Several students walked out of Hillary Clinton’s Columbia University class Wednesday, joining demonstrators in the building lobby for an anti-Israel protest.
Clinton was giving a two-hour lecture on women’s involvement in peace processes but was interrupted at about the halfway point when roughly 30 of the 300 attendees stood up and left, according to the New York Times.
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The students were reportedly doing so in protest of the university’s handling of the war in Israel’s fallout on campus. Many of the protesting students had signed a letter after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel that said, “The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties undeniably lies with the Israeli extremist government.”
Following its dissemination, watchdog group Accuracy in Media sent mobile billboards to the campus, showcasing the names and photographs of signatories. The billboard labeled them “Columbia’s Leading Antisemites.”
The protesters in Columbia’s International Affairs Building during Clinton’s lecture believe this amounts to “doxxing.” The demonstrators are re …
Hillary Clinton’s Columbia students walk out of class in anti-Israel protest
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