5. On April 18, 2024, a group of these extreme demonstrators at Columbia began
occupying a centrally located section of campus they call the “Liberated Zone” where they
erected a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” with more than 60 tents and have actively blocked
Jewish and other students––by force, harassment, and threats of violence––who do not share
their views from traversing the campus and attending classes. Despite Columbia’s repeated
requests for the encampment to be removed, they have thus far refused and instead have called
for the encampment to grow.
6. Since its formation, the encampment has been the center of round-the-clock
harassment of Jewish students, who have been punched, shoved, spat upon, blocked from
attending classes and moving freely about campus, and targeted by pro-terrorist hate speech––
both verbal and in written form on massive banners and signs––with statements such as: “Death
to the Jews”; “Long live Hamas”; “Globalize the Intifada2”; “there is only one solution, Intifada
revolution” (invoking Hitler’s “final solution” of killing all Jews); “Hamas we love you.
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