in the Muslim world. The Islamic Fatwa Council, a non-governmental organization of Shia, Sunni and other Muslim clergy based in the city of Najaf, Iraq, recently issued an Islamic ruling, called a fatwa, against the brutal Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. The members of the Islamic Fatwa Council called on Hamas to lay down their arms and finally make peace. The fatwa sees the Hamas regime as responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. “Hamas bears responsibility for the corruption and terror against Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip. It is forbidden to pray, join, support, finance or fight for Hamas on behalf of Hamas.”

This is worse than J6

It sucks that it took October 7th to happen for me to understand what Palestinians are going through. I cant imagine what went on before October 7th.

No Safe Space for those Students who want to go on Studing!!

Right on the mark Jessica Schwab, thank you, there were definitely outside agitators and they looked well, far from being students, scary, they definitely have collaborators inside, students, faculty, or employees. In the initial part of the protest, before the protest attracted the news before the president of Columbia was summoned by Congress, the protesters were already there and surely those outside agitators would already figured entry points and would have had help with IDs, how to sneak into buildings. These would have been figured out initially by those outside agitators and those who collaborated with them. There were tents and I can't imagine why there were tents but no way of knowing the identity of those sleeping in those tents, what security measures were taken ? There might be a good explanation anyway.

Ben Solomon, maybe you and the other Jewish students should join the class action lawsuit against Columbia University. And those Jewish students at UCLA, I think you also have legal grounds and proof on film of incidents that prove your point for a class action lawsuit as well. When your university cashed your tuition checks, money changed hands creating a contract between you and the university. You would go to class, follow campus rules and get your education. The university would provide a safe, learning environment free of violence and harassment, and a good education. You've done your part, the university has failed it's part. And at UCLA, there is film of Jewish students being blocked from entering campus to attend their class and a campus guard watching as pro-Palestinian protestors shifted position to continually block him, even after he requested they let him in and showed all of them his student I.D.

The list of everyone that was arrested should go public. 99% of them were not students

She is a good reporter. That was very informative. I'm not for how the Palestinians are being treated by any means but I don't want to see Jewish people hurt either. Netanyahu is a nut case. and should be stopped.

AIPAC: How do we hijack the messaging and make it all about scary Arabs taking over America!?! MSNBC: I got you..

1:27 cuz she knows all the faces on campus? But also knows what the ‘professional burglars’ look like… that’s some juvenile observations

Many parts of out society is already fascist.

News reporter focus on quote "outside agitators" is a propaganda ploy. First of all, it's a total insult to the Columbia College students, which essentially says they can't think on their own, believe on their own, act on their own. It's a disgusting slander. Secondly, so what if the students accepted assistance from some who are more trained in the tactic of Civil Disobedience? Does that delegitimize the College Students protest -- oh, I forget! That's the entire purpose of the "outside agitator -- propanganda news. When the South lost the Civil War, the North passed the Freedmans Bureau bill to set up schools and agencies in the South to train 5 million newly freed slaves. The Southerners called these young teachers, coming down from the North to train the newly freed slaves on how to live as free citizens, "Carpetbaggers" or if you will "Outside agitators." It's a common tactic of the oppressor. Any one who helps fight the oppressor is an "outside agitator." Our American leadership and the Media, state and federal, have been an utter failure when it comes to standing up for Humanitarian law. Because they are defending the indefensible -- Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of an oppressed people! The College Students, God bless them, see this BS Hypocrisy and are reacting against it on their own initiative! Yes, they may get some civil disobedience training on how to do it without getting themselves hurt or significantly breaking the law; But, being trained to do it right, is not to be praised! Instead American leadership and the mainstream media mob would prefer to smear the College Students with the false charge of antisemitism; they should be praising them for asserting their first amendment rights to fight against the killing of children in the thousands in Gaza! But they don't want to do that, because they are supplying the arms and funds for the slaughter. It's disgusting. There are always going to be "bad apples" (we always say that about crooked police violence) in any bunch, the way the Media Mob has gone out of its way to delegitimize the College Student's cause is a wonder to behold -- especially the so-called progressive MSNBC.

You get what you vote for, so why they crying. 😆

Remember when everyone was attacking the anti war protest on the eve of the Iraq invasion… Stay humble!

Why is Israel so much more important than Americans to America? So much so though we must sell our soul to defend their atrocities? I never agreed to that deal.