Students at Columbia University learned virtually Monday after anti-Israel protesters took over the campus, prompting safety warnings to Jewish students.
“Today also serves as a reminder of the power of organizing, of what we can accomplish [when] young people, climate advocates, labor organizers and working people of all backgrounds come together to demand the future. We all deserve. It is especially important that we remember the power of young people shaping the country today,” Ocasio-Cortez said at an Earth Day event Monday with President Biden.
“Of all days as we once again witness the leadership of those peaceful student-led protests on campuses like Columbia, Yale, Berkeley and many others.”
Two Jewish Columbia students told Fox News Monday morning that they had been chased off the campus as protesters shouted antisemitic phrases, including “go back to Poland.”
“An angry mob of students chased us off-campus screaming, ‘We don’t want no Zionists here. Get out of here. F Israel,’ and a bunch of other [things].”