Columbia University responded to protesting students by suspending them.

According to Reuters, after pro-Palestinian protesting students refused to collect the tents set up on the campus of Columbia University, the university authorities started suspending the students.

This action of Columbia University started when the student organization “Ivy League / 8 famous private American universities) announced in a statement that the negotiations to end the sit-in had reached a deadlock.

Nemat Minoosh Shafiq, the president of Columbia University, announced in a statement that after several days of negotiations between the organizers of the student protests and the university authorities, the administration failed to convince the protesters to collect the tents. Protesting students have started an unprecedented sit-in in massive protest against the Zionist regime’s encroachment on the Gaza Strip.

According to a Reuters report, Columbia University has set a deadline to collect the tents by sending a warning letter to protesting students. Also, the protesting students are required to sign a form that stipulates that their participation in the protests will lead to their suspension and finally their disqualification to finish the semester.

“As part of the next phase of efforts to ensure campus security, we have begun suspending students,” said Ben Chang, a Columbia University spokesman.

Despite these threats, protesting students have said that they will not hold a protest unless the university authorities fulfill their three demands: sanctions and non-investment in Zionist institutions, transparency in the financial affairs of the university, and the retention and acquittal of professors and students who They were fired for participating in the protests.

Several days ago, hundreds of pro-Palestinian students protested, sat down, and gathered in universities across the United States to condemn the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip and the genocide of Palestinians in this strip, and with “Chafieh” They organized protest rallies in the corners of the university campuses. Slogans with the theme “Disclosure! Boycott!” were being chanted.