Many Columbia University faculty members ‘furious’ over arrest of student protesters

Protests against Israel's war on Gaza are growing at Universities across the US. These are the scenes at Columbia University, where students are camping out despite dozens of arrests on Monday. Students from Massachusetts to California are calling for Universities to cut ties with US companies that profit from the war. Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey is monitoring the latest developments outside Columbia University. A lecturer at Columbia University, Professor Bassam Khawaja, says a number of faculty members are “really furious” over the arrest of more than 100 pro-Palestine protesters who gathered at the school’s campus in New York City. Khawaja said that when the university president made the decision to call the police onto campus, despite the university senate’s objection, many faculty members were “furious”. “One hundred of us came to and stood on the steps to protest this decision, [and] 54 members of the law school’s permanent faculty wrote to the president objecting to it,” he told Al Jazeera. “So, there’s quite a bit of anger among the faculty,” he said. “Anti-Semitism has no place on our campus … we need to be clear that advocating for Palestinian rights is not itself anti-Semitic,” he added. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #NewYork #NYU #ColumbiaUniversity #NYUnivesity #YaleUniversity #HarvardMIT #Gaza #GazaGenocide #NYPD #FreePalestine #PalestineSolidarityProtests #GazaSolidarityProtests #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow #IsraelWarOnGaza #WarOnGaza