Pro-Palestinian student groups described the students who have occupied Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall since early Tuesday as an “autonomous” subgroup of those involved in the encampment that had overtaken the Ivy League campus’ West Lawn.
Student groups, including Columbia Student Apartheid Divest and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, said they are not specifically organizing the occupation of the academic building. But the groups say those inside intend to remain there until the university concedes to demands centered on divesting its endowment from companies that they contend are profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza.
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