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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Renewed Protests at Columbia, as Students Return to Campus

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As colleges begin the fall term, students at Columbia University are met by another round of disruptive protests against Israel. Have administrators learned any lessons from this spring's campus chaos? Plus, new reports at Columbia and Stanford find pervasive antisemitism, while UCLA won't appeal a judge's ruling that it must guarantee equal access for Jewish students. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

0:20.0

this is Potomac Watch. Columbia University begins classes amid another round of anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League

0:30.5

Institution and at least two arrests.

0:33.2

Is this a taste of what's to come or have university presidents and administrators learned

0:37.9

something from this Springs campus madness about drawing clear lines and sticking to them.

0:43.2

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:46.4

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGurn and editorial board member

0:51.2

Manet Uquway Berua.

0:53.0

Protest at Columbia University in New York might have been the highest profile of any college

0:58.1

encampment this spring culminating in the seizing of Hamilton Hall by activists and agitators and then the school's

1:05.3

decision to call in the New York Police Department. Well with the fall

1:09.2

semester beginning this week the protesters are back though not as yet in the same kind of force as

1:14.8

this spring. On Tuesday Columbia closed some entrances it was limiting access to

1:21.0

campus to students and staff and authorized guests.

1:25.0

The New York Post says that the NYPD arrested two people.

1:28.6

Protesters screaming things like Columbia, your hands are red, don't cross the picket line, we must honor Palestine.

1:36.1

There's a statue inside campus called the Alma Mater.

1:39.6

The New Year Post has it dates back to the 1900s and had been vandalized with red paint by

1:45.0

noon. The paper spoke to one freshman who is going to miss his first class

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