Ten Arrested in Anti-Israel Protests at Barnard College
New York City police arrested 10 people during an anti-Israel protest on the Barnard College campus in Manhattan on Wednesday evening.
Protesters wearing kaffiyehs and masks demonstrated for hours at the campus’s Milstein Library. They paraded Palestinian flags, chanted anti-Israel slogans, wrote “Death to America” in the library guestbook, and handed out pamphlets from the Hamas Media Office that justified Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis and Jews.
Bomb threat: Around 8 p.m., the New York Police Department was called to investigate a bomb threat at the library, which protesters said was staged by college administration to end the demonstration. Administrators ordered students to evacuate the premises, and police threatened to arrest anyone who refused.
Protesters refused to evacuate. Sources told Fox News that at least 10 people were arrested, but the charges for their arrests were not given. nypd later said the bomb threat was cleared.
Giving in: The students were protesting the expulsion of three pro-Palestinian student protesters.
- Two students had been expelled after disrupting an Israeli history class at Columbia University, an affiliate of Barnard College, on January 27.
- Another student was expelled for partaking in a demonstration at Columbia’s Hamilton Hall last April.
On February 27, demonstrators broke into the college’s Milbank Hall, assaulted a security officer, and caused $30,000 in damage to school property.
Yesterday’s protests ended and demonstrators dispersed after administration officials agreed to meet with them over their demands.
Anti-Semitic education: America’s college campuses are rife with anti-Semitism. Protests have occurred at universities across the U.S. since the Israel-Hamas war began.
These students support Hamas and spread terrorist propaganda, but school administrators are doing little or nothing to stop them. Some even support the protesters.
Learn more: Read “The Sickness in American Universities.”
