An on-campus tent encampment was also removed.
More than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University were arrested Thursday afternoon and an on-campus tent encampment was removed after the school's president gave the New York Police Department the green light to clear the protesters, officials said.
She added, "I have always said that the safety of our community was my top priority and that we needed to preserve an environment where everyone could learn in a supportive context."Around 1:30 p.m. ET, police moved in and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, placing their hands in zip ties and escorting them to buses. Other protesters chanted "Shame!" and "Let them go.
Earlier Thursday, Hirsi said she was among several students suspended from Columbia University for participating in pro-Palestinian protests -- a development that emerged a day after her mother and other members of the House Committee on Education and the WorkforceHirsi, the daughter of the Minnesota representative, one of three Muslims in Congress, said on the social media platform X that she was one of three students suspended by the Ivy League college due to her involvement in the protests.
The Apartheid Divest coalition, according to its website, is demanding the university "divest its stocks, funds, and endowment from companies that profit from the State of Israel's violations of international law and Palestinian human rights through its ongoing system of settler colonialism, military occupation, and apartheid.
"This notice is a final request from the University that you immediately cease your participation in this encampment and leave the campus," the school's letter to the protesters said. "Columbia University is one of the worst of those hotbeds and we've seen too little, far too late done to counter that and protect students and staff," Foxx said. "Columbia stands guilty of gross negligence at best and, at worst, has become a platform for those supporting terrorism and violence against the Jewish people."
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