Welcome to Columbia: Keffiyeh-Clad Activists Chain Themselves to Campus Gate, Call for 'Intifada'

Welcome to Columbia: Keffiyeh-Clad Activists Chain Themselves to Campus Gate, Call for 'Intifada'


The group assembled to demand the names of the trustees who "collaborated" with the Trump administration, resulting in the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. Columbia’s Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter organized the protest, demanding "accountability from the trustees who collaborated in the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil," adding that they refuse to leave until Columbia hands over the names of the trustees who "colluded" with the Department of Homeland Security, according to an Instagram post. Members of the union handed out masks to protesters while Columbia’s Palestine Solidarity Coalition, a splinter group of the notoriously anti-Semitic Columbia University Apartheid Divest, called on students to "wear a mask on Monday to protest mask bans and the fascist trustees."

Author: Jessica Costescu


Published at: 2025-04-02 22:18:35

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