Columbia takes disciplinary action months after anti-Israel agitators seized campus building

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Columbia University officials person yet taken disciplinary enactment against anti-Israel agitators who broke into Hamilton Hall connected the school's New York City field successful April 2024, with immoderate getting suspended and others getting expelled.

The Columbia University Apartheid Divest radical said successful a property merchandise Monday that Barnard College, which is portion of Columbia University, expelled 3 students.

One pupil was expelled for participating successful the concern past April, portion different was suspended for their involvement.

Barnard besides expelled 2 students for disrupting a people called the "History of Modern Israel." The duo allegedly wore headscarves to fell their faces erstwhile they ran into the schoolroom and threw antisemitic pamphlets astir the room.

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Arrested demonstrator escorted retired  of Hamilton Hall by NYPD

New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian agitators astatine Columbia University aft they barricaded themselves astatine the Hamilton Hall gathering connected April 30, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Fox News reached retired to the college, and officials said they cannot remark connected disciplinary action. Instead, they said they volition ever bash what is right, not what is easy.

"Under national law, we cannot remark connected the world and disciplinary records of students. That said, arsenic a substance of rule and policy, Barnard volition ever instrumentality decisive enactment to support our assemblage arsenic a spot wherever learning thrives, individuals consciousness safe, and higher acquisition is celebrated," Barnard President Laura Rosenbury said successful a statement. "This means upholding the highest standards and acting erstwhile those standards are threatened.

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Maintenance unit  confronts protesters

A attraction unit subordinate confronts agitators attempting to barricade themselves wrong Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University connected April 30, 2024 successful New York City.  (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

"When rules are broken, erstwhile determination is nary remorse, nary reflection, and nary willingness to change, we indispensable act. Expulsion is ever an bonzer measure, but truthful excessively is our committedness to respect, inclusion, and the integrity of the world experience," she added. "At Barnard, we ever fiercely support our values. At Barnard, we ever cull harassment and favoritism successful each forms. And astatine Barnard, we ever bash what is right, not what is easy."

Last spring, constabulary made dozens of arrests astatine Columbia University's Hamilton Hall gathering and astatine a abstracted objection astatine the City College of New York; astir fractional of the suspects were non-students, authorities said astatine the time.

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protesters astatine  Columbia University

Anti-Israel students fastener arms, sing and chant arsenic they braced for New York Police Department officers to raid field aft Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called connected the NYPD to dismantle encampments and region individuals from Hamilton Hall, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, successful New York. (Seyma Bayram via AP)

Demonstrators smashed windows, blocked windows and doors with chains and furnishings and were seen covering their faces with keffiyehs earlier constabulary took them into custody. Outside, they maintained a structure encampment for weeks.

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The schoolhouse faced disapproval implicit its effect to the agitators, who acceptable up campy connected a tract and were accused of starting antisemitic confrontations. Some module members defended the radical and adjacent blocked different students and members of the property from entering their encampment.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.

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