Students at New York University (NYU) have set up an anti-Israel protest encampment on campus, joining a growing movement of students across the country. The protesters are calling on the university to divest from the Jewish State and end its campaign across the Palestinian enclave.
The NYU protesters, united under the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition, are demanding that the university disclose and divest “its finances and endowment from weapons manufacturers and companies with an interest in the ‘Israeli occupation.'” They are also calling on the school to shut down its campus in Tel Aviv, which allows students to study politics, history, and religion in the Jewish state.
Along with the demands related to the war, the students are also asking that “racist” NYPD cops, whom they claim are trained by the Israeli military, be kicked off campus.
The demonstration at NYU is the latest to spring up in Manhattan after students at the New School hijacked a university lobby on Sunday to set up its own “Liberty Zone” at the Union Square campus. Both demonstrations were started in solidarity with the massive protest ongoing at Columbia, which was raided last week by NYPD cops in riot gear who arrested more than 100 protesters. Students, however, returned and rebuilt the Columbia encampment less than 24 hours later.
