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(OSV News) — Recently, Columbia University in New York has become the epicenter of U.S. college protests and encampments demanding an end to U.S. support of Israel, now at war with Hamasfollowing that group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on approximately 22 locations in Israel.
Some 1,200 were killed in Israel during the ambush, with Hamas members taking 253 Israeli hostages and — after several releases and rescues — some 130 remaining in captivity, at least 34 of whom are believed dead. Multiple accounts of sexual violence by Hamas members against Israeli females have been reported.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, more than 34,500 have been killed in Gaza in the ensuing war, and the ensuing humanitarian crisis has left the Middle East “on the verge of the abyss,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
On Columbia’s campus, a two-week standoff between protesters and the school culminated in protesters’ occupying and vandalizing an academic building April 30, with university president Minouche Shafik, backed by administrators, contacting law enforcement to clear the building after requests for voluntary disbandment went unheeded. Close to 110 were arrested, adding to the 100 detained following an April 18 effort to disband the encampment. University officials and law enforcement have stated that outside activists had led the building takeover.
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Some 1,200 were killed in Israel during the ambush, with Hamas members taking 253 Israeli hostages and — after several releases and rescues — some 130 remaining in captivity, at least 34 of whom are believed dead. Multiple accounts of sexual violence by Hamas members against Israeli females have been reported.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, more than 34,500 have been killed in Gaza in the ensuing war, and the ensuing humanitarian crisis has left the Middle East “on the verge of the abyss,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
On Columbia’s campus, a two-week standoff between protesters and the school culminated in protesters’ occupying and vandalizing an academic building April 30, with university president Minouche Shafik, backed by administrators, contacting law enforcement to clear the building after requests for voluntary disbandment went unheeded. Close to 110 were arrested, adding to the 100 detained following an April 18 effort to disband the encampment. University officials and law enforcement have stated that outside activists had led the building takeover.
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Amid protests, chaplain calls students to walk in the light of the Gospel
Recently, Columbia University in New York has become the epicenter of U.S. college protests and encampments demanding an end to U.S. support of Israel, now at war with Hamas following that group's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on approximately 22 locations in Israel. OSV News asked Father Roger L...
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