Pro-Palestinian students stage sit-in at Barnard College to protest expulsions

Dozens of pro-Palestinian student demonstrators fill the hallway leading to Barnard College dean Leslie Grinage’s office in New York on Wednesday. Photograph: Marco Postigo Storel

A group of pro-Palestinian student protesters stormed a Barnard College building on Wednesday to protest against the expulsion last month of two students who interrupted a university class on Israel.

The demonstrators, who numbered in the dozens, staged a sit-in outside the office of Barnard’s dean, Leslie Grinage, in the college’s Milbank Hall, the Columbia Spectator reported.