Footage From Anti-Israel Protests at Cornell Refutes Claims They Were Peaceful
“Three of the officers formed a barricade across the building’s sliding doors, briefly holding up their arms to provide resistance before protesters shoved past.”
The protesters actually shut down a career fair. It was pretty aggressive.
The Cornell Daily Sun reports:
Footage Shows Pro-Palestinian Protesters Push Past Police at Career Fair Disruption
Cornell has released footage of pro-Palestinian activists pushing past police at a Sept. 18 protest that shut down a career fair in Statler Hotel featuring defense contractors Boeing and L3Harris. The three-minute-long video, which includes footage from Cornell University Police Department officers’ body cameras and a main lobby camera, shows the moment when masked students breached the entrance and shut down the event.
The footage, released on Saturday, refutes claims from student activists that the protest was peaceful.
In the video, several CUPD officers can be seen guarding The Statler’s entrance. Three of the officers formed a barricade across the building’s sliding doors, briefly holding up their arms to provide resistance before protesters shoved past.
According to a statement by Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina, many community members had asked that video evidence of the “forceful entry” be made available.
“Having completed the preliminary criminal investigation of the event, we are providing video that shows initial forced entry at the Statler lobby and disruptive activity inside the Career Fair,” Malina wrote.
The University has stated that it has used photo and video evidence to identify and refer for disciplinary action 19 activists at the career fair disruption.
Here’s the video:
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So they basically trespassed after being warned.
At least I know that the University will discipline them accordingly…….why is everyone laughing?
they are forming the intifada in america
If college administrators would expel students for this kind of behavior, it would end. They don’t do it because they are afraid of their activist faculty. What is most disturbing about this is the underlying demand for these performative spectacles. These demonstrators are defending the right to slaughter Jews.
The irony about this is that the atrocities of October 7 were so visibly barbaric that the pro-Hamas demonstrators have to promote the worst kind of Jew hatred to justice what Hamas did on October 7.
My analysis has nothing to do with Gaza. Most Cornell students do not care about Gaza, but work hard to get a good job upon graduation. They prepare for job fair interviews with companies that have no connection to Gaza. Cornell staff organize career fairs to facilitate the hiring process. Companies spend resources to send staff to Ithaca for the career fair.
In essence, these protesters want to hold all of this innocent activity hostage to press their minority viewpoint on a national policy debate. The biased media reports describe the career fair as including L3Harris and Boeing. But the protesters shut down the career fair for many companies other than L3Harris and Boeing.
Given the protesters’ behavior, companies who were not at this particular career fair will have major reservations about spending money to have their recruiters visit Cornell in the future.
It is odd that the protesters show such concern for the collateral damage of civilians created by the IDF in Gaza, yet maximize the collateral damage they create in Ithaca.