Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Undeterred by Columbia University 's sanctioning of a crackdown by the New York Police Department in which at least 108 people were arrested on Thursday for protesting Israel 's war on Gaza, dozens of students continued to camp out on the campus' West Lawn Friday as solidarity protests cropped up at other schools across the country.
At the impromptu rally at UNC, students chanted, 'No justice, no peace!' The solidarity actions came a day after Columbia president Minouche Shafik authorized the police to dismantle an encampment set up by dozens of students. Shafik testified before a Republican-controlled U.S. House committee on Wednesday where the focus was antisemitism on the school's campus, and admitted she has not witnessed anti-Jewish protests at Columbia since Israel began its assault on Gaza last October.
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