YEMEN Press Agency

Pro-Palestine protests organized in Columbia University

SANAA, May 08 (YPA) – Dozens of protesters stood on tables, banged drums, and held up pro-Palestinian signs in the reading room of Columbia University’s main library on Wednesday, in one of the largest demonstrations on campus since the student protest movement erupted last year against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Videos and photos on social media showed the protesters, most wearing masks, holding signs reading “Strike for Gaza” and “Liberated Zone” beneath chandeliers in the Lawrence A. Wayne Reading Room in Butler Library.

Columbia University’s Board of Regents is negotiating with the U.S. administration after it canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants to the university in March.

A student organization representing the protesters said on social media that university security assaulted demonstrators and that activists refused to show ID to officials carrying out a “military arrest.”

New York Mayor Eric Adams said in a television interview that Columbia University officials had requested assistance and that the New York Police Department had sent personnel to the campus.

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