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Jewish students at Columbia protest against Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by chaining and locking themselves to the gates of the university

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Listen in to the student protesters themselves

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@DropSiteNews Update: Within minutes, Columbia’s campus security has now cordoned off the area and is refusing to allow anyone - students, staff or faculty - from entering the space.

Video to follow.

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@DropSiteNews Columbia campus security cordon off the area with ‘Caution’ signs, restrict entry of individuals into the protest site

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@DropSiteNews Chants of “Free Mahmoud, Free Them All” ring through the air as more protesters join (from outside the cordon imposed by Columbia University campus security) - video to follow

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@DropSiteNews Palestine flag being raised at the protest led by Jewish protesters at Columbia University

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@DropSiteNews NYPD arrives outside Columbia’s campus within 45 minutes of the protest beginning.

@DropSiteNews A Jewish student protester at Columbia University wearing a watermelon kippah and a keffiyeh as they sit chained to the gates of the university in protest against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and the repression faced by other pro-Palestine protesters.

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@DropSiteNews Breaking: Columbia campus security bring giant bolt cutters to forcibly break the student protesters away from the Columbia gates they had chained themselves to.

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@DropSiteNews Breaking: In sudden escalation, Columbia campus security aggressively engage student protesters, try to snatch banner that says “Free Mahmoud Khalil” from them.

Patrick Oakley, Director of Public Safety (Operations & Investigations) was in the cohort that did this
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@DropSiteNews Pro-Palestine protesters put up pictures of Hind Rajab outside the site of today’s demonstration at Columbia University. The stickers read, “Israel and USA murdered six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab with 335 bullets”.

Close to a year after ‘Hind’s Hall’.

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@DropSiteNews “Free Palestine” and “Free Mahmoud Now” banners on either side, the Palestine flag hung on the gate, as Jewish students at Columbia continue their protest outside after being forced out of the campus by university security.

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@DropSiteNews The protesters have changed their location, but the protest continues - now on the opposite side of Columbia’s campus.

A new group of Jewish students at the university have chained themselves to the railing, with other students joining them.

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@DropSiteNews A Jewish student protester tells me, “No matter how many students you repress, there are still students on campus who stand with Mahmoud Khalil.”

The protest has now been on for 6 hours and 38 minutes. And counting.

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@DropSiteNews A Jewish student protester tells me, “No matter how many students you repress, there are still students on campus who stand with Mahmoud Khalil.”

The protest has now been on for 7 hours and 8 minutes. And counting.

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@DropSiteNews More protesters join in outside Columbia, those at the sit-in inside and right outside campus brace for rain - chants of “Free Mahmoud Khalil now” continue, with the NYPD watching on.

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@DropSiteNews Update: Columbia campus security yank off the tarpaulin used by student protesters inside the campus to cover themselves from the rain.

Once again, Patrick Oakley, Director of Columbia Public Safety is present.

Video shared by journalist Sacha Biazzo @essebbi

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@DropSiteNews @essebbi 10 hours and 22 minutes. And counting. The protest at Columbia continues. Inside and right outside the campus.

A sizable number of protesters present, the chants still carry on.

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@DropSiteNews @essebbi Breaking: Palestinian-American student Maryam Alwan alleges that Columbia campus security hurt her physically while using a massive bolt cutter during an attempt to forcibly remove her from the protest. She was then dragged by security before she could get up. @DropSiteNews

@DropSiteNews @essebbi WATCH: Palestinian-American student at Columbia, Maryam Alwan, recounts her experience being forcibly removed by the university’s campus security staff, says she was physically hurt in the process.

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