Anti-Israel Student Activists Take Over Welcome Center at New School in NYC
“We need all support to join the picket, drop off food and supplies, and strengthen the barricades established on the doors!!!!!!”
These building takeovers keep happening because they’re being allowed to happen.
Campus Reform reports:
Pro-BDS student activists occupy New School welcome center in protest of Israel
Anti-Israel student groups at The New School in Manhattan recently took over a welcome center following the school shutting down the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
In an Instagram post on May 14, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter stated its reasoning for taking over the center: “We demand a vote by the Investment Committee now. The process of divestment can take place and be figured out by [Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility] later, but the commitment to divest cannot wait any longer.”
In another post, the The New School for Palestine chapter urged students and faculty to swarm the building in order to support the ongoing occupation, saying: “Students, staff, and faculty have occupied the Welcome Center, now known as LAMA CENTER, honoring Lama Jamous of Gaza. We need all support to join the picket, drop off food and supplies, and strengthen the barricades established on the doors!!!!!!”
In images taken by Campus Reform, a banner with the words “Lama Jamous Center” were unfurled on the main entrance to the building while students marched outside holding pro-Palestine banners and flags.
Additionally, students in vests were seen barricading the doors to the center while other students inside were reportedly occupying the building.
Multiple NYPD officers were present while people walking past the demonstration on the street were being ushered to stay on the sidewalk and to walk between the demonstration and the building itself.
In addition to the building being occupied by the pro-Hamas protesters, faculty and staff at The New School established their own “Refaat Alareer Faculty Solidarity Encampment” in place of where the previous student-run encampment was held inside of the main lobby of the university.
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This is more than ironic. In the 1930s, The New School was a refuge for Jewish scholars from Nazi Germany. The refugee Jewish scholars became the heart of the The New School.
Wiki: The New School.
Will the New School, which provided refuge to Jewish scholars fleeing Nazi Germany, have the strength to stand up to these 21st century Nazis?
“These building takeovers keep happening because they’re being allowed to happen.”
Very true words. The University needs to go in with force to remove the students. Non-students should be prosecuted for criminal trespass. Students need to be expelled. Any staff needs to be fired.
Don’t give students and staff a pass. Prosecute them for both criminal trespass (and any other crimes committed) plus civil damages.
“Anti-Israel Student Activists Take Over Welcome Center”
“Hello, I must be going!”