{"id":1231,"date":"2024-06-20T00:19:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T00:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2024-06-20T00:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T00:19:28","slug":"protests-in-universities-i-had-a-front-row-seat-to-the-liberated-zone-madness-at-columbia-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/protests-in-universities-i-had-a-front-row-seat-to-the-liberated-zone-madness-at-columbia-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Universities -I had a front-row seat to the \u2018liberated zone\u2019 madness at Columbia University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Columbia University \u2014 supposedly New York City\u2019s most prestigious college \u2014 has descended into absolute chaos in the name of Palestinian liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, I watched as NYPD officers in riot gear cleared a makeshift \u201cliberated zone\u201d encampment where students had pitched tents to protest Columbia\u2019s \u201ccomplicity\u201d in genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, around 100 anti-Israel protesters\u00a0were arrested\u00a0\u2014\u00a0one for repeatedly\u00a0hitting a cop, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The campus was closed to the public, but because I\u2019m a part-time student at Columbia, I got a front-row seat to the madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my way into the locked-down quad, I passed dozens of NYPD officers standing by as protesters unaffiliated with the university shouted \u201cIntifada revolution!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One young demonstrator was bickering with a cop about why her CUNY ID card didn\u2019t get her past the security checkpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/18\/us-news\/i-had-a-front-row-seat-to-protest-madness-at-columbia-university\/#\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University &mdash; supposedly New York City&rsquo;s most prestigious college &mdash; has descended into absolute chaos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}