Columbia University anti-Israel protesters block media access to encampment
On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra was on the ground at Columbia University as anti-Israel protesters continued their demonstration on campus.
Hundreds of students, faculty and outside agitators have set up an encampment featuring a large number of tents on the campus grounds as they call on the university to divest from any company linked to Israel among other demands.
Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University bar @EzraLevant from entering their encampment because he's a journalist.
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) April 26, 2024
"I don't actually know why you're filming me," says one of the demonstrators.https://t.co/iAWKHLzEBZ pic.twitter.com/uj4NL3WCEm
On Tuesday evening, police moved in and arrested over 100 anti-Israel protesters, some of whom were occupying a university building and barricading its entrances.
Speaking about the demonstrators, Ezra said, "By far, the vast majority of protesters here at Columbia and at the Fashion Institute of Technology and other U.S. campuses — they are not Palestinian."
"They are not Arab, they are not Muslim. In fact many of them are old stock Americans to use the phrase. They're just woke. And by woke I mean they believe in critical race theory and critical theory in general, and a Marxism that's transposed not just on gender and race, but in general the oppressed vs the oppressors."
Over 100 protesters were arrested as NYPD officers cleared the Columbia University campus of a 'destructive mob' in a major operation.
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Ezra went on to say, "They see Israel as the oppressor and Palestinians as the oppressed. And tomorrow it'll be a climate battle. And the week after that it'll be a transgenderism issue....they are for want of a better term, communists who want to tear down America and all its systems."
Anti-Israel protests have erupted across U.S. university campuses in recent weeks, with police being forced to quell a number of illegal demonstrations around the country.
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