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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Anvee Bhutani

Tensions simmer – but don’t boil over – as Columbia students return to campus

Columbia staff and security speak to pro-Palestinian students who are performing a sit-in
Columbia staff and security speak with pro-Palestinian students at a sit-in to protest against Hillary Clinton, who is teaching there, in New York on Wednesday. Photograph: Adam Gray/Reuters

Columbia University students returned to campus this week under the specter of the mass protests that disrupted campus life last semester. But while actions against the Gaza war continue, the first days of class saw little of the last school year’s chaos.

On Wednesday, a group of about 30 students gathered for a sit-in protest outside a class Hillary Clinton teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs building, chanting “intifada revolution” and “Zionists not welcome here”.

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