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Professor and activist Marc Lamont Hill is weighing in on the pro-Palestine protests on the Columbia campus, saying current antisemitic acts are the work of some unhealthy apples, and never nearly all of college students.
We obtained the previous CNN commentator and present CUNY professor Tuesday on “TMZ Live,” the place he shared his observations from the demonstrations … which have led to a whole lot of scholar arrests, but additionally numerous others feeling unsafe.
Based on Marc — who’s a former Columbia professor — many of the protests he is noticed have been peaceable, with college students merely talking out in opposition to Israel’s actions in its battle with Hamas.
Nonetheless, many Jewish college students and college have been threatened — some have even been barred from campus for his or her security — and Marc was fast to slam any hateful rhetoric from protestors as “deplorable.”
Whereas he staunchly helps the scholars’ proper to protest, he factors out free speech doesn’t suggest they’ll create a campus local weather the place others really feel scared.
He does emphasize this is not the norm on campus, not in his expertise — however, nonetheless, Columbia has moved to digital studying because of rising security considerations amid the anti-Israel protests.
HISTORIC second at Columbia College: a MASSIVE college walkout in solidarity with college students advocating for Palestine ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
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That being mentioned, Marc insists many of the college students are there in hopes of ending the battle, and are usually not calling for extra Hamas terrorist acts like Oct. seventh — as some protesters have shockingly performed.
