WATCH: Masked terror sympathizers intensify hate-fueled fury on first day of classes at NY university

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From Fox News: Masked anti-Israel protesters are demonstrating on Tuesday outside of one of the entrances to Columbia University, chanting, “Free Palestine!” and holding signs urging the Ivy League school to “divest from death” as students are trying to get to their first day of classes.

The demonstrations come after a series of protests rocked the New York City-based university this past spring, which generated worldwide media attention and more than 100 arrests. The anti-Israel activity also comes just days after Hamas killed six hostages, including 23-year-old Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Hamas had been holding them captive – and continues to hold nearly 100 others – since they carried out terror attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

At least one protester was captured on video being arrested on Tuesday while other demonstrators were observed pushing barricades and getting into a scuffle. A second male individual then was taken into custody outside Barnard College, which is across the street from Columbia.

The demonstrations began as peaceful, with protesters walking around in a circle on a sidewalk near one of Columbia’s entrances in Upper Manhattan.

The Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine announced their protest on social media and called for students to join it.

“Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. There is no business as usual during a genocide. Join us & @ColumbiaBDS RIGHT NOW,” the wrote.

In a statement, the group then made their demands, along with a blatant threat:

We refuse to live in a world where the mass murder of Palestinians is normal, acceptable, and profitable. Columbia University is complicit in genocide. Their investments in weapons manufacturers & defense contractors, companies such as Lockheed Martin, are fueling the genocide.

As we begin our new semester, students in Gaza have no universities to return to. Instead of listening to the student body, Columbia University is doubling down. We will not stop & we will not rest until @Columbia divests from apartheid and genocide. This is just the beginning.

The National Students for Justice in Palestine posted a video of Columbia’s Alma Mater statue which the mob had vandalized with red paint, along with their demands: “Divestment is not an incrementalist goal. True divestment necessitates nothing short of the total collapse of the university structure and American empire itself. It is not possible for imperial spoils to remain so heavily concentrated in the metropole and its high-cultural repositories without the continuous suppression of all populations that resist the empire’s expansion; to divest from this is to undermine and eradicate America as we know it.”

The protesters have reportedly been handing out Hamas flyers.

House Speaker Mike Johnson reacted on X, “It is the first day of class at Columbia University and the pro-Terrorist, antisemitic mob is already back. The Biden-Harris Administration should condemn this mob immediately.”

This comes after pro-Hamas activists marched through the streets of New York City on Monday.

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