Columbia Students: Protests Are About Palestine, Anti-Semitism Accusations Are a Distraction

One week into the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, students called a press conference on the campus lawn in front of the President’s House to address accusations in the media that the protests are antisemitic. Students say the attacks pure slander meant to distract from the real objectives of their movement: to bring the world’s attention to the genocide in Gaza and to make Columbia divesting from Israel inevitable.