Blitz Bureau
NEW YORK: A pro-Palestinian protest unfolded at Barnard College in New York City on February 26, where a small group “forcibly entered” a campus hall and are alleged to have physically assaulted a school employee, NBC News reported quoting college officials.
A sit-in demonstration was organised at Barnard’s Office of the Deans to protest the expulsion of two Barnard students last week over allegations of “disrupting” a Columbia University class on Israeli history a month earlier, according to the protest group Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
Barnard College is an independent women’s college affiliated with Columbia in which students can take courses at both schools. During the protest, a small group of masked demonstrators “forcibly entered Milbank Hall” and “physically assaulted a Barnard employee, sending them to the hospital,” Robin Levine, Barnard’s vice-president for strategic communications, said in a statement, according to the NBC report.
New York police said they responded to the vicinity of West 120 Street and Broadway and found a 41-year-old man who said he was “shoved by numerous individuals and complained of pain about the body,” the NBC report said.
