Daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrested at Columbia University protests

The girl of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard was among those arrested astatine the latest Columbia University protests, marking the latest improvement successful the anti-war demonstrations that besides led to the impermanent suspension of pupil journalists.

On Friday, the New York Post reported that 18-year-old Ramona Sarsgaard – a Columbia freshman – was arrested during Wednesday’s field protests wherever students demonstrated against Israel’s deadly warfare successful Gaza.

Sarsgaard was fixed a table quality summons for transgression trespassing, the outlet reported, citing radical acquainted with the matter. The assemblage did not instantly respond to a petition for remark astir the Post’s report.

Related: Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested aft Columbia calls successful police

The apprehension of Sarsgaard, on with dozens of others, came aft anti-war pupil activists occupied portion of the main Butler room gathering connected Columbia University for respective hours successful a amusement of solidarity with Palestinian liberation.

Renaming the abstraction the Basel al-Araj People’s University, the students hung a motion that work “Strike for Gaza” portion others distributed pamphlets calling connected the assemblage to divest from funds and businesses progressive successful Israel’s warfare there. Videos posted connected societal media showed students besides locking arms and chanting: “We person thing to suffer but our chains!”

In response, assemblage officials called successful the police, starring to galore students being forcefully arrested. A connection connected Wednesday from the university’s acting president, Claire Shipman, said: “Disruptions to our world activities volition not beryllium tolerated and are violations of our rules and policies; this is particularly unacceptable portion our students survey and hole for last exams.”

Meanwhile, a abstracted connection connected societal media from pupil activists said: “We are facing 1 of the largest militarized constabulary forces successful the world. Deputized nationalist information officers person choked and beaten us, but we person not wavered … We volition not beryllium useless intellectuals. Palestine is our compass, and we basal beardown successful the look of convulsive repression.”

After the protests, Columbia University and its sister schoolhouse Barnard College issued impermanent suspensions to 4 pupil journalists who reported connected the demonstrations astatine the room for Columbia Spectator and WKCR. The Columbia Spectator reported that the students identified themselves arsenic property to nationalist information officers.

According to the outlet, the students received email notices of their impermanent suspensions connected Thursday day from rules head Gregory Wawro and Barnard dean Leslie Grinage. In his email to 1 of the pupil reporters, Wawro said the pupil whitethorn person “participated successful a disruptive protestation successful 301 Butler Library”.

Grinage wrote to the 3 different pupil reporters saying that their “alleged actions astatine Butler Library airs an ongoing menace of disruption of, oregon interference with, mean operations astatine some Barnard and Columbia”.

Columbia University lifted its impermanent suspension of 1 of the pupil reporters astir 5 hours aft the archetypal notification, the Columbia Spectator reports. At astir 9am connected Friday, Barnard College lifted the suspensions of the 3 different pupil journalists.

The latest question of student-led anti-war demonstrations astatine Columbia University travel amid the the Trump administration’s sweeping crackdowns connected pupil protests and escaped code crossed US universities arsenic Israel continues its deadly attacks connected Gaza.

In caller months, national officials person detained galore students for their anti-war activism, including Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University pupil and green-card holder who was precocious released. Others detained see Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University postgraduate who remains successful custody astatine an migration detention installation successful Louisiana.