anti israel activist Yale University in Connecticut set up a “liberation zone” in New York City on Saturday in solidarity with Columbia University.
This came after protesters at Columbia University were heard chanting pro-Hamas slogans, resulting in over a hundred arrests as they camped out on campus on Thursday and continued into Friday.
protestors at yale They were also seen holding a banner, reading “Liberated Zone”.
The video begins with the students holding the banner and placing it on the ground in front of several students. Other banners around the students read, “Stop Investing in Genocide,” “Jews for Armistice Now,” “Yale is Guilty,” and “Stop Genocide.”
Yale protesters set up a liberation zone camp in solidarity with Columbia University (FNTV)
The video also shows a woman and a man playing drums, before the man stands up and starts blowing his horn.
In another shot, protesters were captured marching across the campus holding placards and chanting their demands.
They chanted, “Up with liberation, up. Down with occupation, down.”
Protesters at Yale marched across campus chanting “Free, Free, Free Palestine” and other slogans. (FNTV)
“Down with genocide, down with. Free, free, free Palestine,” the protesters continued, as they held signs reading “Shame” and “Free Palestine.”
Tents were set up in a communal area, and people outside the tents could hear the chanting.
Then, a Jewish man was seen talking to a man wearing a shirt that read, “F–k Hamas.”
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A man trying to record a protest at Yale University on April 20, 2024 is harassed by activists who used umbrellas and flags to prevent him from watching the activity. (FNTV)
The man wearing the shirt attempted to record the protest while walking among the protesters, but they began following him by blocking his gaze and throwing flags and umbrellas in his face.
Cornell Law professor William Jacobson, who has been studying the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for nearly 15 years, told Fox News Digital that protests at Ivy League universities like Columbia and Yale are reminiscent of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011. Reminds me of. During the movement, protesters raised issues such as economic inequality, corporate greed and how money influences politics, while setting up a camp in Zuccotti Park in the financial district. District in New York City,
Jacobson said, “Here it’s a different theme, but it’s really the same theme. I mean, it’s an anti-capitalist movement. It’s about movement. It’s a ‘break our society’ movement.” “I think it’s basically a similar phenomenon directed toward Israel as the object of their hatred rather than toward Wall Street or anything else.”
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Protestors at Yale University set up an encampment on campus on April 20, 2024. (FNTV)
He said that, although the protesters at Yale established a “free zone”, it does not actually mean that they are freed from anything because they still have systems in place to provide water, food and other things. Depend on.
Jacobson also said she feels the protests reflect the BDS movement as well as her more than 20 years of “gross oppression” of Israeli Jews on campuses through the radical faculty members found on most campuses across the US, particularly Columbia. Result of “dehumanization”.
While covering the BDS movement, Jacobson found that the boycott was just one tactic. He said that at first he never understood that it was just a strategy, but then it became successful.
Yale protesters stage a encampment to boycott the occupation of Gaza by Israel. (FNTV)
“They don’t really care if you boycott Chablis in the dining hall. They don’t really care about those things,” Jacobson said. “All they care about is that the entire campus spends 3 or 4 months debating how evil Israel is, and if they lose the vote, they declare victory anyway.”
Ultimately, he said that the anti-capitalism movement focuses on Israel, resulting in the dehumanization of Jews because Jews support Israel.
However, according to the Cornell law professor, there are other factors at play in the protests.
There may be a psychological aspect affecting students as they are told that they have to go into debt to get into specific colleges, only to later discover that their dreams have been crushed by the system that created them Have been tempted to take huge loans.
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Pro-Palestine protesters demonstrate at an NYPD police line outside the campus of Columbia University on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in New York City. Several students were arrested by officials while removing an encroachment on the campus lawn. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
Then there are those who did not take loans but could not find a solid career path.
“I think there are a lot of different things going on and Israel and Jews are a convenient scapegoat, as has historically been the case,” Jacobson said.
Nearly 500 students were seen protesting at Columbia University on Saturday night, just two days after tensions reached a fever pitch when the New York City Police Department arrested 108 people who refused to leave a camp set up on the main lawn. Had given.
Isra Hirsi, D-Minn., the daughter of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, was also arrested during protests on Thursday. According to sources, Hirsi was taken into custody, placed in flex cuffs or zip ties and will face trespassing charges.
Earlier that day, Hirsi said she had been suspended from Barnard College, located near Columbia, for “standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing genocide.”
The Columbia Spectator, a student newspaper, reported, “While suspended Columbia students can remain in their individual rooms in their residence halls, suspended Barnard students have been evicted from their college housing.”
Social media posts also showed several New York City Council members arriving to watch the ongoing protests.
While protests continue at Columbia, Jacobson said that the BDS referendum was sent to the Cornell University student body for a vote, although the results were not immediately known to the faculty.
Yet such actions were seen Columbia, Yale And many other campuses across America are, as Jacobson put it, “sedentary movements.”
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“I don’t think there’s really any future for them because they’re built around breaking things,” he said. “They don’t have any positive agenda. Their agenda is to break things down, and I think people need to understand that these protesters, who are clearly anti-Israel, are also anti-American.
“It’s almost a complete overlap between anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-capitalist protesters,” he said. “That’s what this movement is about. It’s not just about the war in Gaza.”
Fox News Digital’s Bree Stimson, Lewis Casciano, Alexis McAdams and CB Cotton contributed to this report.
