The protests were over the expulsion of two Columbia students who went into a Jewish studies class and starting handing out anti-Semitic pamphlets. So, the Occupy Barnard group was protesting punishment for anti-Semitism. Like I mentioned, the 'pro-Palestine' protests are often actually just anti-semitism/pro-Hamas protests.
The students, who haven’t been publicly identified, had already been slapped with suspensions in the wake of the Jan. 21 caught-on-camera saga that erupted when keffiyeh-clad agitators barged…
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For American citizens? Absolutely. For non-citizens - nope. No reason to keep anti-Semitic, terrorist supporters here, IMO. Those are the people who become radicalized and end up killing runners in the Boston Marathon.