Urja Sinha, Jeff Arnold and Devan Markham
Newsnation, May 1, 2024
“There is a movement to radicalize young people. And I’m not going to wait until it is done to acknowledge the existence of it,” Adams said.”
Columbia University and several other universities across the United States are continuing to warn of potential outside agitators as students hold protests calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and a divestment from Israel.
The demand has its roots in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a decades-old campaign against Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. The movement took on new strength last month as the Israel-Hamas war surpassed its six-month mark and stories of suffering in Gaza sparked international calls for a cease-fire.
Campus protests turn violent
Pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. campuses have since turned violent since their peaceful beginnings, and there have been over 1,000 arrests. In the early morning hours of Wednesday, California law enforcement agencies started clearing protesters from an encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles campus after violent clashes broke out overnight between the pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters.
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