Campus encampment rebuilt after more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University

demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus

Police in Riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. The protesters were calling for the school to divest from corporations they claim profit from the war in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP

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More than 100 students at Columbia University were arrested on Thursday after setting up a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus’s Butler Lawns, which are designated zones for student protests by Columbia’s own policies.

The encampment, organized by the Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition (CUAD), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), aimed to protest what they call the university’s “continued financial investment in corporations that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and military occupation of Palestine,” as per CUAD’s news release.

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