Isra Hirsi was suspended along with two other students and they say the decision only 'galvanises the student body even more'

Three Barnard College students, including US lawmaker Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi, have been suspended for participation in an ongoing Gaza solidarity protest encampment at Columbia University in New York City.

The suspension of the three students came as university administrators called on the New York Police Department (NYPD) to dismantle the tents that had been set up earlier on Wednesday.

Several students told MEE that heavily armed police dressed in riot gear entered the university lawns on Thursday to tear down the 50-plus tents. By late Thursday afternoon, the camps were gone and dozens of students had been arrested.

The developments on Thursday followed the revelations that three students - Isra Hirsi, 21, along with Maryam Iqbal, 18, and Soph Dinu, 21 - had received letters earlier in the day informing them they had been suspended, effective immediately, due to refusing to pay heed to calls to end their protest.

  • capital@lemmy.world
    21·
    7 months ago

    If your neighbor constantly shot at you, you’d build a wall between your houses too.

    But Gaza has another boarder. Does Egypt participate in making Gaza a concentration camp?

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      14·
      7 months ago

      If someone invades your land and kills your family you shoot them indeed. Which is what Palestinians do.

      Israel controls the Egypt border so yes. Weird you bring that up.

      • capital@lemmy.world
        21·
        7 months ago

        The Egyptian-controlled Rafah crossing is Gaza’s main lifeline to the outside world that is not run by Israel.

        https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/why-gazas-rafah-border-crossing-matters-why-egypt-is-keeping-it-shut-2023-10-17/

        For someone who seems to like to portray a good understanding of the situation this seems like a huge oversight. Or were you bullshitting me?

        So in light of this information, how is it possible to make Gaza into an open air prison or concentration camp when they don’t control the whole thing?

        What’s stopping Palestinians from ending their crusade to kill all Jews and just use the aid money for actually improving their situation (imagine if Hamas allowed this)?

          • capital@lemmy.world
            21·
            7 months ago

            Because they stand to lose the most when Hamas brings in weapons. Stop acting confused.

            The IDF isn’t stopping them from importing school building materials. You’re not actually this dense.

            • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
              14·
              7 months ago

              So why is Biden asking israel to lift the blockade? Not Egypt?

              Every human rights organisation and NGO and Country in the world claims israel is blocking all aid and here you are here saying the opposite.