Protests erupt at NYC colleges responding to Israel-Hamas war
Protests and counterprotests over the bloody war in the Middle East erupted at colleges across the five boroughs Thursday as supporters of Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates clashed over the ongoing violence that broke out last week.
About 10 counter protesters waving Israeli flags stood several feet away. Both groups were sectioned off by NYPD barricades. More than 50 law enforcement officials were stationed within a three-block radius of the rally.At Hunter College later in the afternoon, about 200 people turned out to a rally for Palestinian rights and resistance organized by the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, a CUNY Hunter College student group.
Palestinian Amin Othman, 24, was at the rally to protest Israeli violence in Gaza. He has lived in the United States for three years. The Hunter College pro-Palestinian rally was made up of a diverse crowd: a Cuban student supporter chatted with an Iranian student, and at one point a chant of, “Africans for Palestine” erupted.Uptown at Columbia University, the sun set over a charged and divided campus Thursday evening, where tensions were seen bubbling over across campus after hundreds of students turned out on the college’s main lawn for dueling protests that both started at 4:30 p.m., and stretched into evening.
On the west side of the field, Students Supporting Israel organized a dueling “silent protest” which was broken by students singing, arm-in-arm.
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