Columbia University student radicals abandoned their plans to launch an anti-Israel encampment Thursday afternoon after the Ivy League school warned that participants could face disciplinary actions, including arrest. Instead, agitators pushed protesters to join unrest elsewhere in New York.
During one of those protests, at City College of New York, police pepper sprayed keffiyeh-clad students clashing with law enforcement. Radicals there, about a mile from Columbia’s main campus, had established a “liberated zone,” while dozens of additional agitators gathered outside the campus gates and taunted police.
🚨: Earlier this afternoon, NYPD pepper sprayed a group of anti-Israel agitators at the City College of New York, located just over a mile away from Columbia’s main campus. pic.twitter.com/MFDm4XfUP8
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 24, 2025
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